Opinion

He ‘never met a stranger’
Commentary, Opinion
By DEB WUETHRICH 
Sep 03, 2025
For years, I’ve heard the statement that certain people “never met a stranger.” I never quite understood what it meant. Like, to me, we encounter peop...
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In praise of the ordinary life
Commentary, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Sep 01, 2025
The children were gunned down in two places everyone should be safe: school and church. Right away, we tried to find an angle. Was the Minneapolis sch...
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Trump wins again … on the deconomy
Commentary, Opinion
By NICHOLAS L. WADDDY 
Sep 01, 2025
The Commerce Department's recently revised survey of the U.S. economy in the second quarter stunned “expert” economists, who are getting used to being...
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Let renewables walk on their own
Commentary, Opinion
Aug 29, 2025
President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” nixed a host of green energy handouts created during the Biden administration. In response, advocates f...
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Commentary, Opinion
J. PEDER ZANE RealClearPolitics 
Aug 29, 2025
Turns out, President Trump is letting retribution be his retribution. The candidate who promised that success would be his best revenge upon his torme...
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A $91 million cost-cutting system
Commentary, Opinion
Aug 29, 2025
The federal government has spent more than $91 million on implementing its cost-cutting Technology Business Management system, but the new system has ...
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Star Weaving fuels heart into comedy thriller ‘Eenie Meanie’
Commentary, Lifestyle, Lifestyles, ...
KELLEN M. QUIGLEY kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
Aug 28, 2025
So often today, streaming services have been the dumping ground for the mid-budget movies that used to be reliable moneymakers on the big screen. But ...
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Nudging the left back to Earth
Commentary, Opinion
Aug 27, 2025
In a memo addressed to “All Who Wish to Stop Donald Trump and MAGA,” the center-left think tank Third Way urged Democrats to end their fixation on wor...
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Blunder leads to unexpected scenic route
Commentary, Opinion
By DEB WUETHRICH 
Aug 27, 2025
Everyone makes mistakes. Smart people learn from them. For some, it takes more than one wrong turn for the lesson’s full impact. Some of these experie...
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IRS computers are ‘inoperable’
Commentary, Opinion
Aug 26, 2025
A contractor that received $1.5 million from the Internal Revenue Service for computer maintenance left some computers unusable for over a year, accor...
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Another pro-criminal law that needs to be fixed
Commentary, Opinion
By SEN. TOM O'MARA 
Aug 26, 2025
Sometimes in public policymaking the most important responsibility of all is to recognize a bad law and make it better, to admit that you got it wrong...
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Do you know what’s in your DNA?
Commentary, Opinion
Aug 26, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — Genetic information can be life-saving in a medical emergency, yet it’s still rarely collected from adults — even when doctors are st...
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National debt continues to threaten economy
Commentary, Opinion
Aug 25, 2025
Earlier this month, the national debt surpassed $37 trillion, twice what it was just a decade ago. Once upon a time, the national debt was the subject...
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