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Folks, as you can tell from the headline of this column, which you can guess was either taken from Major General Douglas MacArthur’s iconic quote upon American forces retaking the Philippines …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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6/14/23
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As sure as the sunburn on my face, little league baseball in Iuka held its Opening Day this past Saturday. The first column I wrote exactly one year ago was about Opening Day 2022. Some things …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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4/5/23
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I do not expect most folks turn to this column for what is referred to as “hard news.” I try to go out of my way to avoid telling readers how they should live their lives. So, one can …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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3/29/23
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Spring Break loses a lot of its luster when you become less interested in college fun and more worried about paying into your child’s college fund. So, with the weather in Florida peaking in …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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3/22/23
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Another week of eighty-degree February weather in beautiful, crime-free Iuka, Mississippi, and something has to break soon - while I was sitting down to type this column, I pulled a tick off myself. …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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3/1/23
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As I type this column, the temperature the next two days (days that are occurring during the calendar month of February) is going to be above eighty degrees. That’s right, February is going to …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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2/22/23
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It’s been a busy week in beautiful, crime-free Iuka, Mississippi. In the span of just three days, we’ve managed to squeeze in two formerly pure joyful celebrations slowly spoiled by …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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2/15/23
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Welcome to Mississippi in February, where it’s sixty degrees now because of course it is. Last week it was so cold I was Googling “Jobs in Venezuela If You Don’t Speak …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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2/8/23
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We are not out of January yet and I’m thinking about a do-over on my New Year’s Resolutions. I mean, I haven’t lost a pound. I haven’t eaten more leafy vegetables. I have not …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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1/25/23
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Growing up in beautiful, crime-free Iuka, Mississippi, you learn certain life lessons the rest of the world is deprived of. “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” for example. …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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1/18/23
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“It’s over,” my sainted wife woefully proclaims to me every year, usually around a day or two before Thanksgiving.
“What is, dear?” I reply, not taking my eyes …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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1/4/23
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Friends, we are 360 odd days from New Year’s Day 2022 and, I am sad to report, I still do not have six pack abs. To be honest, that always felt like more of a 2023 kind of resolution. New …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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12/28/22
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We are basically one week until Christmas here in Northeast Mississippi. For those of you who don’t regularly work in the local criminal courts, it’s the time of year where the lyrics to …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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12/14/22
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Last Friday, as it does every first Friday in December, beautiful, crime-free Iuka, Mississippi held its annual Christmas parade. The temperature was downright mild and the rain held off. We have had …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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12/7/22
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I spent my Thanksgiving holidays like I do most years: watching a soccer game being played in a small Middle Eastern country. That’s a joke. I don’t watch soccer … ever. I prefer …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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12/1/22
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It’s the middle of November here in beautiful, crime-free Iuka and it’s already too cold for me to be expected to attend any event where I’m not contractually obligated to show up. …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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11/16/22
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Here in beautiful, crime-free Iuka, Mississippi we are about a week removed from Halloween and my sainted wife is worried she may be getting behind on putting the Christmas tree up. At this rate, I …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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11/9/22
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It has been two weeks since my last column. I would love to say missing last week had something to do with some sort of personal trials or tribulations - overcoming disease or maybe being framed for …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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11/2/22
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Someone recently had the audacity to disagree with me. I know, can you believe it?! I thought one of the perks of being a 40+ year-old man would be that all would respect my wisdom. When I was …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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10/19/22
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We are now well into Fall in beautiful, crime-free Iuka. Fall comes every year a little differently around here. Fall doesn’t begin at the Autumn Equinox, like in most of the country. No, it …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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10/12/22
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Last week, I took a week off from this column. My paying job got in the way of my non-paying job. To avoid violating attorney-client privilege, which contrary to popular belief in Northeast …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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10/5/22
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Charles the Third has become the King of England, which is pretty good work if you can get it. King of England is like how jobs at the power company were in the 1980s - they only come open when …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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9/21/22
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Ladies and gentlemen, I am a newspaper columnist, Southern politician and a lawyer which means there are few people in the world better at running their mouth. I have found my talent, like Brett …
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by Nate Clark, Columnist
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9/14/22
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I guess I left last week’s column on a bit of a cliffhanger - I’m sure my loyal readers (Shoutout to my mom and the guys who get the Tishomingo County News as part of a prison literacy …
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by Nate Clark, Town Cryings
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9/7/22
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Three weeks into school and my children are starting to figure out this getting up in the morning is going to be an everyday thing. Here in beautiful, crime-free Iuka, Mississippi, we have just hit …
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by Nate Clark, Columnist
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8/24/22
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