Columns
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Northern Pike: Love or hate?
Before we get full time into outdoor columns about hunting, let me do a final end-of-summer column about fishing.
The fragility of power, and the power of the people
What a difference a day makes.
TERRY COLUMN: Experience of a Lifetime
A young baseball fan enamored with the sport, Ian Paisley asked his dad, Jim, if they could make a trip to the World Series when his favorite team finally made…
COLUMN: Silver Anniversary of Dayton Daze
For the last 25 years the community of Dayton has boosted the Chief Cliff Volunteer Fire Department and Quick Response Unit’s budget by throwing a big summer celebration.
COLUMN: Right makes might? We'll know soon enough
I am nothing if not an optimist.
COLUMN: Toilet paper with a purpose? I'm in
I love a good entrepreneurial idea, and when it benefits a nonprofit organization trying to make a difference, all the better.
Youth hunt success
Last Saturday, 16-year-old Tegan Schaper was sprawled on the prairie grass sighting her .270 rifle at a nice mule deer buck that was 440 yards away.
TERRY COLUMN: Don't look now, you could lose
Some games are easy to overlook in a long football season.
COLUMN: Dishonest media 101: 'Your bias is showing'
Two weeks ago, I wrote a column about what Donald Trump calls “the dishonest media,” and I did so because as a member of the news media myself, I feel a sense of obligation to hold my profession to the same standar…
TERRY COLUMN: Starting on a new course
This is something new.
COLUMN: Just say no to useless baby products
Our granddaughter Marlena’s first birthday is just days away, so I’m doing what any self-respecting grandma would do. I’m scouring local children’s department and toy stores to find the perfect gift.
COLUMN: 'Ring Them Bells': Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature
The announcement was as terse as any song on “John Wesley Harding,” the spare and cryptic album Bob Dylan put out in 1967 following his brush with death in a motorcycle accident:
HOWE'S FISHING: Planning for winter fishing tournaments
It’s mid-October and we have snow on the ground, lows in the 20s for the last couple of nights and a forecast that looks like we face more of the same. Sounds like it’s time for me to go do a little Florida Keys fi…
TERRY COLUMN: Lions restoring their roar
A lot has changed in a year.
GOOD NEWS: Encouraging voice a true angel
Nancy Mackin wasn’t expecting her family dinner would end with her being wheeled out on a stretcher.
COLUMN: 'Dishonest media' ratchet up the attacks
Some of the loudest cheers Donald Trump gets when he’s holding a rally is when he blasts the “dishonest media.”