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Editorial: What is and what isn’t pedophilia

January 3, 2022January 3, 2022 - by News Director

TweetPinShareJon Johnson File Photo/Gila Herald: Graham County Courthouse Column By Melissa Martin There’s a new term floating around that seeks to replace the word pedophilia for non-offending individuals. A “minor-attracted person” or …

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Editorial: Freedom’s slippery slope

December 6, 2021December 6, 2021 - by News Director

TweetPinShareFile Photo By Kaleigh Kochanski/Cronkite News Column By Melissa Martin What’s happens to civil liberties when those in power ignite pandemic fear and continue to pour fuel on the blaze …

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Editorial: False alarm: COVID-19 variants  

November 29, 2021November 29, 2021 - by News Director

TweetPinShare “Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”  Friedrich August von Hayek Column By Melissa Martin Here we go again. Anthony …

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Editorial: Erasing the freedom to disagree

November 27, 2021November 27, 2021 - by News Director

TweetPinShareColumn By Melissa Martin Every person has a story. Every person is a story. Our world is laced and leathered together by stories about humanity; the rights and the wrongs. …

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Editorial: To mask or not to mask? That is the question

July 20, 2020July 20, 2020 - by News Director

TweetPinShareRaymundo Frasquillo File Photo/Gila Herald: Volunteers hand out masks at an event in Morenci. Column By Melissa Martin People are adjusting and adapting protective masks to fit every occasion. Creative …

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Editorial: Hot temperatures can provoke tempers

July 10, 2020July 10, 2020 - by News Director

TweetPinShareWalt Mares File Photo/Gila Herald Column By Melissa Martin Sizzling sunshine, high humidity, sweltering sweat. The recent heatwave scorches our brain and melts our underwear. Why do soaring temperatures lead …

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