The Tyree family recently took advantage of our state’s eagerly anticipated annual sales tax holiday on school supplies, clothing and electronics.
Editor's Note: The following is the editorial that appeared in the Dec. 8, 1941, Decatur Herald and Decatur Review:
As much as I adore my garden, by the time fall rolls around part of me is grateful for the end of the growing season.
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Monsanto’s absorption into Bayer is now official. As with all corporate mergers and acquisitions, there is some bad that comes along with the good.
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Go ahead. Admit it.
Record heat can fuel fantasies of fleeing to the north.
For the tenure of the Trump administration, the media has been treated as the enemy; the enemy of the administration, and enemy of the people.
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Editor's Note: The following is the editorial that appeared in the Dec. 8, 1941, Decatur Herald and Decatur Review:
As much as I adore my garden, by the time fall rolls around part of me is grateful for the end of the growing season.
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Go ahead. Admit it.
Record heat can fuel fantasies of fleeing to the north.
For the tenure of the Trump administration, the media has been treated as the enemy; the enemy of the administration, and enemy of the people.
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