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At least once a week I meet someone and they ask what I do. I say I am the editor of the local newspaper and I usually get one of two responses: “I didn’t know there were any newspapers left” …

For those of us that were involved in the media when Chris Koster was Cass County prosecuting attorney in the mid-1990s, there was an old joke: the most dangerous place in Cass County was between Koster and a television camera.

Early voting has started and election day is less than two weeks away and the comment I’ve heard regularly is “I have no idea what Amendments 4 and 5 mean.”

Saturday morning, I joined a fairly-large group of people to celebrate the ribbon cutting of the new golf driving range in Adrian. It was an idea of Mayor Matt Cunningham just over a year ago and through the work of the city and various businesses and organizations became a reality pretty quickly.

Well, that was certainly a Fourth of July for the books. What started and ended as a beautiful summer day was anything but beautiful midday as the winds and rain came passing through town. It was nearly as brief as it was intense, but the wake of damage left behind will be the talk of the town for years to come.

I remember when they started giving us math “word” problems in elementary school. Instead of just having to figure out some multiplication or long-division problem, they put a bunch of words in so you had to figure out what the questions were.

I decided it was time to update my blog as a new baseball season is underway, but when I looked at the existing site I saw everything from 2025 was no longer available as well as several previous …

As a general rule, editorials for the Tribune and Times are written primarily for our print publication. However, there are times which require general rules to be set aside, especially when …

This weekend, the Kansas City Royals commemorated their two World Championship teams as former players from 1985 and 2015 were on hand. Also on hand were the St. Louis Cardinals, the organization whose fans probably hate KC more than anyone else, still contending they were cheated in the 85 World Series. They can feel any way they want; we have the trophy.

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