Redacted: To put into suitable literary form; revise, edit. To hide or remove (confidential parts of a text) before publication or distribution. – Dictionary.com During my time as a court and cops reporter for the Brookings Register in the 1970s, I rarely came...
Taxation: “To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” — Thomas Jefferson The sign along I-90 quotes Romans 6:23: “The wages of sin is death.” And then there is the clever retort by...
Style: “A distinctive manner of expression, as in writing or speech.” – Merriam Webster Dictionary Ain’t language grand? Two little words, “style” and “form,” caused a major breach between lawmakers and Gov. Noem recently and even divided legislators...
Gild the lily: To add ornament or decoration to something that is pleasing in its original state; to attempt to improve something that is already fine the way it is. – The Free Dictionary She was probably 30. It’s often hard to tell these days. She...
Hanging together: “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” — Henry Ford Wedmore Hardware had everything. If you needed a bolt, a plumbing fixture, or a specialty screwdriver, Bud Mills would find it for...
