opinion

Is more police for schools the answer?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RYAN J. RUSAK Tribune News Service 
Jun 14, 2022
An extraordinary new interview with the Uvaldeschool district’s police chief ,Pete Arredondo, answers some lingering questions about how theMay 24mass...
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Should we consider banning kids from social media?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Jun 14, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas — When my Texas-loving 16-year-old niece came for a visit in the fall, she left the state disappointed with only one thing. She and ...
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Kemp and Pence are GOP heroes
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
May 27, 2022
Like Wyatt Earp after the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Donald Trump and his allies mounted up for a vendetta ride in Georgia. Unlike Earp and his poss...
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Letter to the Editor: Pass the NY Health Act
Letters To Editor, Local Columnists, Opinion
May 27, 2022
Imagine a world where people could get the healthcare they need from the provider they want regardless of income or employment status. Imagine a world...
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Don’t be penny-wise on Ukraine
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
May 20, 2022
Populist critics have gone after the new $40 billion in aid to Ukraine hammer and tongs. Donald Trump has complained that we are sending billions to U...
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Albany has yet another ethics glitch
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
May 16, 2022
Monday was the deadline for all state officials to file their personal financial disclosures, although some, like ComptrollerTom DiNapoliand Attorney ...
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The inextricable link between abortion and religion
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
May 16, 2022
There’s something admirable in the consistency of abortion’s most ardent opponents. If a fertilized egg is a full-fledged human life, its destruction ...
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DeSantis sets GOP agenda, and Dems should worry
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
May 16, 2022
The most intriguing politician in the Republican Party is an uncharismatic governor who's trying to make the GOP's culture war appealing to suburban m...
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Not the whole story on jobs
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
May 13, 2022
The 428,000 net new jobs last month in the Labor Department’s report is mildly encouraging since every major industry added workers. But the report al...
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Abortion is set to tear the country apart
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
GENE LYONS 
May 13, 2022
Think about it this way: If Justice Samuel Alito gets his way and the Trumpist Supreme Court majority voids Roe v. Wade, many states will be forced to...
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Shameful court protests threaten American order
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
May 13, 2022
There was something ridiculous about the half-a-dozen protestors in “Handmaid’s Tale” costumes showing up at Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s...
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Undo Cuomo’s revenge
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
May 12, 2022
New York’s political parties unfairly stifle independent candidates and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo was willing to exact political retribution, and even ...
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America’s addiction nightmare comes home
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
May 12, 2022
A few weeks ago, my husband and I lost a friend to an opioid overdose. He was not the first person we knew who died from an overdose, but he was perha...
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Now it’s Democrats painting GOP as too extreme
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
CARL P. LEUBSDORF Tribune News Service 
May 12, 2022
In the 2020 election, Republicans enjoyed substantial success in their efforts to demonize Democrats by labeling many as socialists and assailing thos...
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Victory Day speech shows how Russia can be defeated
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
May 11, 2022
When Vladimir Putin stood on a Red Square podium Monday, at the annual celebration of the Soviet victory in World War II over Nazi Germany, he looked ...
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