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How do you know?
By Nancy Ford A not-small earthquake hitting Manhattan. A major eclipse darkening most of America. Nationwide, an ominous redux of armed troops confronting college students protesting U.S. involvement in an
WHAT A WORLD
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Holy crap. Literally
By Nancy Ford First things first: I’m sorry. It truly was my intention to write this month’s column about something other than Donald Trump. Anything other than Donald Trump. Sweet
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LEGGO MY EMBRYO | Alabama scrambles to clean up latest assault on families
By Nancy Ford By now, you’ve likely heard about Alabama’s recent challenge to Florida to claim the title of Most Shamelessly Stupid Freaking State in this whole dang nation. On
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Sticks and stones and what a word is story headline
By Nancy Ford My parents, rest their much-missed souls, had some pretty stringent rules my siblings and I were expected to follow as we were growing up. “Don’t torment your
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Make the Happy New Year even happier
By Nancy Ford Happy New Year to all our dear MONTROSE STAR readers! I trust everybody had a wonderful holiday season, and that we all are ready to see what
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2023: The Year in Review, Part 2
By Nancy Ford When we last met, we took a look back at some of the best, worst, funniest, scariest and generally most noteworthy episodes of the first six months
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2023: The Year in Review, Part 1
By Nancy Ford As I’ve said at this time of every year for the last 35 years (please sing along if you know the words), “What a year, what a
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Feel free to drag it up for Halloween
By Nancy Ford Don’t look now, but the highest of High LGBTQ Holy Days is already upon us. Happy Halloween! Time to look deep into your closet, push aside your
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Where’s Melania?
By Nancy Ford While temperatures consistently top out at 100+ degrees throughout our region, this scorching, unrelenting, drought-inducing weather takes a back seat to the hottest question Americans have been
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The culture war drags on
By Nancy Ford Brethren and sistren, right here in the good ol’ U.S. of A-mazing Grace, another group of god-fearing patriots has come under attack simply for wanting to protect