I wonder what Ben Franklin might say about all this…

Posted by John Small | Apr 29, 2020 | Small Talk

Submitted for your consideration, in light of certain events that have been reported in the national news over the past week or so: Let’s call it a hypothetical situation, albeit one that you might just recognize. The year is 2019. You live in California, and your community is being threatened by a fast-moving wildfire. Local […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

I wonder what Ben Franklin might say about all this…

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