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  • Published
    November 26, 2023

    Jody Jalbert: Supporting strong communities through our local journalism

    We produce our journalism in service to our communities, knowing that informed communities are stronger communities and that informed conversations bring context to complex issues and help people make good decisions. 

  • Published
    November 26, 2023

    Froma Harrop: Mothers who work remotely are not ‘Mommies’

    If the stress is really rooted in the lack of child care, that is a matter for public policy. And if the unfairness is that both mother and father have jobs, but the woman ends up doing most of the cleaning and child care, that's something to be ironed out between the two of them.

  • Published
    November 25, 2023

    Joseph Philippon: Time matters, and is often the difference between life and death

    While we hope and pray that such a tragedy never happens again in our community, I believe it imperative that we do all we can to prevent or minimize in the future.

  • Published
    November 25, 2023

    Bob Neal: The Countryman: Who took ‘service’ out of the ‘service economy?’

    One reason stores put a worker at the self-checkout aisle is to stop thievery. The thievery that doesn’t get stopped raises losses and prices the rest of us pay to cover the loss to thieves.

  • Published
    November 21, 2023

    Rich Lowry: The new Arab street is here at home

    We can never forget the extent to which we ourselves, through determined inculcation in our own schools, have made students from right here in the United States haters of Israel and the West. Altogether, we've created the conditions for the ongoing cataract of anti-Israel agitation, coupled with outright antisemitism and harassment of Jews, that shows no signs of abating.

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  • Published
    November 19, 2023

    Bill Hiss: Senator Collins should tell us what she believes

    She has publicly made clear that Donald Trump would not be her choice for the Republican nomination. But she has been silent on the far more critical issue: is he fit to hold office at all?

  • Published
    November 19, 2023

    Clarence Page: Calls for Joe Biden not to run raise an age-old question we all face eventually

    It’s hard for anyone after a lifetime of work to know when it’s time to hang it up. Biden is having to come to grips with that now. Whatever he decides, unlike the rest of us, he has to do it in front of an entire nation.

  • Published
    November 19, 2023

    Austin Bay: The global cable and pipeline war under the sea

    Offshore infrastructure, transoceanic infrastructure and even seaports are very vulnerable to relatively simple types of disruptive and destructive sabotage by well-trained operatives.

  • Published
    November 19, 2023

    Cal Thomas: No fooling the voters

    Democrats may be hoping that Donald Trump’s legal problems will tank his re-election prospects, but they may be betting on the wrong horse. Their focus on Trump becoming the GOP nominee and easy to defeat again ignores the perception among a majority of voters — including Democrats — that Joe Biden is weak and too old for a second term.

  • Published
    November 19, 2023

    Froma Harrop: Actually, Biden is ‘polling’ really well

    Mainstream punditry continues to place enormous importance on that Times/Siena poll "finding" that Biden is in trouble. Both legal political prediction markets, PredictIt and Iowa, say it's quite the contrary.