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article: MURTAGH COLUMN: Equal Rights Day revisited
Zona Gale, rise up. People will be gathering to do you homage on your special day in Portage on Aug. 16 in the annual celebration of your life and legacy. May you continue to find your eternal peace, Zona, but your work on behalf of social justice for all, women in particular, has not been finished since you left us Dec. 27, 1938.
Posted in Opinion, Murtagh on Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:00 pm. Updated: 11:51 pm.
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article: MURTAGH COLUMN: Walk is a mission for hope
In the midst of the despair of the falling economy, the seemingly endless wars that kill more women and children than those armed for conflict and that is diverting this country's economic base from the necessary needs of its people and the land's basic infrastructures, there still are individuals who have not lost their hopes and attempts to quell the man-made disaster called war.
Posted in Opinion, Murtagh on Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:45 pm. Updated: 11:28 am.
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article: MURTAGH COLUMN: Are bigger trucks coming?
Another chapter in the history book about Portage will be completed soon. What had been a yawning chasm in Portage's principal downtown street, one that exposed the city's entrails of utility pipes, now has been filled and paved once again. Barriers are still at each end of the completed downtown blocks, but a few errant cars had been seen along the curb, probably delighting in the easy choice of parking spots.
Posted in Opinion, Murtagh on Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:15 pm.
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article: MURTAGH COLUMN: People who live in glass houses...
Not only did Benjamin Franklin fly a kite in a thunderstorm, with a key fastened to its string as a way to prove to the world that lightning was really electricity, but he was also an outstanding statesman, signer of several key documents of American history, a cabbage grower, soapmaker and book publisher.
Posted in Opinion, Murtagh on Thursday, August 7, 2008 10:30 pm.
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article: MURTAGH COLUMN: Had there been a message?
"That is Zona thanking you," said My Other as we watched the flight of a lovely medium-sized black butterfly, banded with blue, as it hovered above, and then rested on each of the newly washed gray stone horizontal gravestones.
Posted in Opinion, Murtagh on Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:30 pm. Updated: 3:41 pm.
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article: MURTAGH COLUMN: Looking for a happy someone
Looking for someone who is happy is quite a task, indeed. Someone along life's way had said that a giant step toward feeling happiness would be to know others better and to judge life's events more realistically. It also sounds like good advice to those who want to make a wise choice when voting.
Posted in Opinion, Murtagh on Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:00 pm.
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article: MURTAGH COLUMN: Oh where, oh where can they be?
It is only 60-some days until the Big Day, Nov. 4. It will be a time when the residents of the White House will start to move on and out. The move will be accomplished without a rented U-Haul and help from the neighbors to carry the heavy stuff.
Posted in Opinion, Murtagh on Thursday, September 4, 2008 9:15 pm. Updated: 3:11 pm.
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article: MURTAGH COLUMN: It's costume time once again
Is it coincidence, or a convenience, to have Halloween and the presidential election only four days apart?
Posted in Opinion, Murtagh on Thursday, September 11, 2008 2:05 pm.
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article: MURTAGH COLUMN: You don’t kill your way out
A common call of today's presidential aspirants, who are racing toward the Nov. 4 finish line, is a mutual battle cry against terrorist attacks on the United States. Who would want to argue that position? Not even Ron Paul.
Posted in Opinion, Murtagh on Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:05 pm.
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article: MURTAGH COLUMN: A recognition of peace
While dashing through the lobby of Portage's Written Word Treasury, otherwise known as the Portage Public Library, my step was halted at the sight of the informational display in the center of the floor.
Posted in Murtagh, Columns, Opinion on Thursday, September 25, 2008 11:15 am. Updated: 11:36 pm.
