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‘Draconian cuts’ take effect this week

It is basic public policy that you either have to raise taxes or reduce government services. It has ...

Opinion

The era of leaner state government

Just shy of the two-year mark of my first term in office, this is a good time to ...

Jaine Treadwell

‘Life’s too short to fish with a dead cricket’

Evidently, the man in the pickup truck in front of me had never been schooled on what to ...

Opinion

Nurses, firefighters, monster hunters…oh my!

In the past week, I’ve met about 200 area kindergarteners. Other Messenger employees met the remainder of them ...

Daniel Sutter

Attracting business requires more than low taxes

I give about a dozen presentations per year to local and regional groups on the state of the ...

Jaine Treadwell

Old folks ought to stay at home

Sitting atop Bryant-Denny Stadium with the hot sun in my face and the young man who was hawking ...

Opinion

Pike County is filled with good-hearted people

Almost every day, someone calls the newspaper with information about an effort to help a group or a ...

Daniel Sutter

Public schools: Not our children’s keepers

The Chicago teachers’ strike is serving to highlight problems faced by public school systems throughout our country. The ...

Opinion

‘No is not the answer’

Don Schofield was worried on Tuesday. The executive director of East Central Mental Health, Schofield says he knows first-hand ...

Jaine Treadwell

One horse, two riders

In my child’s heart, all I wanted was a horse. A horse of my own.

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