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Lamarius Jones was so bold, smart and funny that his sister and the mother of his child started trading stories about how his presence would fill up the room if he could walk through the door of the Montford apartment where he grew up.

He might demand that somebody get up and make him tacos, Jones’s sister, Dariana Rice, 25, said Thursday afternoon, sitting on a co...


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Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers:

Question: My friends were at dinner together, and we were complaining that the sale prices at Ingles were ringing up full price at the register. It happened many times. When you mention the price ringing up wrong at the register, the cashier acts exasperated. The manager t...


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Since its sale to the for-profit HCA Healthcare seven years ago, Mission Hospital has been beset by complaints about declining care. Staff have left in waves, medical specialties have vanished and patient deaths have triggered threats from regulators that the hospital could lose crucial Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements.

Amid a crescendo of public concern, one ...


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Will Rogers, who called himself the Cowboy Philosopher in his newspaper columns and stage acts, had it right when he was asked about his partisan politics: “I don’t belong to any organized political party,” he replied. “I’m a Democrat…. If people agree with each other all the time they’d be Republicans.”

Jamie Ager, a Democrat with self-described “mountain valu...


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Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers:

Question: You wrote about the lead found in the water at Glen Arden Elementary School after Helene. I saw there were mitigation efforts concerning the drinking water (presumably the water fountains), but what of the hand-washing sinks and water used for cooking? Also, how ...


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