2011-06-01

FAWN CALLS FISHPOND LAKE HOME —



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Raising Sussex chicks fun, hard



Hello all. I hope you are doing well and had a safe holiday weekend. We are all doing well. Hopefully it will last for a little while this time. I don’t have much time to write tonight and I don’t have too much to share, but no news is good news, right? Blair Branch The family gathered at Mom and […]

Services held for Tiffany Maggard



Tiffany Daryl Sparkman Maggard, 23, of Stinnett, died May 25 in a plane crash in Unaka, N.C. A daughter of Phillip Darrell and Maylynn Sparkman of Pippa Passes, she was a student at Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College. She was a granddaughter of the late Betty June Gray, and Norma Lee Sparkman, and a niece of the late Jimmy […]

Political Cartoon



Privatization: The road to hell



Billionaires are different from you and me, for obvious reasons, including the fact that they buy much pricier baubles than we do. A sleek car costing $100,000? Why, for them, that’s just an easy impulse purchase. A few million bucks for a Matisse original? Go ahead — it’ll liven up the hallway. How about throwing a fat wad of cash […]

Our imagination deficit



WASHINGTON While the United States remains utterly frozen in a debate about budget deficits and all the things that government shouldn’t do, other countries are marrying public and private resources to make themselves stronger and more competitive. While the United States is not even sure we should have gone halfway toward providing health insurance to all of our citizens, other […]

Does he insist you change your name?



For years, a male reader who disagrees with everything I write has left voice messages, which always open with this: “Hey, Mrs. Connie Schultz Brown.” If you look at my byline, you’ll note that my name ends at Schultz. Brown is my husband’s last name. For me, taking my husband’s name would feel like a cattle branding. Fortunately, he never […]

You, too, can be a critic



On the prowl for a good dinner in a Florida town we didn’t know well, I went on Yelp. Yelp is a social networking website that lets anyone review a business. One Italian restaurant looked promising, with mostly positive reviews and few grumbles. We went there, had a fine meal and told the chef-owner so. But on mentioning that we […]