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There should be no ‘woke’ in baseball
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Jun 16, 2023
It’s not unusual for prayer to play a role in sports. “Spahn, Sain, and pray for rain!” was the famous refrain of Boston Braves fans in 1948, when the...
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Continue caution on rate hikes by Fed
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jun 16, 2023
After 10 consecutive interest rate hikes meant to squeeze down inflation, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday held steady at a benchmark rate of between ...
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Historic charges require historic coverage
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
DAN SHELLEY Miami Herald 
Jun 15, 2023
MIAMI (TNS) — The 45th president of the United States has been charged with 37 felony counts related to his handling of classified documents in Florid...
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Taxpayers caddy for the PGA
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jun 14, 2023
One of the many questions that arose from the stunning merger of the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, an enterprise of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, is ...
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Life is … complicated
Commentary, Daily Headlines, Local Columnists
DEB WUETHRICH 
Jun 14, 2023
I took $30 in cash into the gas station one recent day. I hoped the quick run into the pay-first store would fill ‘er up from the quarter tank or so t...
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Donald Trump’s arraignment
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
BYRON YORK 
Jun 14, 2023
A few days have passed since the Justice Department informed former President Donald Trump that he had been indicted. Some of the main issues involved...
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Biden’s plan to tax money that isn’t money
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JAY AMBROSE 
Jun 12, 2023
President Joe Biden, eager to get more tax money to pay for the faults of others along with his own disastrously irresponsible, inflationary overspend...
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The last gasps of the party of Reagan
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JACKIE CALMES 
Jun 12, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Win one as the Gipper? Good luck with that. This week the Republican field for the presidency took near-final form, and it became c...
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Trump’s GOP rivals are right to seize the moment
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
JONATHAN. BERNSTEIN 
Jun 11, 2023
With three Republicans formally declaring their candidacies for president this week and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez moving closer to his own announceme...
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Gavin Newsom’s 28th Amendment
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
SUSAN SHELLEY 
Jun 11, 2023
In George Washington’s farewell address, our nation’s first president spoke about the importance of the people’s power to amend the U.S. Constitution....
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Don’t erase the Anglo-Saxons
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RICH LOWRY 
Jun 09, 2023
It’s official. The Anglo-Saxons are getting canceled. The move comes more than 1,000 years too late for the previously ascendant Romano-British who co...
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House of cards: Albany betrays New Yorkers
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
Jun 08, 2023
Progressives in the state Senate and Assembly, who never miss a chance to complain that New York is becoming increasingly unaffordable for working- an...
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Platforms should pay for news
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jun 07, 2023
Social media platforms have come of age posting news that others produce, without paying for it. When pressed for payments by news organizations that ...
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End permanent normal trade relations with China
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
SCOTT PAUL 
Jun 07, 2023
Decoupling. Derisking. Strategic competition. Call it what you will, but politics, public policy and many private sector actors have shifted decisivel...
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Mike Pence’s ill-starred presidential run
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
BYRON YORK 
Jun 07, 2023
On paper, has there ever been a more qualified candidate for president than Mike Pence? Twelve years in the House of Representatives, four as governor...
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