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Ed Smith
newsroom@thewesternstar.com
All articles of Ed Smith
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The View From Here - Wild party
I have a photograph I’d like to show you.It shows OH and me being upon 2 X 4’s, a tarpaulin and inundated by what seemed to us to be about half ... -
The view from here - The day in verse
The outlook isn’t brilliant for the world at large today.There are mudslides, floods and hurricanes that wash whole towns away.Tsunamis 30 feet ... -
The view from here - Hail to the Chief
My heart goes out to members of the Roman Catholic church.It really does. Not being sarcastic in the least. I think to be a faithful member of ... -
The view from here - Thoughts for the times
Three - four - five - how many earth shattering events have we had in the last two weeks or so? I’m beginning to think the Maya were only off by ... -
The view from here - Little interest in massage parlor
It’s difficult writing a column with the lead-time of almost a week for some of you, and more for the rest of you.Anything can happen in that ... -
The view from here - The sobering truth
If you’re expecting a sweet, sugary Christmas column, forget it.Out of respect for you, the reader, I am resisting the temptation to launch out ... -
The View From Here
Students have now been in university long enough to do something really stupid.(You may notice that the “stupid” theme has dominated this column ... -
The View From Here
I do not view myself as inordinately stupid.I know, I know. There have been columns, which seemed to point in that general direction. I have ... -
The one and only
Saw an interesting magazine article the other day. "How to Know If He's/she's The One." I was telling a friend about it and she wanted to know ... -
The View From Here
The problem with last night’s movie was that it wasn’t supposed to be a horror flick. It purported to be an examination of the prophecies of ... -
The view from here
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The view from here
Is it just me or is everything awfully quiet politically these days? The most noise you hear is on Randy Simms’ Open Line, but even Randy ... -
The view from here
Writing a column for public consumption is fraught with danger. “Fraught” is not a word used much anymore. I thought I’d try to ...





