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Brenda J. Linert

I hope everyone is ready for some football

By the time you read this, week one of high school football, incredibly, already will be in the books. High school football kicked off last week with several games to “preview” the season Thursday night, followed by the regular exciting Friday and Saturday night games under the lights, as ...

There’s no room for boxing in baseball

Other than TV news, sporting events generally are among the few things that blare from the living room TV screen in my home. I frequently comment to my husband about how lucky we are to have a common love of sports. If we didn’t, come game day (i.e., every day), things could get mighty ...

‘A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies’

By the time you are reading this, I already will have returned (God willing) from a trip down South to visit dear friends with whom my husband and I get together about once a year. Together, there are six of us — three couples — who became friends decades ago. New technology — Facebook ...

Enjoy the summer heat but be smart about it

I hate weather stories. Allow me to clarify. I don’t hate the kind of weather stories that involve news reports on floods or tornadoes or bomb cyclone snow storms. Rather, I hate weather stories that say, basically, “It’s hot!” in the middle of July. Or that say, “It’s really ...

Journalist brutally beaten in Russian province

It’s impossible to believe it was just a coincidence that a prominent Russian investigative reporter somehow came upon assailants that left her brutally beaten in Chechnya the day she and her attorney arrived there to attend the trial of a mother of two local activists who have challenged ...

Congress, not president, legislates and allocates

The U.S. Supreme Court in recent weeks put an abrupt stop to President Joe Biden’s promise to write off many student loans that Americans have borrowed but not yet paid back. Americans are in stark disagreement about whether or not writing off loans at taxpayers’ expense is the correct ...