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Biden says there are very fine people on both sides of the Oct. 7 debate
Read moreI’m really hard on myself. Always have been. I spend a lot of time thinking about all the mistakes I’ve made in my life; all the cows I bought but shouldn’t have and the ones I should’ve bought but didn’t. Rolling a forklift over an embankment; burning my six-yearold hand on the hot exhaust stack on my dad’s Kenworth; rounding over the threads on a half million dollar compressor in the oilfields; thinking I could make a living in the cattle business without any land or money; throwing an egg at the principal’s daughter and getting kicked out of school for three days as a result. I think you get the picture.
Read moreBrian Walter’s efforts may be taking hold
Read moreAs I pulled weeds in the front yard Sunday afternoon I could hear a chain saw down the street. That sound was a reminder of downed trees being cut in the aftermath of a tornado.
Read moreThe explosion of violent and shockingly antisemitic protests on college campuses is just the latest in a series of self-inflicted black eyes for higher education in the United States. In March last year, a group of students at Stanford Law School shut down a talk by federal Judge Kyle Duncan, screaming vulgar epithets and refusing to allow him to speak. In October, the presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania embarrassed themselves in congressional hearings convened to ask about combating antisemitism on their campuses. Penn President Liz Magill resigned immediately thereafter. Harvard’s President Claudine Gay survived that controversy but resigned a few weeks later when multiple instances of plagiarism in her research were exposed.
Read moreWith less than six weeks remaining in this year’s legislative session, we’re heavily focused on crafting the state budget for Fiscal Year 2025.
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