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Perspectives on the lives we live: Topic: The Science of it all

June 17, 2021 Free PressOpinions

By Victor C. Kirk I am often amazed by the ability of scientists to discover a methodology to use the human genotype as a vehicle to solve medical mysteries. Once the human body was geocoded it was inevitable that science…

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Perspectives on the lives we live: Topic: Home Grown

June 10, 2021June 10, 2021 Free PressOpinions

By Victor C. Kirk Who do you turn to before your small business bites the dust? I would have thought the Chamber of Commerce or the Mayor’s Office of Community Development or the North Delta Economic Development District Commission or…

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Perspectives on the lives we live: Topic: Faith

June 3, 2021June 3, 2021 Free PressOpinions

By Victor C Kirk Like most of you I watched the horrors that unfolded in Oklahoma nearly a century ago but turned to both CBS and the History channel for a debriefing. So, if what I heard and saw was…

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Perspectives on the lives we live: Topic: Fear and Resolve

May 27, 2021May 27, 2021 Free PressOpinions

By Victor C Kirk I die in my sleep once a month now. Images of the killing of George Floyd at the hands of the police haunt me. I am a Black male in America in a state in the…

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Perspectives on the lives we live: Topic: Roe v Wade

May 20, 2021May 20, 2021 Free PressOpinions

By Victor C Kirk I am a pragmatic male and as such believe I am limited in my role in procreation. I provide the sperm that fertilize the egg. After its mad dash from my testicle, the female egg takes…

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Perspectives on the lives we live: Topic: The “Blunt”

May 13, 2021May 13, 2021 Free PressOpinions

By Victor C. Kirk A robust economy either spawns strange bedfellows or police reform has its shortcomings when profits supersedes logic. There was a time when securing funds for “frat” parties required putting in place “innovative” strategies. A traditional approach…

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Perspectives on the lives we live: Topic: Cash

May 6, 2021May 6, 2021 Free PressOpinions

By Victor C Kirk The state coffers are awash with cash. So much so that a feeding frenzy has begun with the elected leadership of state and local governments jockeying to be at the front of the line vying for…

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Celebrating Birthdays Today: --Joann Smith, In Loving Memory of Attlen Person, Derrick E. McNeal, Corey McRoblen, Anthony Green, Brushonda Alexander, Vanessa Cyrus, Markus Brooks, Maria A. Thanning, Sonjanita Yvette McDaniel, Rhoshandra L. Crosby, Morris Coleman, Jr., Wayne Everette Pollard, Lana Sue Hezekiah, Jordan Jones. (6)
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--- This week in 2000 Mayor Melvin Rambin reversed Abe Pierce's street management plan. Read the Story (23)
On this day in 2005, Kyanitre Mesha Devarie Graves was crowned Homecoming Queen at Neville High School. (18)

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Our Rich Black Heritage: Miss McCree Harris

By Garry Blanson Today, many Black High School  Students in Monroe , Louisiana…

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Our Rich Black Heritage: George Henry White

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