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As I begin my journey representing House District 59 at the state Capitol, I would like to acknowledge the outstanding and tireless efforts of Representative Mike Sanders for the last 12 years. He has set a very high standard of service that I intend to maintain in the months and years to come.
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The Christmas season is almost here but Thanksgiving is not that far in the past so perhaps it’s okay to begin considering our blessings.
Read moreIn the late 1980s, when telemarketing was at its peak, a company called our home during dinner. I picked up the phone and handed it to my dad. This is what we heard him say:
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I love nuts, bolts and hardware so much that we came real close 40 years ago to opening a hardware store in our small town. Instead we opened a stationery store and someone else opened the hardware store. We made a little money but the hardware store owner struck a gold mine and is now living on his 200-foot yacht off the coast of Greece.
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You may have seen the video of the family thrown off a United Airlines airplane because the 2-yearold daughter would not wear a mask. Though the family wore masks and the father promised to cover his daughter’s face with a mask that he placed on her face, it made no difference. Though the child was completely asymptomatic, and though it is exceedingly rare for a child to transmit COVID-19 to an adult --that is why Sweden kept its schools open all spring and summer, with its students not wearing masks -- the airline had its orders, and the flight attendant duly obeyed them.
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The kitchen table is filled with wrapping paper, ribbon, name tags and Christmas presents. The two pair of scissors and a desk-size Scotch tape dispenser are somewhere there, but disappear when I need them.
Read moreSpoehr, a retired Army lieutenant general, is director of the Center for National Defense at The Heritage Foundation.]
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