OUR VIEW
Seatbelts really do save lives
      With so many people taking to the roads for summer vacation, remember to buckle your seatbelts when hitting the road. Here's what the National Highway Safety Administration has to say about how a crash works. Maybe those of you who don't buckle up will think about this the next time you get in yo...
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From the Editor's Desk
Fear of reprisals is insulting
Arthur McLean
      Isaw a story the other day reporting about Scottish muslims who were scared of potential backlash from the attempted bombing of Glasgow Airport. I remember seeing very similar stories after 9/11 and just about any terrorist incident the past decade.
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Community college mess unravelling
By Steve Flowers
      As the year 2007 began the biggest story brewing was the unraveling and evolution of the gigantic junior college system corruption saga. It is still evolving and the mounting evidence portends that it is a tempest in a teapot ready to explode. The obvious pilfering and abuse are brazen.
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Ramblin' Roses and Flyin' Bricks
Bermuda shorts blues
The late Earl Tucker
      July 10, 1957 ALondon man has been cured of swearing, according to the British Medical Journal. This fellow was a chronic curser and he got so bad he couldn't hold a job and his own family wouldn't go out in public with him. Now 30, he had starting swearing at the age of 9, and he would have from...
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