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On Dec. 17, about 80 health care workers at Ascension Providence Hospital in Waco became the first in McLennan County to receive Pfizer’s new …
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A friend of ours who voted for President Trump on Tuesday casually acknowledged Thursday that his man had almost certainly lost the presidenti…
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Last Sunday Republican state Sen. Brian Birdwell got up before an audience at a local church and suggested political forces allied against Pre…
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And so we reach the end of an unpresidented era.
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