Trump Tax Plan By Jonathan Allen The top one percent of earners would reap the lion’s share of benefits under a new tax cut proposal unveiled by President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans this week, according to analysis by the non-partisan Tax Policy Center released recently. The estimates, which congressional Republicans criticized as unfounded, starkly contradict […]
The Mysterious Disappearance of Agatha Christie By Robert James Taylor Among the greatest mystery novelists of all time, Agatha Christie, became the most published novelist in history, outsold only by The Bible and Shakespeare; she enjoyed the highest accolades and awards an author could ever possibly achieve. One of her greatest mysteries however was
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez The Mexican-American Soldier in WWII When the United States first entered WWII in December of 1941, there were more than two and a half million people of Mexican descent living in the US, eighty-five percent of whom resided in five states: New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, California and Texas. But
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We Must Not Forget Our Past Courtesy of Phyliss Ewing (The following is an e-mail sent to me from a retired military ex-pat now living in Arizona. With his permission I am sharing it with you. PE) He wrote, “At this time, it is very important to remember a whole new meaning to what
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Reclaimed Treasures By Judy Dykstra-Brown My grandmother used to come home from her wanderings with her pockets full of little treasures she had found along the way. Cracker Jack prizes, stray rubber jacks balls, lost skate keys, jar lids, rubber heels from boots. These findings were carefully sealed away in old canning jars—preserved as
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Child Of The Month By Barb Corol Izel and her sister Kayra joined Niños Incapacitados back in 2011. Mom had just received distressing news that her husband was leaving her. She told him she was expecting another child but that did nothing to change his mind. Mom named her new daughter Izel as she said
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The Trunk Murder Mystery By Robert James Taylor Hudson River Railroad Terminal August 27th 1871. A porter was about to finish his shift, after loading the luggage bound for the evening train to Chicago when he became aware of a putrid stench that seemed to emanate from a heavy trunk that had been delivered
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On Becoming a Karaoke Singer By John Comando I stood in front of the computer screen with a microphone in my hand. It was Tuesday night – karaoke night – at Mama’s Bar. The hour was late, I had had a few too many glasses of wine, and the place was almost empty. Some
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Why Did The Chickens Cross The Road? By Liz Moulder “Speaking of Spanish,” I told my neighbor as we strolled to a restaurant, “here’s what happened to a friend of mine who just moved to Ajijic. She bought a gorgeous house near the plaza with a swimming pool nestled into the back patio, made a
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A Sneaky Twitch Of An Itch By John Thomas DoddsBook Review by Clare Gearhart Here’s a real grandparent’s delight for the Holiday Season! It’s hard to read all the way through this book without feeling the urge to scratch or rub some spot that wasn’t tingling a moment ago! Sneakily, the Twitch of an Itch,
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