FEATURES & COLUMNS Can I Take It with Me?
Dr. Geyges' Guide for the Perplexed Dr. Geyges explains to a self-made man in Mobile just exactly h ow the Chinese take it with them when they go, and how to avoid legal difficulties in the Underworld.
From the Desk of Joe Vogler, Part I
The Long View, by Ross Coen In the five decades Vogler lived in the Interior, he penned dozens of white-hot missives to the local paper. He would have had some choice words for the posy-sniffers in Ester, I assure you.
Looking Forward to Mark Twain's "Buried Treasure"
A Conspiracy of Ravens, by Richard Seifert Samuel Clemens' autobiography is coming out in November. It's only been waiting to see the light of day for a century—at the great writer's explicit instructions.
Meetings Four: ECA, EVFD, JTEL, & the Ester Lump Road Service Commission
by D. Helfferich Reports on four community meetings held this last month: fundraising and truck replacement at the fire department; plowing and a spat for the road commission; a new sign for the park and maybe a stage; new committees for the library and land ownership.
The Missionary Position on Old-Fashioned Values
by Neal Matson Call me a 1956 fiscal conservative. The income tax rate then for the highest bracket was around 90 percent and nearly everyone had enough money to satisfy his needs.
No Health Rights for Us: The United States and Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Dose of Reality, by Neil Davis In 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the United nations committee that wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and proclaimed that everyone had the right to a standard of living adequate for health and well-being. How ironic that it is the US that is among the last of the 192 members of the UN to develop an effective means of providing the human right to medical care.
Poetry Race! A Snowflake, A Zombie, and Two Pink Fairies
by D. Helfferich The Green Queen ran (sort of) in the third annual Readers on the Run, a poetry/costume/literary fun run held as a benefit for the John Trigg Ester Library.
Toward North Corps: A Circumpolar Program to Help the North
by Barry S. Zellen Ottowa is intent on jump-starting Nunavut's economic development, but ironically, this has led to dependence on non-indigenous experts. A circumpolar North Corps, as extensive as the Marshall Plan in scale and enduring as the Peace Corps, is needed to catalyze the full economic and social development of the Arctic.
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