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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Buying Stocks with Credit Cards, Loans, or Home Equity Should Be Illegal

I am no expert on consumer finance, but I believe that purchasing stocks using credit card cash advances and loans along with home equity lines of credit should be...

BOB BROWN: On the Importance of Fathers

It is easy to become a father. It is difficult to become and stay a...

BECKY MAUPIN: More Than a Feeling: The Power of a Mother’s Intuition

There’s a guiding voice inside every mother. Sometimes it’s loud and urgent—the feeling that something’s wrong,...

FRED FIRST: To Market, To Market

Reinventing myself: again. And doing it solo. I hardly know where to start. So I won’t....

LUCKY GARVIN: The Rose and the Bower

Even though I stood well away from them in the broad doorway of our cardiac...

Caste Cast Cats Class

I believe all fishermen are created equal.  That all anglers are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. I believe fishermen should be...

Our Very Adventuresome Sarah

On  August 17th our granddaughter, Sarah Davis will be married in Helsinki, Finland. Only her parents, and her sister her husband will make the...

We Are Still A Nation of Laws

This column is not about the prosecution or the defense, nor about race, religion, ethnicity or politics. It is about coming together as a...

Some Things Just Shouldn’t Be Allowed – Dennis Garvin MD

Lucky Garvin's brother Dennis is a Urologist practicing in Salem who also possesses his brother's great gifts for writing, teaching and healing. This column...

82 Percent of Lightning Strikes Are Males (Imagine that.)

According to the National Weather Service, fishing is dangerous. A recent study examined the 238 lightning deaths in America over the past seven years...

A Grand Rebounding of Nature

Years ago, I lived for a brief time in Steubenville, Ohio, a city steeped in history and tradition. At the time, it was also...