Dick Yarbrough

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Yarbrough: Biden or Trump; not much choice at all

A recent poll from the Associated Press and the University of Chicago’s NORC research center found that 70 percent of Americans, including 44 percent of Republicans and 63 percent of independents, do not want Donald Trump to run for president in 2024.
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Dick Yarbrough/File Photo

Yarbrough: What they say and what it means

The following is a Public Service Announcement: Congress is in recess and members are back home. Kiwanis, Rotarians, Chambers of Commerce, and other assorted groups can expect likely visits from their intrepid public servants.
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Dick Yarbrough/File Photo

Yarbrough: Some random thoughts on some random subjects

As I watched the surreal events this past week concerning the first-ever criminal indictment of a former president of the United States, I thought of a passage in the Old Testament, Hosea 8:7: “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
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Dick Yarbrough/File Photo

Yarbrough: It’s not public schools that are failing; it is society

When did public schools start failing? It had to be after I graduated. I seem to recall a group of dedicated teachers who taught me how to read and write, add and subtract, and even multiply and divide. All these many eons later, I still remember them: Ms. Dent in the 3rd grade; Ms.
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Dick Yarbrough/File Photo

Yarbrough: Never mind the wolves; it’s about the termites

Columnist David French is a recent addition to the editorial pages of The New York Times. (Yes, I read The Times – but I don’t inhale.) He is a conservative voice. Born in Alabama and currently living in Tennessee, French describes himself as a “Reagan Republican,” going back to his early teens.