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Wednesday, November 23, 2022

A Liberal Dose, November 24, 2022 "Let's Be Thankful to Native Americans"

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  A Liberal Dose November 24, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Let’s be thankful to Native Americans”     Happy Thanksgiving. I love this hol...
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Saturday, November 19, 2022

A Liberal Dose, Nov. 17, 2022 "Taking a Deep Breath After the Midterms"

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  A Liberal Dose November 17, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Taking a deep breath after the midterms”   Well, that went better than I expecte...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Letter to Herald-Citizen on Mascot Issue- Nov. 16, 2022

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Friday, November 11, 2022

A Liberal Dose, November 10, 2022 "Have We Reached Our Preston Brooks Moment?"

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  Note: this edition carries both my column from last week and this week's follow-up.  HERE is a link to last week's column. A Liber...
Friday, November 4, 2022

A Liberal Dose, Nov. 3 2022, "Political Violence Marches On, Unabated"

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  A Liberal Dose November 3, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Political Violence Marches on, Unabated”   This is the last edition before electi...

A Liberal Dose, Oct. 27, 2022 "Please Allow Me to (Re)Introduce Myself"

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  A Liberal Dose October 27, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Allow me to (re)introduce myself”   John Gottlied started his first column by int...
Monday, October 24, 2022

A Liberal Dose, October 20, 2022 "Vote to Support Our Schools, Our Teachers, and Our Kids"

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  A Liberal Dose October 20, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Vote to support our schools, our teachers, and our kids”   Late October, which me...
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Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land and in 2017 for the short story "Odell's Bones" (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois, and is currently a history professor at Tennessee Tech.
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