Ronald Lebel: Why I oppose Mayor Levesque’s efforts to develop in the Lake Auburn watershed

Columns & Analysis

Published
June 26, 2022

Ronald Lebel: Why I oppose Mayor Levesque’s efforts to develop in the Lake Auburn watershed

What expert qualifications does Mayor Jason Levesque bring to this issue? He has no engineering or legal expertise, is not a scientist and knows nothing about operating public drinking water supplies. Why are his opinions entitled to any greater weight than ours?
Published
June 26, 2022

Cal Thomas: Skirting the issue

A U.S. Court of Appeals has recently ruled that North Carolina charter day schools cannot have dress codes based on a child's gender because as a "state actor," such codes violate laws on equal protection. Under the ruling, girls can no longer be required to wear dresses.
Published
June 26, 2022

Austin Bay: The Baltic noose the Kremlin fears

With its principle offensive ground forces fighting a dreadful war of attrition in eastern Ukraine, Russia really isn't in a position to militarily bully and intimidate NATO nations with martial tantrums. Yet over a four-day period Russia directed physical and verbal threats of war at three small nations on the Baltic Sea.
Published
June 26, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: We can be a nation bound by the aspiration to simple values

Tuesday’s House committee hearing shrank the devastation wrought by Donald Trump down to relatable dimensions of human lives and human loss, and that was important. But just as importantly, it illuminated the stark choice forced upon us by his willingness to lie, cheat and steal his way to victory.
Published
June 26, 2022

Rich Lowry: Don’t indict Trump

January 6 was indeed, as many people have remarked, a banana republic-worthy event, but the same would be true of a prosecution of a former president.

Published
June 25, 2022

Froma Harrop: The conversation about guns could be smarter

A bipartisan proposal in the Senate would at least limit access by the mentally ill. What it wouldn't do is prevent the not-yet-certified insane from buying these guns. The worst mass shooter in U.S. history — the monster who killed 58 and wounded over 500 in Las Vegas — was just your average loner with low self-esteem.
Published
June 24, 2022

Rich Lowry: How Joe Biden torched his credibility

The president's handling of events has been poor, and the same with his policies. But nothing has been quite as bad as his snakebit, maladroit, poorly informed, dishonest attempts to spin away the miserable results of his governance, especially on the economy.
Published
June 24, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Republicans are the threat

Truth is, violence — the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump — is the only reason many of us even know Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s name. The Illinois congressman is one of just two Republicans — Rep. Liz Cheney is the other — who had the moral fortitude to serve on the House committee investigating that attempted coup. Hence, the threats from fellow Republicans.
Published
June 22, 2022

Cal Thomas: The decline of a nation

Things once considered wrong and immoral are now paraded as the opposite and woe to those corporations, institutions and individuals that claim otherwise.
Published
June 20, 2022

Generation Z is getting a harsh lesson in stock risk

With a plummeting stock market, rising prices and interest rates that are still too low to curb inflation, it's hard to tell investors where to turn. No one can afford to sit out risk. That some people are finding themselves in a bear market saddled with overly risky portfolios suggests we need better financial literacy to explain the role of risk in investing — not classes where celebrities promote Bitcoin.

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