Leonard Pitts: Times these days when you simply must close your mind

I miss the days when it was possible to have a thoughtful debate on a substantive matter with a political opposite. The loss of that offers superfluous evidence that we have become a people without common goals, common facts and thus, common ground.

Bob Neal: The Countryman: Show us what you’re doing

Accountability arises from transparency. Only if we can see what government is doing for and to us can we have accountability and then justice.

Auburn Conservation Commission: Thanks for cleanup of parks, neighborhoods

The Auburn Conservation Commission would like to send a huge shout-out of thanks to the more than 40 people who showed up April 24 to help clean up parks and neighborhoods in Auburn. They gave several hours on a beautiful morning to help this community shine. They rolled up their sleeves, wrangled their pickers, thrashed […]

Cal Thomas: Virginia flunks math

Instead of elevating students to standards that would help them achieve more in life, we lower those standards, sending a message that underachievement is OK.

Cartoon for Friday, April 30

Froma Harrop: Do population changes help red America or blue America?

Do these population changes also alter the states’ politics? In many cases, yes, and that generally does not bode well for Republicans. Texas, for example, voted for Donald Trump in 2020, but many of its urban areas did not — and those are the parts of Texas booming with transplants from outside the state.

Harold Savage: Police need support from citizens

I assume or hope most of us are tired of the police being criticized no matter what they do or don’t do. Those who want the police defunded or eliminated should maybe move somewhere that has no law enforcement, and see how that works for them. And who will they call whenever they need what […]

Deanne Danforth: ‘Our Republican friends have become unhinged’

I saw a sign that said “Has anyone thought to unplug America and plug it back in?” Since Trump lost the election our Republican friends have become unhinged. They’ve forgotten America’s Constitution gives people the right to assemble in protest. Some states are changing laws to take away that First Amendment right. North Dakota, North […]

Rich Lowry: Joe Biden’s radical gambit

Biden’s drive to make himself the next FDR and erect a massive progressive edifice on the slightest of political foundations is monumentally arrogant and almost certainly bound to fail.

In rebuttal: Marc Greenwood: Thomas missed mark on Chauvin column

I write in rebuttal to Cal Thomas’ April 25 column, “The Chauvin verdict.” Thomas agreed the evidence amassed against Derek Chauvin proved him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. However, that seemed to trouble him. Because he reverses field, and suggests demonstrations, riots, and looting influenced the jury, media, and public opinion. That assertion contains enough […]