OPINION: The half life of stupid and the ‘radioactivity of the Internet’

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Zach Mitcham
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Tuesday, August 14. 2018
Why does “half life” intrigue me so much? I remember hearing that one form of uranium has a half life of 4.5 billion years. I’m not a scientist, not remotely close. But I’m intrigued that certain earth materials have energy that can give the stars a run for their money in longevity. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: The city and the country

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Zach Mitcham
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Monday, July 30. 2018
I don’t believe there is a clear way that a “city person” is, nor is there a clear way that a “rural person” is either. Everyone is truly different in character, intellect, outlook and experience. The road of generalities is full of potholes that will bust your tires. But I do think people in urban and rural environments have different pressures and problems. And this creates some divisions at times, some lack of understanding in both directions. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: Here’s the fire: what’s in your bucket?

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Zach Mitcham
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Monday, July 2. 2018
There are certain simple things we all know but forget, like: We can’t control the world, and the cruelty that permeates it, but we can control ourselves and not be cruel. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: The yellowed newsprint and reporting the hardest things

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Zach Mitcham
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Tuesday, June 26. 2018
There is a clipped, yellow-tinged newspaper story in a shoebox full of old photos at my parents’ house. It’s the article about my father’s tragedy. He had been 16 for only two weeks when he lost control of his Corvair in Monroe in 1964, drove off the roadway and ran for help for one of his best friends, who died. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: The beginning of a millennium, and the graduation of its babies

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Zach Mitcham
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Thursday, May 24. 2018
It’s strange to think how exotic the year 2000 used to seem. But I remember it. The movie “2001” had some of its power in its name, that far-away mystical ring of a new millenium, like the number itself resided in space. We all thought: “Who knows what the world will be like in 2001?” And who could have predicted it? [Full Story »] 

OPINION: Tariffs could take down many newspapers

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Zach Mitcham
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Monday, May 21. 2018
The Internet has been a sledgehammer to the old newspaper business model, sending many publications into layoff mode. Print industry struggles remain with no end in sight. But today’s newspaper battle against paper tariffs is less known, though the tariffs could be a knockout uppercut to the chin of many publications already wobbly against the ropes. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: One man’s troubled spring ‘beak’

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Zach Mitcham
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Monday, May 14. 2018
I love the green back on the trees, the comfortable rides with the windows down, the late evenings on the porch. But nose disagrees. It hates this. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: Lent Shaw lynching photo deserves honest eyes

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Zach Mitcham
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Monday, May 7. 2018
Evan Lewis traveled to Madison County to see the place where his great grandfather, Lent Shaw, was lynched 82 years ago April 28. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: Agriculture — the root of Western Civilization

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Zach Mitcham
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Monday, April 23. 2018
For much of human history, there was no Ingles, no Kroger. There was no grocery cart full of goods for the week. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: A look at MLK’s assassination as seen by Caldwell

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Zach Mitcham
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Monday, April 16. 2018
I don’t have anyone’s obituary set to go. There’s no obit on file for anyone still among the living in Madison County — at least not at our paper. What a morbid kind of task, right? [Full Story »] 
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