| Recent Columns |
| Support your team, scrutinize your leaders |
| By Brandon Evans | Published Thursday, September 2, 2010 |
| A blood-stained moon looms low over savage spectacle. Lined up on opposing sides, young gladiators grip grass with the teeth of their shoes. |
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| Welcome back, football season |
| By Brian Knox | Published Sunday, August 29, 2010 |
| By the time you read this, football in Wise County will have officially begun. |
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| Recent Letters to the Editor |
| All religions welcome in U.S. |
| By Ken Hughes | Published Thursday, September 2, 2010 |
| Watching the great, self-righteous, holy hullabaloo about the proposed mosque at ground zero that is neither a mosque nor at ground zero, I am reminded of the words of Jean-Francois Revel: "A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence." |
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| Liberals cause for demise |
| By Robert Taylor | Published Thursday, September 2, 2010 |
| In response to the letter from Mr. Hughes: Your rant was about immigrants and the true, God-fearing Americans who understand what these illegals are doing to this country, who oppose the invasion of our country from Mexico. Nobody is against legal immigration. It's the illegals that we are opposed to. Why can't you liberals understand this? |
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| Fancy signs are a waste |
| By Tad Billmire | Published Sunday, August 29, 2010 |
| One thing most Americans would agree on, is that we are all tired of government waste. Waste, is exactly what I thought when I read in the Messenger about Decatur ISD spending $100,000 on fancy electronic signs for each campus. |
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| A stranger's kindness touched family |
| By Paul Walmsley | Published Sunday, August 29, 2010 |
| I'd like to offer a very heartfelt thank you to the anonymous person who picked up my family's dinner tab at Chili's in Decatur last Friday night. |
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| Thanks for help after the accident |
| By Walter, Cindy and Ali Wood | Published Sunday, August 29, 2010 |
| We would like to thank the strangers and passersby as well as the paramedics and law enforcement who rendered aide to Walter at the scene of the head-on collision at the U.S. 81/287 and U.S. 380 off ramp. |
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| Nation descended from immigrants |
| By Ken Hughes | Published Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
| Bigotry shows its ugly face in many disgusting and revolting forms. Beyond the racial context which, in view of America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution, is troubling enough in its own right, and with which the word is normally associated in America, there's ethnic, sexual, religious and socioeconomic bigotry still being peddled in America into the 21 century. |
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| Research Jefferson's beliefs |
| By Robert Cox | Published Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
| Every time a letter is written or someone makes a comment about America being a Christian nation, the anti-Christian faction always resorts to Thomas Jefferson, the writer of the Constitution, as an anti-Christian founder who wanted nothing to do with Christianity. |
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| Thanks for the help |
| By DHS Senior Class Officers | Published Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
| The DHS Class of 2011 would like to thank all of the Decatur High School teachers, administrators and parents for all their hard work toward our senior retreat. |
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| RARE RAINY DAY - Parts of Wise County received several inches of rain yesterday and overnight as thunderstorms rolled through the area. The Wednesday afternoon storm caused some damage, including a report of a powerline down on Hitt Street in Boyd. Minor flooding was also reported in parts of Decatur, including on U.S. 380 near U.S. 81/287. Weatherwatchers in Rhome and Newark were activated around 5:15 to be on the lookout for possible tornadic activity. Rainfall totals included 4.19 inches in Decatur, 1.35 in Alvord, 1 in Runaway Bay and 0.8 in Chico. The rain has moved out of the area, and today's forecast calls for temperatures reaching the mid-90s before turning cooler tomorrow. |
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| Sisters Kaley and Megan Engstrom pose at the family's racetrack, Kam Kartway, in Rhome. The girls hope to be on national television in their own reality show. |
| Photo by Joe Duty |
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| Eagles try for second straight victory |
| Bridgeport welcomes back familiar foe |
| Panthers look to keep rolling |
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