Ron Jacobs

Ever hear of the D-C-D Highway? Long before we had a federal highway system in Love County we were part of the D-C-D “Auto Trail.”

Lamar Looney was born in 1871 in Alabama. She was named for Mirabeau Lamar, a president of the Republic of Texas.

Most of the 50 states have designated a state tree, a state flower, etc. The United States has designated the American bison as the national

They paved People's Park and put up a high-rise, Berkeley 2026. I just returned from a journey to the West Coast of the United States.

The Taovayas Memorial Bridge is located on the Illinois Bend of the Red River in Love County.

The lack of affordability is the curse of the working class, whether its individual members are working or not. Politicians talk about it and some might

The lack of affordability is the curse of the working class, whether its individual members are working or not. Politicians talk about it and some might even propose legislation to moderate it, but the cost of almost everything keeps going up more than wages and retirement benefits. The domination of the economy by monopolies and cartels–many of which are invested in the business of war and resource extraction–and by politicians at their service means the bills they rack up are going to be paid by us. When the ruling class tells us they can't afford to continue providing social services, they're lying. It's not that they can't, it's that their priorities lie elsewhere, with consistently higher profits being near or at the forefront. A new book, titled

The introduction to this article is extracted from a story in the May 27, 1970 issue of “The Daily Ardmoreite”.

This description of Love County is taken from the May 15, 1897 Marietta Monitor.

Sometime during my school years, probably in junior high, a teacher handed me the novel News from Nowhere by William Morris.