Cartoon for Thursday, April 29

Leonard Pitts Jr.: We’ve failed our children

You are our children, and we love you very much. But obviously, we love guns even more.

In rebuttal: Cynthia Phinney: PRO Act gives workers stronger voice

Rep. Josh Morris (R-Turner) recently wrote a confusing and misleading letter to the editor (“PRO Act not good for small businesses,” April 17) about the PRO Act, federal legislation that would allow workers to form unions free from employer harassment, intimidation and coercion. Rep. Morris erroneously claimed that the bill will somehow “give workers less of […]

Tom Anthoine, Fern Masse and Ralph Tuttle: Delahanty was a friend to L-A sports

The recent passing of Thomas E. Delahanty II, former Superior Court Chief Justice and U.S. Attorney, brought to mind more details of his support to local and state athletics. While he frequently would humorously discuss his football career as a Lewiston High School Blue Devil, his greatest gift to Twin City sports was his involvement […]

Cartoon for Wednesday, April 28

Wheeler Lowell: White privilege ‘a system we were born into’

I write in response to Nancy Leeman (“Being white doesn’t always mean privilege,” April 9). I sympathize with her story of a difficult and abusive childhood — how couldn’t I? Hearing the term “white privilege” can feel like an attack. I know that; I am a white person who has bristled at it in the […]

Cal Thomas: Power back to the people

The reason government has become so dysfunctional and unwieldy is that it has for too long exceeded the boundaries originally set for it. The Founders wanted government to be limited, so the people would be mostly unlimited in their pursuit of happiness, accompanied by individual responsibility and accountability.

Cartoon for Tuesday, April 27

Ben Lounsbury: Sudden hearing loss could hit you, too

Recently, I woke up in the morning with reduced hearing in one ear. I am a retired ENT physician, and I immediately suspected the diagnosis: sudden idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss, a very common disease. If people live to 80 years of age, they have an almost 1% chance of suffering from it. But almost nobody […]

Rev. Richard Killmer and Sue Inches: Pine Tree Amendment protects our environmental rights

If the Pine Tree Amendment passes, we’ll be sending a message to the world that a clean and healthy environment is our identity and our priority — for the long term. It would protect investments in business and real estate by ensuring that the environment will remain healthy and clean. It would protect the health of our children and grandchildren, and ensure that no Legislature, governor or law can take their fundamental environmental rights away.