Commentary

Blunder leads to unexpected scenic route
Commentary, Opinion
By DEB WUETHRICH 
Aug 27, 2025
Everyone makes mistakes. Smart people learn from them. For some, it takes more than one wrong turn for the lesson’s full impact. Some of these experie...
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IRS computers are ‘inoperable’
Commentary, Opinion
Aug 26, 2025
A contractor that received $1.5 million from the Internal Revenue Service for computer maintenance left some computers unusable for over a year, accor...
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National debt continues to threaten economy
Commentary, Opinion
Aug 25, 2025
Earlier this month, the national debt surpassed $37 trillion, twice what it was just a decade ago. Once upon a time, the national debt was the subject...
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Domestic tranquility: A shared federal responsibility
Commentary, Opinion
By BILL O'BRIEN InsideSources.com/TNS 
Aug 25, 2025
When you have lived most of your years within an institution, you may be able to see only what the institution has been, not what it must now become. ...
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Volunteer fire departments need your help
Commentary, Opinion
By ASSEMBLYMAN WILL BARCLAY 
Aug 22, 2025
Volunteer firefighters exemplify what it means to be a good community member. They selflessly give countless hours of their time to protect the homes,...
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With hordes of drones, what could go wrong?
Commentary, Opinion
By DEREK DONOVAN you The Kansas City Star 
Aug 22, 2025
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (TNS) — Imagine you order a new toaster from Amazon. Instead of one of those dark blue electric vans rolling up your driveway, a four...
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We’ve always fought about jeans
Commentary, Opinion
By STEPHEN MIHM Bloomberg Opinion 
Aug 20, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — The American Eagle Outfitters Inc. Sydney Sweeney “Good Jeans” controversy happened in late July — a lifetime ago in internet terms —...
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Commentary, Opinion
Aug 20, 2025
Donald Trump’s diplomatic efforts to stop the Ukraine conflict remain fluid, the details murky. But the fact that the president has in the span of onl...
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Abolishing mail voting will hurt GOP more than help
Commentary, Opinion
By MARY ELLEN KLAS Bloomberg Opinion 
Aug 20, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — If President Donald Trump were to issue an executive order to abolish mail-in voting, as he announced he would on social media on Mon...
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Foreign swimming pools get $1.2 million
Commentary, Opinion
Aug 19, 2025
The State Department spent $1.2 million on upgrades to swimming pools in seven foreign countries in the last four years, according to an analysis from...
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The New York State Fair as a free speech battleground
Commentary, Opinion
By ROY S. GUTTERMAN syracuse.com 
Aug 19, 2025
SYRACUSE (TNS) — The lead singer of the alt-rock band the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus opened up a debate on free speech issues, in of all places, the New Y...
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You want to leave TikTok? Good luck
Commentary, Opinion
By AUTUMN DORSEY 
Aug 19, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Trying to delete TikTok starts with a tap and ends with second thoughts. Everything in between feels tedious as your decision is re...
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Commentary, Opinion
Aug 18, 2025
It’s one thing to deploy United States military troops in the aid of the police force in Washington, D.C., however unusual that may be. It’s another t...
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Earmarks return from the dead
Commentary, Opinion
Aug 18, 2025
Like a bad dream, thousands of Congressional earmarks that were thrown out during last year’s appropriation process will potentially receive federal f...
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