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Growing up, I was a passionate reader of the comics pages. I chuckled at pitfalls of “Hagar the Horrible” and the “Prince of Id” and patiently followed the never-ending and desperately tedious adventures of “Prince Valiant.” I especially enjoyed reading the “Dick Tracy” comics. I was amazed at the cool gadgets he had, including the watches that had built in television screens and a...

810 That is the number of minutes of sunlight that Taylor County residents will have today. From sunrise at 6:17 a.m. to sunset at 7:47 p.m. and every minute in between. Looking at it other ways, it works out to be 13 hours and 30 minutes or 48,600 seconds. Regardless, of how many slices you chop it up into, the length of this particular day doesn’t change. The question to each of us is, w...

It took me about 20 minutes to drive from The Star News office in downtown Medford to the Stetsonville Village hall on Monday afternoon. For the record, I did not use the ridiculous great circle detour that the state has of taking Hwy 64 east to Hwy 97 and then south Hwy 29 and then north on Hwy 13 from Abbotsford. If I, or anyone else for that matter, actually followed the official detour, I m...