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You’ve undoubtedly gotten email from your bank or financial institution encouraging you to go paperless. Today we’ll go over what that means, how to prepare for it, and how to deal with those paperless statements.

Former president Donald Trump has been charged with 91 felonies in four distinct jurisdictions. He remains the leading candidate in the Republican primaries for the 2024 presidential election. The first Republican primary debate is this Wednesday.

Everywhere I turn I see doomsayers.

When I was a child, I remember spending the summers often with my grandparents in Tennessee. My grandfather, in the later years of his life, left his grocery business to serve as a church-planting missionary in the area between Nashville and Knoxville in that state. One of his strategies for starting a new church was to go into a town to see if there was a church building that for whatever reason had closed down.

Ha! You thought I was going to name names, didn’t you? Admit it. OK, maybe I should have titled this one, “Five types of teachers I do not like.” Hey, I taught for 30 years. I saw all kinds. Let us proceed.

The spurious social-media illusion that everybody lives like Hollywood celebrities, puffed-up internet influencers, oligarchs, and rock stars has the unfortunate effect of encouraging false expectations, unrealistic lifestyles, depression and sometimes anger. Think of teens influenced by the likes of the Kardashians.

Last year we discussed power banks in my column titled More Power Part 2 (https://go.ttot.link/TGMorePower-2).

Editor’s note — This is the fifth of a multiple-part series as the author relives a little childhood trauma.

So, I got a cold.

There’s a wonderful force helping to drive the future of the city of Hillsboro. It’s a plan and it’s called “Imagine Hillsboro”. More precisely, it’s a well conceived strategic plan, much like you would expect to find driving the goals and objectives of a well-run small business, government or corporation.