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• Nearly four years later and I’m more afraid than ever. You should be, too. – THE SHINBONE STAR

  EDITOR'S NOTE: You know you and your staff are worn out when you start digging through old material and wondering if it might deserve a rerun. I wrote this piece for my first blog as Election Day 2016...

• The next-to-impossible search for common ground – THE SHINBONE STAR

  Common ground with these assholes? I don't think so! I went to the doctor earlier this week, one of those once-a-year sessions they schedule for codgers like me to gauge our health and determine just ...

• Our mission accomplished, but there’s still some tidying up to do – THE SHINBONE STAR

  By GLENN REDUS (with DUTTON PEABODY) As the founder of this iteration of The Shinbone Star, some staff members thought it would be appropriate that I be the one to provide some kind of mission accompl...

• Just because we’re biased doesn’t mean we’re wrong – THE SHINBONE STAR

  Back in the good old days when snagging a journalism job wasn’t so much of a problem, one of the questions that always gave me pause at family reunions and cocktail parties was, “Is your newspaper a l...

• A painful choice, but at least it was still MY choice – THE SHINBONE STAR

  When my mother died, I was there to hold her hand, singing the United Methodist hymns she loved so much. Indeed, all of us were there -- dad, sisters, hospice nurse. We prayed for her to be released, ...

• Few answers on Niger, but the trouble is nobody’s even asking the questions – THE SHINBONE STAR

  Being at the back of the pack waiting in a long line to pee on the proverbial White House fire hydrant provides a certain perspective. From my unique view, it appears the current subject the big dogs ...