Yarbrough: Some advice for the new year

Dear Cameron: Well, here we go again. To Cameron Charles Yarbrough, it’s a new year so here’s some more unsolicited advice from your great-grandpa. We have been at this quite a while, so I hope these observations have been of some value to you.

Crane: Much more still to be done

I remain a strong son of the South, the product of a Mason-Dixon marriage (Mom from Hoover, a suburb of Birmingham, Dad and the Crane family hailing from upstate New York).

Smith: The good ole days of Florida

For years, when visiting a new city, I would begin the trip by taking a Gray Line tour, which was a good way to learn about the city’s history and development. Very touristy, but very informative.

Rich: The high cost of Crisco

From the car, I toted in bags of heavy groceries. I have become my mama. Mama mostly bought staples: five-pound sacks of flour and cornmeal as well as gallon jugs of sweet milk and buttermilk.

Crane: In celebration of the non-traditional

I can’t even remember the first time I heard the phrase, but I think it was related to one of Olivia’s school meetings when we were referred to as a “non-traditional” family.

Yarbrough: Gender identity question engenders conflicting emotions

I am so conflicted these days. I haven’t been my usual sharp incisive self. Even the RITNOs (Republicans in Trump’s Name Only) must be wondering why I haven’t jerked their pompous, self-righteous chains recently.

Rich: The South I’ve met

Most of the best stories I’ve heard come forth from the South. The most memorable people I have met, by far, are Southerners. I’m a Yankee and moved here by way of California.

Yarbrough: Here comes 2024

Wait a minute! What was that that just blew by me? It looks like 2023 but it has gone so fast I hardly saw it. Okay, I know we have a few days left in the year, but by the time I write this and you read it, it will probably be July. Or at least it seems that way. I remember sitting in Ms.

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Letter to the Editor: Touting Trump in 2024

Dear Editor, I am a firm believer that at this point in the history of our country and the world, Donald Trump is the right person to get us out of what looks like a looming disaster: rampant inflation, wars, an overrun at the border, not to mention encouraging and supporting a justice system that...