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DeSantis has hurdles to overcome
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Mar 06, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hasn’t announced that he’s running for president, but he’s doing a convincing job of acting like a candidate. DeSantis, who ...
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Will DeSantis rescue GOP or let them down?
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A.B. STODDARD 
Mar 05, 2023
Unfortunately for Ron DeSantis, expectations of him could not be higher. For a critical mass of Republicans seeking to move past Donald Trump, the Flo...
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What insulin should cost in America
Nation World, Opinion
Mar 05, 2023
A hearty thank you to Eli Lilly, one of the planet’s top three producers of insulin, for slashing the price of its most widely prescribed form of insu...
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Slash the US defense budget waste
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 03, 2023
To get a sense of just how big the American defense budget is, consider that this year’s budget increase, $80 billion, is larger than the entire defen...
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No end to Ukraine-Russo War in sight
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
NICHOLAS L. WADDY 
Mar 02, 2023
President Biden’s victory/self-congratulation tour of Kiev notwithstanding, as we enter the second year of the Russia-Ukraine War that we helped to pr...
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Buttigieg not positioned to be much help
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JULIANNA GOLDMAN Tribune News Service 
Mar 01, 2023
Note to politicians with presidential aspirations: Joining the Cabinet makes the path that much harder. Just ask Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigi...
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Pass bill for WTC responders and survivors
Local Columnists, Nation World, New York, ...
Mar 01, 2023
After years of effort from this column and elsewhere, in 2010 Congress created the World Trade Center Health Program and then in 2015 voted to keep it...
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For GOP, how big a check to Ukraine?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Mar 01, 2023
As the war in Ukraine begins its second year, a new Fox News poll shows Americans divided nearly down the middle over how much and how long the United...
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Depression doesn’t have to stop or kill John Fetterman
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JEFFERY MERRITT Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Feb 28, 2023
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — I rarely feel connected to politicians, regardless of their party or platform. Like the blue-collar people I grew up with, I just d...
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A $358M jet to shoot down balloon?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 28, 2023
While the country was infatuated with the saga of the Chinese spy balloon, few people know the price tag of the equipment used to pop the balloon: a w...
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Crypto fallout is far bigger than FTX
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 27, 2023
FTX was supposed to be a different kind of crypto currency exchange. Sure it was. It was new and safe and secure — really — and would allow even relat...
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The sad state of adolescence
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
GENE LYONS 
Feb 27, 2023
To hear people tell it, the kids are definitely not all right. According to The Washington Post, there’s “a crisis in American girlhood.” To Derek Tho...
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The absurd cleansing of Roald Dahl’s work
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 26, 2023
Like the rest of the sane universe, we couldn’t believe the gall of PuffinU.K.when word came out that the publishing house and theRoald Dahl Story Co....
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GOP can’t decide if it’s for Ukraine or not
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JACKIE CALMES Tribune News Service 
Feb 24, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — For years Joe Biden has told audiences, “This is not your father’s Republican Party.” He’s right. And perhaps nothing better illust...
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On debt limit, time to end business as usual
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
PAUL WINFREE Tribune News Service 
Feb 24, 2023
President Joe Biden has called for an increase in the debt ceiling. To avoid another fight with Congress on the issue ahead of the 2024 elections, he ...
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