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Declining life expectancy in the US
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Sep 01, 2022
Not for a hundred years has there been such a pronounced drop in U.S. life expectancy, from 79 years in 2019 to 76 just two years later, in 2021, acco...
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Republicans can’t run and hide on abortion
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Aug 30, 2022
The Republican Party only had about a half-century to prepare for the end of Roe v. Wade yet is still scared and confused now that the late, unlamente...
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Lessons learned from PPP loans
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 29, 2022
As the pandemic forced widespread closures in 2020, federal policymakers were staring down a torrent of job losses. Millions of workers were being lai...
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Take a good look at Newsom, DeSantis
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Aug 29, 2022
Pundits like myself sometimes count on wisdom in telling readers who will get elected in a presidential race while forgetting there are 1,001 events t...
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Will Trump be indicted? Still too soon to say
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Aug 29, 2022
Every month, the evidence of former President Donald Trump’s lawless behavior builds. On Friday, a judge released the affidavit the Justice Department...
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Biden’s student debt debacle
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Aug 28, 2022
It’s hard to top President Joe Biden’s Afghan withdrawal for reckless policymaking, but his student-loan forgiveness scheme is a contender for his sec...
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Princess Diana still fascinates us
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
CARLA HALL Los Angeles Times 
Aug 27, 2022
L OS ANGELES (TNS) — On Aug. 31, it will have been 25 years since Diana, the Princess of Wales, died in a Paris car crash and swept the world into mas...
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Debunking a Hollywood myth
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
MICHAEL HILTZIK Tribune News Service 
Aug 26, 2022
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Hollywood loves few things more than retailing myths and legends about itself. Few of these yarns have had a longer life than what...
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Will GOP drop ball in Senate races?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 25, 2022
With control of a currently 50-50 Senate up for grabs, it looks like the GOP could well come up short even in a favorable political environment becaus...
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Is fear for America justified?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
NICHOLAS L. WADDY 
Aug 25, 2022
Two recent polls ought to unsettle us profoundly, because of the extremely dark picture they paint of our country’s short-term future. The first poll ...
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Joe Biden still dragging his party down
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Aug 24, 2022
There has been a surge of optimism among Democrats lately when it comes to November’s midterm elections. The short version of the thinking is: Maybe w...
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In US politics, moderates still run the show
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DAVID O. HOPKINS Bloomberg Opinion 
Aug 23, 2022
Last week’s enactment of the 2022 budget-reconciliation bill, also known as the Inflation Reduction Act, is being treated by many analysts as a major ...
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Can CNN shed its liberal bias
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JOE BATTENFELD Boston Herald 
Aug 23, 2022
BOSTON (TNS) — CNN and its Trump-hating anchors and free-falling ratings are in the middle of a major retool, but can it even be saved? Viewers are fl...
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