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Opinion

Hold The ‘Epstein Class’ Accountable

Local Commentaries

I have no words for the Republicans who still support this administration after the evidence being released in the Epstein files. I have no words for those who boast that they are protecting children by villainizing transgender people, yell about rainbow posters in classrooms, and demand ...

Weapons Of Mass Distraction

Local Commentaries

The president who dodged the draft 5 different times during the Vietnam War has no problem sending Americans to fight and die in the Middle East. He did not bother to make the case for the urgency of Operation Epic Fury to the American people beforehand, announcing the attack at 2:30 Saturday ...

We Should Know Wars Are Hard To End

Local Commentaries

It is easy to start a war, but very difficult to end one. That has always been the case and still is. If you are in doubt, just ask Vladamir Putin how things are going in the war he started in Ukraine four years ago. Think about the Iraq War. We invaded Iraq in 2003. Saddam Hussein was ...

March Is A Sweet Month

Local Commentaries

In March, winter’s pact begins to weaken, no longer a treaty anyone or anything cares to oblige. Sometimes in the morning you hear the birds have returned—at least the brave ones, and on a warm March day you spy buds at the tips of trees, and you hear the collective sigh of humanity ride ...

How Far Is It Going To Go, Part 2

Local Commentaries

Last week this forum took on something happening in many professional sports, specifically in my favorite sport, dubbed the “American Pastime.” Unfortunately, the buck, or in many cases not, the bucks, doesn’t/don’t stop in with the pros, it seems to have (and is seemingly increasing in ...

Voting Rights Act Is Before High Court

Local Commentaries

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is before the U.S. Supreme Court again, this time in Louisiana v. Callais. After extensive back and forth among the state Legislature, the governor’s office, and the federal judiciary, Louisiana—with its six congressional districts—drew a second ...