Local organizations granted funds through HILCO’s Operation Round Up® program

ITASCA – At their Jan. 12, meeting, HILCO Electric’s Trust Board voted to disburse $10,886.00 to five organizations in the HILCO service area.  These funds were donated during the fourth quarter of 2020. Grant checks were presented on Tuesday, January 12th at the Itasca HILCO office.

FAMILY MEALS COOKED WITH CONVENIENCE IN MIND

FAMILY FEATURES – Part of the fun of family meals is finding inspiration in the variety of dinner ideas you can create together.

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (February 11, 2021)

EDITORIAL: The House impeachment brief endangers freedom of speech

The brief filed by the House managers advocating for the conviction and disqualification of citizen Donald Trump contains an attack on freedom of speech for all Americans.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Cancel culture and selective outrage – welcome to the Biden/AOC world

My wife and I utterly reject the radical hypocrisy of today’s cancel culture based on cheap excuses of highly selective outage. A Bernie Sanders supporter shoots a Republican congressman at a ball field and where’s the outrage from the Left? Zilch!

Biden team resurrecting Obama’s open-borders fiasco

Once again demonstrating Democrats’ obsession with undoing all things Trump, the Biden team is unilaterally canceling US agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras that helped rein in the surge of illegal crossers at the US-Mexico border – with no plan in place for what else to do.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: And this is... the... rest of the story

Welcome to the “front porch.” Have you ever wondered what the famed Georgian native son Lewis Grizzard would have to say about the state of the union today, or what kind of assessment one of the country’s greatest voices, Paul Harvey would offer?

OUT TO PASTOR: A divided house makes a happy home

Never has our world been more divided than today. Politics, religion, sports and on and on I could go. For the most part, so many people think being divided is a negative thing. And for many people it is.

OFF MY MEDS by Les Taha (February 11, 2021)

LOCAL STUDENT UPDATE: February 11, 2021

Halle Law and Jessica Scheer of Midlothian were named to the Deans List for the Fall 2020 semester at the University of Alabama. Taylor Daniell of Ennis was named to the Dean’s List for the Fall 2020 semester at the University of Central Arkansas.