CLINTON’S HISTORY 10, 20, 30 AND 40 YEARS AGO

30 YEARS AGO• CMS football cheerleaders attended cheerleading camp on the campus of Southwestern Oklahoma State University along with 25 other squads from Oklahoma schools.Pictured were Stephanie Simon, Lane Lorez, Cylie Smith, Kelsey Knight, McKenna Meacham, Brittany Roshell, Jennifer Kendrick,...

Church sues Colorado town to be able to shelter homeless in trailers

(AP) — Behind a church surrounded by rolling prairie on the outskirts of this Colorado town sits a donated RV that Joe Ridenour called home for a year after he lost his job during the pandemic.Being able to live in the RV, he said, allowed him to avoid returning to his native Kansas City, where he...

J.D. Vance focuses on 'wisdom from the Book of Mamaw'

The young J.D. Vance was used to the melodramas surrounding his mother, Beverly Vance, with her addictions to painkillers, heroin and alcohol, as well as the chaos caused by her five marriages and countless live-in boyfriends.But his mother was trying to steer a car during one pivotal clash with...

Old age deserves dignity, respect

One of the dumbest expressions ever uttered is something along the lines of “Sixty is the new 40.” No, 60 is 60, just like 70 is 70, 80 is 80, and so on.That’s not a knock on someone feeling more youthful than their age – power to them.

Housewife questions reentry into workforce

DEAR HARRIETTE: At 36, after I’ve spent 10 years as a devoted housewife and raising our three boys, my husband’s recent job loss due to healthrelated issues has brought us to a crossroads: How can I return to work?

SNHL most common category of hearing loss

Dear Doctors: I developed sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) due to lupus in 2019. It affects high-pitched tones, and it makes it harder to hear in a crowd. It’s confusing because sometimes I am able to hear high-pitched tones. I just finished nursing school and will be working with patients soon.

Democrats rally around worst candidate

It wasn’t really a surprise that President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he will no longer be a candidate for a second term.

Shooting was real; aftermath is all theater

Friedrich Nietzsche famously wrote, “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.”That’s my fancy alibi for my initial suspicion that Donald Trump had staged last week’s assassination attempt as a kind of WWE professional wrestling stunt – a suspicion...

People make their own luck, good or bad

Ronald Reagan had it, Jimmy Carter didn’t. George H.W. Bush had it until he didn’t, and the same can be said for his successor, Bill Clinton. Joe Biden had it, lost it, regained it and lost it again.

Recognizing heat-related dangers

Dear Doctors: My landscaping business keeps me outside a lot, and my son has a job as a line cook. We both worked through heat waves last summer that made our jobs dangerous.