Opinion

Can interruptions be opportunities?
Commentary, Opinion
By DEB WUETHRICH 
Oct 29, 2025
I recently came across a writing by the late great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that has aligned with some things I’ve been considering lately. He wrote...
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Kristi Noem buys two luxury jets
Commentary, Opinion
Oct 28, 2025
Air traffic controllers across the country are working without pay during the government shutdown as flight delays cause huge issues for travelers. Ho...
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The real cost of America’s reliance on trade with China
Commentary, Opinion
By CHRISTIAN B. TEETER Los Angeles Times 
Oct 28, 2025
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — For more than two decades, the U.S.-China trading relationship has been at the center of globalization’s story: low-cost goods for...
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Commentary, Opinion
Oct 27, 2025
What were the odds when the sports industry married the gaming industry that the union would eventually produce a scandal? And now it has arrived. The...
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GOP must address its young, racist chatters
Commentary, Opinion
By KAITLYN BUSS The Detroit News 
Oct 27, 2025
DETROIT (TNS) — Chats from young Republicans revealed recently by Politico expose a dark streak of the conservative movement that should bother anyone...
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Can America afford to reopen the government?
Commentary, Opinion
By ALLISON SCHRAGER Bloomberg Opinion 
Oct 24, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — What is the welfare state America wants, and what is the one it can afford? This is not a question Americans are ready to discuss — s...
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Guest Comment: Protect the Adirondacks supports Prop 1
Commentary, Opinion
By CLAUDIA BRAYMER and CHRISTOPHER AMATO 
Oct 24, 2025
Protect the Adirondacks supports Proposal 1 to amend   Article 14, Section 1,  the “forever wild” clause of the New York State Constitution, to author...
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Guest Comment: ‘Youth Have Seen Enough Tobacco’
Commentary, Opinion
By JONATHAN CHAFFEE 
Oct 23, 2025
“Youth Have Seen Enough Tobacco” was the slogan for Seen Enough Tobacco Day, an annual day of action Oct. 13 in New York and led by youth members of R...
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Silence about the state of education in New York
Commentary, Opinion
By ZILVINAS SILENAS 
Oct 23, 2025
ALBANY — A recent analysis by National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) lamented the declining state of U.S. education by highlighting how sc...
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MAGA World versus Thomas Massie
Commentary, Opinion
Oct 23, 2025
Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, is one of the last of his kind in Congress. Elected in 2012 amid the Tea Party movement, Massie has been a ...
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Food prices could go even higher after these ICE raids
Commentary, Opinion
By PATRICIA LOPEZ Bloomberg Opinion 
Oct 22, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — The U.S. Labor Department is sounding a stark warning that the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has devastated the ranks ...
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Democrats’ amnesia about Biden-era lawfare
Commentary, Opinion
By KENIN M. SPIVAK RealClearPolitics 
Oct 22, 2025
Democrats who denounce federal indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James as unprecedented weaponizati...
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Federal deficit for FY25 is almost $2 trillion
Commentary, Opinion
Oct 22, 2025
The federal deficit was $1.8 trillion in fiscal year 2025, according to preliminary estimates published by the Congressional Budget Office. That’s $8 ...
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