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Santa Clarita Diet Breathes New Life Into The Genre of the Living Dead

“Santa Clarita Diet” only popped up on my radar a month or so ago with a clever, minimalist ad campaign that gave away just enough to intrigue: this is a show where Drew Barrymore eats people, and Justified’s Timothy Olyphant plays her relaxed stoner husband.

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Trump’s First Week Will Have Lasting Damage

It’s been about two weeks of President Donald Trump, and we’ve already experienced an international embarrassment with an immigration ban on passengers from seven Muslim-majority countries that had to be blocked by the Judicial branch.

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Money From Harm Or Help: The Eco Entrepreneur’s Dilemma

Between every bite and within every second of our lives comes the question of how to sustain ourselves and our families.

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Out of Words, Outside Logic

Well, it’s official: Donald Trump is the least American American president in the history of the office. He has zero concept of what this country stands for, and the last week has gone above and beyond to prove that.

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Letter to the Editor: Some Problems With the Free Press

Thomas Jefferson said “The only security of all is in a free press.” Since then we’ve added radio, television, and Internet. But can the media speak truth to power when six mega-corporations own 90 percent of American media?

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Expectedly Unexpected

Here we are, barely a week into the Trump administration, and there is already enough going on to merit an entire section of the paper, let alone a single column.

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What Creates Wind?

Northwest Arkansas received quite a lot of wind recently, and spring will bring more in the coming months.

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Secrets In Local Stone Walls

In the children’s book “Stone Wall Secrets,” Kristine and Robert Thorson write that “there are thousands of stone walls crisscrossing woods and fields as if they have been there forever.

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Repealing Obamacare: Scorched Earth Policy Isn’t Policy At All

As we enter into the unknown with Congress voting on repealing the Affordable Care Act without any mention of a replacement plan, it seems as if the country is screaming its dissent in a vacuum.

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An Unfortunately Brilliant Series

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, based on the books by Daniel Handler (pen name: Lemony Snicket) is an exercise in fantastically morose whimsy.