Commentary

No mixed messages on our highways
Commentary, Nation World
Jan 17, 2024
The Federal Highway Administration is not amused. The agency just released an 1,100-page manual on traffic control devices that includes the admonitio...
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Explaining Trump’s big win
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
BYRON YORK 
Jan 17, 2024
DES MOINES, Iowa — Even though it was the first time Republicans had voted in this presidential contest, there was a last-stand mentality here in Iowa...
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There’s no NY turnaround in sight
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
SEN. TOM O'MARA 
Jan 16, 2024
Gov. Kathy Hochul opened her State of the State message to the Legislature last week with a surprising proclamation: “The State of New York is stronge...
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MLK’s dream still necessary, timely
Commentary, Nation World
Jan 15, 2024
Even timeless truths will fade from the public mind if there’s not a conscious effort to re-emphasize them. Consider Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous d...
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Pondering a New York winter day
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
DEB WUETHRICH 
Jan 15, 2024
Where would you most like to be on a New York blustery winter day? A few would say, “About time!” and head to the ski resorts. Some might watch for co...
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What Democrats will never do to defend democracy
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 15, 2024
President Joe Biden went to Valley Forge to give a big speech telling us how much he cares about defending democracy against the threat represented by...
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MLK holiday should be a day on
Commentary, Nation World
Jan 12, 2024
On Monday, many workers in the U.S. will have the day off in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday observance. It’s a day we stop to re...
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Tuition hikes for SUNY? Not so fast
Commentary, New York
Jan 11, 2024
New York should not return to the days of solving SUNY’s fiscal problems on the backs of students and parents. A decade ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and sta...
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Don’t be fooled, snow becoming a thing of the past
Commentary, Nation World, New York
MARK GONGLOFF Bloomberg Opinion 
Jan 11, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — If you’re like me and look forward to snow about as much as you look forward to outpatient surgery, then recent winters have been alm...
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Is Trump really a ‘man of faith’?
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
DAVID MILLS Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Jan 10, 2024
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — More than half the nation’s Republicans see Donald Trump as a “person of faith,” meaning some kind of serious Christian, which stri...
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The AWOL defense secretary
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 10, 2024
Anyone following how weak and passive the U.S. has been in the face of provocations from our adversaries in the Middle East might conclude that the se...
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Where, oh where, is the defense secretary?
Commentary, Nation World
Jan 09, 2024
It was a page from the authoritarian state playbook: A high-ranking government official falls ill, yet the development is kept under wraps. Questions ...
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Keeping my eyes on the road
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
JERRY ZEZIMA Tribune News Service 
Jan 09, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — I have never been a visionary — or even, since I have two eyes, a double visionary — but I recently read a newspaper report about dri...
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