Tales from the Mark Side: Life sure used to be a lot more simple
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Tales from the Mark Side: Life sure used to be a lot more simple

mark.young@manateeherald.com Life sure used to be a lot more simple. Remember when honesty was the best policy? You never had a single thing to worry about as long as the truth was on your side. But that doesn’t seem to matter anymore and that, my friends, is perhaps the scariest thing out of all the…

Hopefully The Winds of Change are Blowing in the Windy City
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Hopefully The Winds of Change are Blowing in the Windy City

The City of Chicago is facing one of its most important elections in decades and the outcome will impact our whole country. Brandon Johnson, a “defund the police” activist has made the runoff after a bitter primary race. Lori Lightfoot, the current inept mayor, failed to reach the runoff after 4 years of rising crime…

Tales from the Mark Side: The trouble with liberals …
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Tales from the Mark Side: The trouble with liberals …

mark.young@manateeherald.com The trouble with liberals …  Liberals continue to confound me. I have tried so hard to understand them for so long. I tried to sympathize with them because we’ve learned that they suffer from a mental disorder. Conservatives are a compassionate people after all, but we do have our limits. I’ve tried to engage…

Tales from the Mark Side: Let’s move on from COVID and find a cure for liberalism
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Tales from the Mark Side: Let’s move on from COVID and find a cure for liberalism

mark.young@manateeherald.com For most of us, the origins of the COVID pandemic was pretty obvious from the onset. For us, the only real question was whether or not it was deliberate on the part of the Chinese. I think I’m not alone in believing that it was. And to put that into perspective, Nazi Germany murdered…

Tales from the Mark Side: Time to acknowledge “reverse-ism” in America
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Tales from the Mark Side: Time to acknowledge “reverse-ism” in America

mark.young@manateeherald.com We’ve reached a point in this country where the need to attach an “ism” at the end of every word in order to attack others has become something of an addiction. Ford and Chevy owners will probably start calling each other Fordists and Chevyiests. As a NY Giants fan, I’ll Cowboys fans will call…

Manatee’s Guardian Angel Cost The County Millions
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Manatee’s Guardian Angel Cost The County Millions

Someone once observed that “roads are the arteries through which the economy pulses.” Decades ago Manatee County had several commissioners who hoped to thwart growth in our county by refusing to build and enlarge roads. Those “ostrich commissioners” made  many poor decisions that set back transportation in our county. Today, we sit in traffic jams…