April 4, 2026

The New Citizens Press

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My Answer – 9-21

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By Billy Graham
Tribune Media Services
 
Q: My husband and I just lost our home. We got talked into buying it with nothing down and low payments the first two years, and we just didn’t think about what would happen later. Now we’re back in a rented trailer. We’re so discouraged we don’t know what to do. Maybe you’ll have some encouraging words. – Mrs. N.H.
 

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me2u- Cliche’- 9-21

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By Melik
 
It was two and a half years ago and I was not in a good place mentally. My life seemed to be a perpetual pendulum of positive and negative. I was surrounded by negative people that made dealing with everyday life more difficult. I was surviving but I was suffering.

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Excuse me, are you listening? – 9-21

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Dear Readers,

 
Karma is something else!
 
Karma is a law in Hinduism, which says that every act you do, no matter how small, will eventually return to the doer with equal impact. Good will be returned with good and bad with bad. 

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Teen Talk: Teen Pregnancy

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 By Kasserine Tyler-Hicks

 
The other night I was watching a movie on Lifetime called The Pregnancy Pact. This movie was about a group of girls at a high school who made a pact to get pregnant. In one school, there were eighteen girls pregnant at the same time, all under the age of 18.

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Movie Review: “Red”

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Studio:   Summit Entertainment

Plot:     A team of retired secret agents embark on an impossible, cross-country mission to break into the top-secret CIA headquarters, where they will uncover one of the biggest conspiracies in government history.
Cast:     Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban
Rating:     PG-13
Bottom Line:     ***
 
 
By Laurence Washington
 
Die Hard Bruce Willis stars as an ex-CIA agent Frank Moses who has been tagged as “RED,” which refers to his alert level (“retired: extremely dangerous”) by the agency. The film, which attempts to answer the question, is older better, opens up with a black ops hit team invading Moses’ home at night. Although, there are about 10 members of the hit squad trying to kill him, they don’t stand a chance, because in Die Hard fashion, Moses eliminates them one-by-one.

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Exercise Lowers Blood Pressure in Kids, Adults

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By Eric Heiden M.D.

Tribune Media Services
 
More and more kids are being diagnosed with what was once thought to be an almost exclusively adult malady: high blood pressure. These children join the large contingent of American adults — estimated to be 25 percent of the population — who also have high blood pressure. New research shows that exercise lowers blood pressure in children as effectively as it does in adults.
 

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Retire Smart: Shop Around for Medicare Drug Plan This Fall

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By Mark Miller

Tribune Media Services
 
Seniors can shop around for Medicare D prescription drug plans or Medicare Advantage managed care plans during an annual enrollment window that runs from November 15 to December 31. With dozens of plans available in most parts of the country, Medicare shopping can be a complex chore. 

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News Spotlight: Michigan resident Rosemarie Wilson Receives National Poetry Awards

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Photo: Rosemarie Wilson, author of “One Single Rose . . . Poetry Blossomed from a Rose Core” accepting the New & Upcoming Poet of the Year Award at the 2010 National Poetry Award Ceremony in Raleigh, North Carolina on August 22, 2010.

Wilson’s “Eyes Back to Basics” also wins 1st Place in the Detroit Writers’ Guild 2010 Paul Laurence Dunbar Poetry Contest.

Courtesy photo 

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Schuler Books & Music welcomes New York Times Bestselling Author Victoria Rowell

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 LANSING, MI — Victoria Rowell is a New York Times Bestselling author, Award-winning actress and lecturer.  Rowell will be at Schuler Books & Music, 2820 Towne Centre Blvd., on Monday, November 1.

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