Around Town – Jan. 28

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Jan. 28

Orchids to

John Krull for an insightful commentary about the latest ICE killing in Minnesota.

California for joining the WHO’s global outbreak response network after the MAGA administration withdrew from the agency.

the exceptionally accurate winter weather forecast despite all the hand-wringing about the One Big Beautiful Bill’s effect on the National Weather Service.

The Republic staff for quickly updating our payment information when we couldn’t get the website option to work.

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church for having a cleared parking lot, it was deeply appreciated.

our president for making it clear to the globalist elites that we are a sovereign nation and don’t want their New World Order.

Onions to

those blaming ICE agents for chaos instead of the criminals interfering with the agents’ legal actions.

the DHS squads’ behavior and actions, which are a clear example of the current administration’s total moral failure.

the absurd idea to send ICE agents to Italy for the Olympics; Italy doesn’t have any oil or rare earths, another geographical mistake?

blackmailing a state because of the elected official’s vindictive personal grievances.

the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel wanting individual choice rather than public health for polio and other childhood diseases.

supporters of the convicted felon and his band of “gold shirts!”

the interview on Monday with the television news statING Columbus streets were in good shape, when we were in red warning due to the county road conditions and many city streets still needing plowed.

the politician who whines and complains about not winning the Nobel Peace Prize while his Gestapo-like, masked ICE thugs terrorize, shoot and kill U.S. citizens in the streets.

businesses and organizations that can’t take a minute to post whether or not they are open.

the county truck that plowed snow back in my driveway, for no apparent reason, after they had seen me spend hours shoveling out the first 3 feet they plowed into my drive.

those who don’t bother to clean their vehicles and end up driving around with a mohawk-style snow drift on the top.