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Here’s Henry: The Holly Jolly Food Traditions of the Holidays

More than the time spent with friends and family, wonderful gifts received or hectic Black Friday shopping, the holiday season is synonymous with food. Lots of food.  From Thanksgiving to…

Claude Column: What’s the Deal with Festivus

As you might’ve read on page nine, commercialism is more prevalent now than ever before around the holidays. The endless ads for Christmas themed mochas, people pulling out their hair…

The Murder of Olof Palme Remains Unsolved, Three Decades Later

On Feb. 28, 1986, then-Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme and his wife Lizbet attended the cinema late one night after deciding to give his bodyguards the night off. Upon…

25 Facts You Didn’t Know About Sinclair

1. In 1887, three evening classes in arithmetic, freehand and mechanical drawing were offered to working men. Classes were held in a one-room evening school.  55 men enrolled. -Dawayne Kirkman,…

Here’s Henry: Fall is the Best Season

Everything has to be a competition. Cats vs Dogs, Pepsi vs Coke, Democrat vs Republican, as long as people roam the Earth, they are going to voice their opinion about…

Claude’s Column: To Yeet or not to Yeet

Call me a stubborn old editor wound tight as a wall clock, but I believe this generation lacks the vast vocabulary of the past. Abbreviations often replace words and even…