Commentary

Americans are fixers; their troops should be, too
Commentary, Opinion
MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG, Bloomberg Opinion 
Sep 03, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — Here’s something that Democrats and Republicans ought to be able to agree on: When Americans serving in the military are trying to pr...
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He ‘never met a stranger’
Commentary, Opinion
By DEB WUETHRICH 
Sep 03, 2025
For years, I’ve heard the statement that certain people “never met a stranger.” I never quite understood what it meant. Like, to me, we encounter peop...
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Health Matters: Don’t hesitate, vaccinate!
Commentary, Opinion
By ATHENA GODET-CALOGERAS 
Sep 01, 2025
As a child, many decades ago, I suffered from both measles and chicken pox, enduring the accompanying fever, coughing, red blotches or blisters from t...
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Celebrating the labor that built this country
Commentary, Opinion
Sep 01, 2025
Labor Day has a different history in America than in Europe, points out Julia Vitullo-Martin, editor of “Breaking Away: The Future of Cities.” Europe’...
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In praise of the ordinary life
Commentary, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Sep 01, 2025
The children were gunned down in two places everyone should be safe: school and church. Right away, we tried to find an angle. Was the Minneapolis sch...
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Trump wins again … on the deconomy
Commentary, Opinion
By NICHOLAS L. WADDDY 
Sep 01, 2025
The Commerce Department's recently revised survey of the U.S. economy in the second quarter stunned “expert” economists, who are getting used to being...
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Let renewables walk on their own
Commentary, Opinion
Aug 29, 2025
President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” nixed a host of green energy handouts created during the Biden administration. In response, advocates f...
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Commentary, Opinion
J. PEDER ZANE RealClearPolitics 
Aug 29, 2025
Turns out, President Trump is letting retribution be his retribution. The candidate who promised that success would be his best revenge upon his torme...
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A $91 million cost-cutting system
Commentary, Opinion
Aug 29, 2025
The federal government has spent more than $91 million on implementing its cost-cutting Technology Business Management system, but the new system has ...
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Star Weaving fuels heart into comedy thriller ‘Eenie Meanie’
Commentary, Lifestyle, Lifestyles, ...
KELLEN M. QUIGLEY kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
Aug 28, 2025
So often today, streaming services have been the dumping ground for the mid-budget movies that used to be reliable moneymakers on the big screen. But ...
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Nudging the left back to Earth
Commentary, Opinion
Aug 27, 2025
In a memo addressed to “All Who Wish to Stop Donald Trump and MAGA,” the center-left think tank Third Way urged Democrats to end their fixation on wor...
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