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Friday, October 18, 2024

A Liberal Dose, October 17, 2024 "We Are All Doing It Together"

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  A Liberal Dose October 17, 2024 Troy D. Smith “We are all doing it together”   The purpose of this column is to be political -in...
Sunday, October 13, 2024

A Liberal Dose, October 10, 2024 "The Stormy Seas Have Followed Us"

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  A Liberal Dose October 10, 2024 Troy D. Smith “The Stormy Seas Have Followed Us”   Who’d have ever expected that so much destruc...

A Liberal Dose, Sept. 26, 2024 "Hopefully We Are Turning a Corner"

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  A Liberal Dose Sept. 26, 2024 Troy D. Smith “Hopefully we are turning a corner” Remember a couple of weeks ago, when I outlined all the mo...
Sunday, September 22, 2024

A Liberal Dose, Sept. 19, 2024 “My Experience With Haitian Immigrants”

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A Liberal Dose September 1 9 , 2024 Troy D. Smith “ My experience with Haitian immigrants ” Between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one, I s...

A Liberal Dose, Sept. 12, 2024 “What a Crazy Ride This Summer Has Been”

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  A Liberal Dose September 12, 2024 Troy D. Smith “What a Crazy Ride This Summer Has Been”   Things have been pretty hectic and unpredictabl...

A Liberal Dose, Sept. 5, 2024 “The Tide Is Turning for Unions”

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  A Liberal Dose September 5, 2024 Troy D. Smith “The Tide Is Turning for Unions”   I hope you all enjoyed the recent Labor Day weekend. And...
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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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