Opinion

Putting country, state or county over party
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LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Oct 26, 2022
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (TNS) — What if the way to break through our polarized politics was to reward those willing to cross the partisan divide for the greate...
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Joe Biden’s ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ slander
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BYRON YORK 
Oct 26, 2022
Early voting began in Georgia several days ago. There is, of course, intense interest in both the state’s Senate race, with University of Georgia foot...
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Great art is not an enemy of the climate
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RICH LOWRY 
Oct 25, 2022
Climate activists have found a new target — the greatest masterpieces in the history of Western art. Heretofore, no one thought that Claude Monet’s “H...
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Abortion not the boost Democrats hoped
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 24, 2022
Joe Biden wants voters to focus on abortion rights. Last week, just three weeks before the midterm elections, the president said that if Democrats do ...
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Higher ed tuition rates must come down
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JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Oct 24, 2022
Whither America? I don’t know and I hate discouraging news but how do you avoid it because, even when you look at higher education, you have to lower ...
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Divided government will be an unholy mess
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Oct 24, 2022
WASHINGTON (TNS) — With Election Day two weeks away, Republican prospects of taking control of the House of Representatives, already strong, appear to...
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An invitation-only party in NY
New York, Opinion
Oct 23, 2022
On Wednesday, in a one-sentence summary order, threeManhattanfederal appeals court judges sealedNew Yorkas a two-party state. Without explanation or e...
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You don’t have to watch Kanye West
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LZ GRANDERSON Tribune News Service 
Oct 23, 2022
Like a lot of fans of Ye — the artist formerly known as Kanye West — I went from just hearing his music to listening to him when I heard his 2004 quas...
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Why predictions of abortion driving votes are flopping
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CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Oct 23, 2022
When the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision came down in June and overturned Roe v. Wade, pro-lifers everywhere rejoiced. Their efforts over the last 50 y...
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Limit the power of the governor
New York, Opinion
Oct 21, 2022
Time and time again during the pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his successor, Gov. Kathy Hochul, invoked special executive powers in the name of a hea...
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When election-integrity claims are not crazy at all
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SUSAN SHELLEY 
Oct 21, 2022
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — If you want voters to have confidence in the integrity of elections, you won’t get there by pounding the table and fiercely denoun...
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RTW: Will America as founded survive?
Local Columnists, Opinion, Readers Turn To Write
ART SIMMONS 
Oct 20, 2022
I am, as many are, concerned about where we are heading as a country in which government, both federal and state, controls more and more of our lives....
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How worried should we be about new COVID variants?
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LISA JARVIS Tribune News Service 
Oct 20, 2022
Some rather alarming headlines recently circulated about the newest members of the omicron family. “Nightmare COVID variant,” read one. “The most immu...
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Iran regime on borrowed time
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JAMES JAY CARAFANO and ADAM MILSTEIN Tribune News Service 
Oct 20, 2022
Despite weeks of brutal repression, ordinary Iranians of all ages and all sections of society, and from all regions, continue their mass protests, cal...
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Reward demagogues, get more demagogues
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JONATHAN BERNSTEIN Tribune News Service 
Oct 19, 2022
The news last week that former presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard was leaving the Democratic Party might not have seemed at first like a very big de...
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Biden rule would harm gig workers
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 19, 2022
Inflation not seen in 40 years. Higher interest rates. Unemployment rising. A recession getting worse every day. One would have thought the White Hous...
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Who’s more in lockstep, GOP or Democrats?
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BYRON YORK 
Oct 19, 2022
There was an extraordinary Senate debate this week in Orem, Utah, between Sen. Mike Lee and challenger Evan McMullin. It was extraordinary in part bec...
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