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Beating the heat
      It is hot, in case you didn't know. Hotter than it has ever been. Records have been broken all over the state with temperatures soaring into the triple digits every day for the past several days.
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'Bush's Brain' quits
      In the fall of 1970, 19-yearold Karl Rove used a fake identity to break into the campaign office of Alan Dixon, who was running for state treasurer in Illinois. Mr. Rove stole Dixon's campaign letterhead, printed fake campaign flyers offering free beer, free food and girls, and distributed them at...
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Two old statesmen gone
Editor's Notes
      The great American humorist Will Rogers said all he knew was what he read in the newspapers. I'm in the newspaper business but I'm kind of like that too. Here's a few thoughts on recent news items around the state. Alabama lost two former state attorneys general in recent days who together served...
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Politics meaner today
Inside the Statehouse Steve Flowers
      I have been on a speaking tour throughout Alabama this summer talking Alabama politics with many of you. As I traveled the state a question was posed to me several times about politics in general.
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Stagecoaches, Alabama style
Through The Past
      Stage travel! Loss of sleep, hard jolts, rough fare, upset stages, mud, wind and cold! Traveling by stagecoach was an adventure- sometimes a dangerous one. Picture this in your mind. Do you see Gene Autry or Roy Rogers riding behind a runaway stagecoach? Not this time. These stagecoaches of the ...
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Life on the Salmon
From The Nethermost
      I saw the brackish water across the sand bar near the fast flowing Salmon River. This was the first still water I had seen in the week spent in the River of No Return Wilderness. Black rock cliffs or boulder fields form the sides of this river cutting across the State of Idaho.
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From Our Files
      129 years ago "Quite a crowd of tax-payers were in town last Monday at the instance of the commissioners' court, which had notified them that their taxable property as thought to be valued a little too low, and that said court was disposed to raise the valuations a little.
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