Columns

National Library Week

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I wish that when you opened the newspaper to this article it would be like a musical birthday card with confetti spewing out and the song “We are the Champions” playing softly in the background bec

Call me quirky

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Have you ever been dubbed “quirky”? I have. A great many times since adolescence. Perhaps it was the fact that I drank coffee at age 8.

Songs make the best stories

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When was the last time you really listened to a song and clearly heard the words? Those words were crafted by songwriters with a gift for telling a story in a few short minutes.

Though troubles come, they cannot last

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Troubles can only be measured by the people who are experiencing them. However, God’s solution is the same for everyone; His word, acceptance of His Son and obedience to the leading of His spirit.

Enjoy God and know the peace that follows

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The point and purpose of being human, says the Westminster Shorter Catechism, is “to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.” From much of what’s been written lately, it seems as though we’ve got the fi

   

New ACLU leader points to ‘urgency of now’

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Saying the country is at a “deeply, deeply disturbing” juncture, Bacardi Jackson — a veteran litigator whose civil-rights advocacy is literally in her genes — is taking the mantle as executive dire

Decades-old cases dusted off in Warren fight

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As suspended Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren runs in November to try to regain his job, a legal battle with Gov. Ron DeSantis continues playing out at a federal appeals court.