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Well, you thought you had seen the last edition from this author, but the governor called a special session – labeled extraordinary – for 3 days early this week. So, here is another edition to fill you in on what happened during the last gasp of the 72nd General Assembly. Prior to the special session, the governor had reiterated that everyone stay home if possible and practice social distancing during the resurgence of COVID statewide. While he and his first gentleman were quarantined...

In a yearly tradition that spans nearly four decades, Tribune readers can once more help fulfill the wishes of 232 residents of care centers and adult family homes in the region this holiday season. Helen Wilks and Ellen Smith, sisters and longtime Lewiston residents, and their families, in cooperation with the Lewiston Tribune, sponsor an annual drive to obtain gifts for residents in need. They ask Tribune readers to purchase gifts for one or more of these residents for the holidays. This will...

By Liisa Ogburn A dear friend called me this morning to tell me her opthalmologist had conveyed to her recently that, given her declining eyesight, it was no longer safe for her to drive. More than one physician has told me that telling a patient that they are no longer drive can sometimes feel more devastating than telling them that they have cancer. Cancer, after all, is treatable and possibly a temporary situation. Not driving is a permanent loss of independence. Not long ago, I had to c...

Actor would looked like with their shirt off. can you close your eyes and imagine jimmy stewart or montgomery cliff or even john wayne with their shirt off? >> it would be ridiculous for me to play outside of it and it would be crazy for dustin hoffman to try to be commando or to be conan or the terminator or to be rambo. it doesnt work, you know? people only accept you for certain things. >> there were a lot of ideas of returning to traditional notions of masculinity after the sensitive 70s. bu...

>> hi, everybody, i am brian kilmeade. welcome back to "sam houston and the texas fight for freedom." im inside the barracks, inside the alamo, which so much fighting took place. invited bowie, respected leader, telling all of them into a bend in. somewhere between "the ingraham angle" getting the orders on the arriving here, he changed his mind pick what he thought he would be safe. this is the one time in which bowies instincts abandon him. lets get one of the finest commanders of this generat...

Can bring back these pows. we can send back this representative of american might. >> stallone had become so devoted to having the perfectly chiselled, ultra muscled upper body at the same time that arnold schwarzenegger who, of course, had been a bodybuilder suddenly became an unlikely star in the 80s, too. >> i dont know if prior to 1980 anyone would have had a film image of what their favorite actor would look like with their shirt off. you think jim stewart or john wayne with their shirt off...

♪ blame it all on my roots i showed up in my boots ♪ ♪ and ruined your black tie affair ♪ >> when they asked people their favorite singer, number one in the nation was garth brooks. are you surprised by that? >> yes, sir. i guess my family knew they would be asking the questions and got there before they did. ♪ i got friends in low places ♪ where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away ♪ >> living in mississippi, country was a huge part of my life, and it was all becau...

And building up a fan base. ♪ blame it all on my roots i showed up in my boots ♪ ♪ and ruined your black tie affair ♪ >> when they asked people their favorite singer, number one in the nation was garth brooks. are you surprised by that? >> yes, sir. i guess my family knew they would be asking the questions and got there before they did. ♪ i got friends in low places ♪ where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away ♪ >> living in mississippi, country was a huge part of m...

House. there was a lot of discussion about using troops, directly facing the demonstrators, which i felt could lead to direct confrontations and conflicts. and so it came to me, why dont we do what john wayne did, lets just circle the white house. with buses. not wagons but with buses. which is what we did. >> so did you want to be on the side of jane fonda or john wayne? my parents chose john wayne. and therefore, they were for nixon and nixon was on the side of law and order. ♪ nixon now ♪...

The second par threw all that out the window. >> do we get to win this time? n >> this time its up to you. >> it was time to move past the perceived failures of the 60s and 70s. you cant rewrite history, but we can go back and bring back these p.o.w.s. >> stallone had become so devoted to having the perfectly chiselled, ultra muscled upper body, at the same time that arnold schwarzenegger suddenly became an unlikely action star in the 80s, too. >> i dont know if prior to 1980 anyone would have h...