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Tom Purcell

Yuma Sun

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Opinion: Why fewer Americans are moving

21.02.2025 2

El Dorado News Times

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Why fewer Americans are moving

Guest Column: Why fewer Americans are moving
20.02.2025 3

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Opinion: The history of executive orders

13.02.2025 3

El Dorado News Times

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: The simple joy of snow

29.01.2025 3

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Why skilled trades are safe from AI

23.01.2025 4

El Dorado News Times

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Will Rogers knew Congress too well

22.01.2025 2

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Unknown Civil Rights Hero Paved the Way for MLK

20.01.2025 3

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Our national debt is beyond comprehension

10.01.2025 5

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Memories of a 1970s Christmas

Why do Christmas memories from 50 years ago still hold so much power over me? I think I know now. Christmas was a huge event for our family. At St....

26.12.2024 4

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Opinion: MEMORIES OF A 1970S CHRISTMAS

by Tom Purcell on December 16, 2024 Why do Christmas memories from 50 years ago still hold so much power over me? I think I know now. Christmas was...

18.12.2024 5

El Dorado News Times

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Sign me up for cursive

The death of cursive handwriting reared its ugly head during the recent presidential election. Since 2010, according to Yahoo News, many states...

12.12.2024 8

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Opinion: Sign me up for cursive

by Tom Purcell on December 2, 2024 The death of cursive handwriting reared its ugly head during the recent presidential election. Since 2010,...

04.12.2024 3

El Dorado News Times

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Why kids can’t walk alone

A story from my childhood came to mind as I read a recent ABC News report about a mother who was arrested after her son was seen walking alone to...

04.12.2024 6

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Why I still love “The Waltons”

One of the great benefits of streaming TV is that I’m able to watch old network shows that I enjoyed while growing up in the 1970s. One of my...

29.11.2024 5

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Celebrating Our Great Americans

When he was told he had only weeks to live, his response was telling. He was calm and at peace. At 82, he told his children he had lived much...

15.11.2024 2

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Dying makes life worth living!

Get this: life expectancy has apparently hit its peak. According to msn.com, a recent study published in the journal Nature Aging finds that,...

07.11.2024 4

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: The sweet taste of Halloween

Not until it got dark! That was the trick or treating rule my mother set down every year. She didn’t want me to embarrass her by interrupting...

31.10.2024 3

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Re-embracing the American spirit

When I was a 14-year-old kid in 1977, I rode my bike, played ball with my friends and had virtually no responsibility. During that same time,...

12.10.2024 5

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: My father, the crook and the British sports car

I’ll never forget the look on my father’s face when he learned about the crook who stole my British sports car. It was the spring of 1988 and I...

04.10.2024 3

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Offering some tax advice

As a self-employed writer, I’ve become knowledgeable about how high my income taxes really are. Every now and then I like to reply to readers with...

26.09.2024 2

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Think twice before relocating to a rural home

As more Americans can do their jobs from any remote location, a trend has been to relocate from urban and suburban areas to lower-cost, rural...

16.09.2024 3

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: The house we live in

I’ve been listening to old crooners on Pandora lately, and one of my favorite Frank Sinatra songs is “The House I Live In.” Sinatra performed the...

10.09.2024 2

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Opinion: The house we live in

by Tom Purcell on September 3, 2024 I've been listening to old crooners on Pandora lately, and one of my favorite Frank Sinatra songs is "The House...

05.09.2024 2

El Dorado News Times

Tom Purcell

Guest column: My ‘David Cassidy’ haircut

Editor’s note: This column is an excerpt from Tom Purcell’s humorous memoir, “Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood,” that was previously...

04.09.2024 5

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Opinon: My Davidy Cassidy haircut

by Tom Purcell on August 27, 2024 Editor's note: This column is an excerpt from Tom Purcell's humorous memoir, "Misadventures of a 1970s...

30.08.2024 2

El Dorado News Times

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: America’s last truly free market

All anybody needs to know about a free economy is that it is alive and well thanks to social-media flea markets, such as Facebook Marketplace....

30.08.2024 3

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Why price controls don’t work, even for pencils

Why do some politicians and bureaucrats constantly forget that when governments meddle in our mostly free market that bad things happen? Vice...

23.08.2024 3

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Government-mandated vacations

Sen. Bernie Sanders has sponsored a bill to mandate paid vacations for all employees. Like so many of Bernie’s proposals, it sounds good until you...

15.08.2024 3

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Survivor of a baby boomer childhood

Editor’s Note: This column is an excerpt from Tom Purcell’s book, “Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood.” The MSNBC.com article said that kids...

09.08.2024 4

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell

Guest Column: Forgetting our Olympic woes

Bowling didn’t make the cut again. Neither will baseball and softball, ballroom dancing, pole dancing and a host of other sports be featured in the...

01.08.2024 2

Yuma Sun

Tom Purcell