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The View from the Balcony: Bigotry: The Shame and the Stain that Remain

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The View from the Balcony: Bigotry: The Shame and the Stain that Remain

Randy Weeks November 4, 2019 0

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up...

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The View from the Balcony: Tête-à-tête with a Whistleblower

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The View from the Balcony: Tête-à-tête with a Whistleblower

Randy Weeks October 8, 2019 0

Whistleblower: a person who exposes secretive information or activity that is deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct… The...

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The View from the Balcony: Sweltering, Sizzling September

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The View from the Balcony: Sweltering, Sizzling September

Randy Weeks September 25, 2019 0

Why in the world would we expect September to be more temperate than August? Maybe since Labor...

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The View from the Balcony: Re-evaluating Beliefs

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The View from the Balcony: Re-evaluating Beliefs

Randy Weeks September 10, 2019 0

A few days ago, someone called me out on something. It upset me so much that when...

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The View from the Balcony: Red and Blue Velvet

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The View from the Balcony: Red and Blue Velvet

Randy Weeks August 14, 2019 0

Like it or not, they’re coming back. It won’t be long until we hear the tromp-tromp of...

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The View from the Balcony: What’s Love Got to Do with It?

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The View from the Balcony: What’s Love Got to Do with It?

Randy Weeks July 30, 2019 0

There are some strange things going on in this election of the next President of these semi-united...

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The View from the Balcony: Advice vs. Badvice, The Therapist Is In

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The View from the Balcony: Advice vs. Badvice, The Therapist Is In

Randy Weeks July 24, 2019 0

Sitting on The Balcony as I do, people talk to me. They tell me things, personal things,...

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The View from the Balcony: Deep Thoughts by Randy (Not Jack Handy)

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The View from the Balcony: Deep Thoughts by Randy (Not Jack Handy)

Randy Weeks July 3, 2019 0

I grew up as an only child with two older sisters and one older brother. I spent...

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The View from the Balcony: Perspective

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The View from the Balcony: Perspective

Randy Weeks June 12, 2019 0

Saturday night, June 1, 2019, @ 8:00 p.m. I wasn’t feeling all that spry. Sinus infection. So...

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The View from the Balcony: From the Pen of the Sundown Cowboy, Self-Proclaimed Poet Lariat of The Balcony…

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The View from the Balcony: From the Pen of the Sundown Cowboy, Self-Proclaimed Poet Lariat of The Balcony…

Randy Weeks June 5, 2019 0

Sorry Don’t be sorry for being who you are.Don’t be sorry. We all have our own kinds...

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The View from the Balcony: Mother’s Day Miracle

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The View from the Balcony: Mother’s Day Miracle

Randy Weeks May 22, 2019 0

About a month ago a robin made her nest in an inside corner of the eve of...

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The View from the Balcony: Double Decker by the Numbers

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The View from the Balcony: Double Decker by the Numbers

Randy Weeks May 20, 2019 0

by Randy Weeks From where I sat The Double Decker Arts Festival was a smashing success. The...

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The View from the Balcony: Russian Interference

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The View from the Balcony: Russian Interference

Randy Weeks April 10, 2019 0

“In the Spring a US citizen’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of . . . taxes.” (Alfred...

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The View from the Balcony: Mississippi Bubbles

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The View from the Balcony: Mississippi Bubbles

Randy Weeks March 27, 2019 1

I’m back in SoCal, and I’ve been reading a few news stories about us (Mississippians). I have...

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The View from the Balcony: How Ya Doin’?

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The View from the Balcony: How Ya Doin’?

Randy Weeks March 6, 2019 1

(Warning: This column contains an excessive number of open and closed quotation marks, as well as a...

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The View from the Balcony: Chasing Charles Chaplin

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The View from the Balcony: Chasing Charles Chaplin

Randy Weeks February 13, 2019 0

I’m writing this on February 1, 2019. Just up the road a bit the 34th annual Santa...

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The View from the Balcony: 2019 Predictions from The Balcony by Randy Weeks

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The View from the Balcony: 2019 Predictions from The Balcony by Randy Weeks

Randy Weeks January 17, 2019 0

It’s the time of year when people start putting their New Year’s resolutions into action. The vast...

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The View from The Balcony: The Sheik Saves Christmas

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The View from The Balcony: The Sheik Saves Christmas

Randy Weeks December 12, 2018 0

It’s cliché to write about New Year’s resolutions this time of year. So I will. I posed...

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The View from the Balcony: “I Like Beer”

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The View from the Balcony: “I Like Beer”

Randy Weeks October 17, 2018 0

After being confirmed as a Justice on the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh needed a break – a...

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The View from the Balcony: Finding Your Balance

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The View from the Balcony: Finding Your Balance

Randy Weeks September 5, 2018 0

This is a bit of a follow-up to my last TLV column, “The Ten Commandments for Students.”...

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