opinion

Dems losing strategically
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
May 10, 2022
While Democrats were spending their political energies enforcing gender-neutral vocabulary to please their progressive base, Republicans were executin...
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The 2024 presidential election is already strange
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JONATHAN BERNSTEIN Tribune News Service 
May 10, 2022
The Cook Report’s Amy Walter points out that whether former President Donald Trump takes another run at the Oval Office or not, the 2024 presidential ...
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The nursing profession is rooted in strength
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
PAULINE HOFFMANN Special to The Era 
May 08, 2022
Each May is National Nurses’ Month — a month-long celebration and commemoration of the work our nurses do to keep us healthy. National Nurses’ Week wa...
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The Supreme Court has always been political
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
STEPHEN L. CARTER Tribune News Service 
May 08, 2022
In the swirling days since what I suppose we should just call The Leak, a significant theme has been the argument that the Supreme Court has grown dee...
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COVID toll now part of the American fabric
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
May 06, 2022
To say it is not to fully absorb it: Our nation of 330 million souls has lost one million lives in just over two years to a virus that landed here in ...
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A real Mother’s Day gift? Flexible jobs and benefits
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
LIYA PALAGASHVILI Tribune News Service 
May 06, 2022
This Mother’s Day is my first as a new mom. Now, I join the choir of women who have long voiced the challenges of balancing motherhood and a career. T...
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Scalia was right — again
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
May 06, 2022
Justice Antonin Scalia was among the most prescient Supreme Court justices in American history, and the firestorm over the leak of Justice Samuel Alit...
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Move all NY state, local primaries to August
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
May 05, 2022
Under state law, today New York’s local boards of elections will certify their ballots for the June 28 primary. But wait, you ask, wasn’t the primary ...
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Give peace a chance in America’s culture wars
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
May 05, 2022
I have a confession when it comes to the culture war our society is mired in: I consider myself a pacifist on this front. As the battles rage on betwe...
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Take two on a No. 2 in NY
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
May 04, 2022
The New York Legislature can move mighty slow on weighty political matters. In 1776, they abstained on joining with the 12 other colonies to declare i...
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The Biden administration’s transgender decree
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
May 04, 2022
One way to shut down debate on a contentious subject is to declare that there is no debate on the subject. Everyone, absolutely everyone, agrees with ...
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Stumbling Hochul gives Suozzi hope in Dem primary
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union 
May 04, 2022
ALBANY (TBS) — Tom Suozzi’s late November announcement that he would run for governor was mostly met with confusion and indifference, in part because ...
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America’s chip problem
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
May 03, 2022
America faces a serious economic and national security risk when it comes to manufacturing semiconductor chips that are integral to daily life in the ...
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A shocking assault on the Supreme Court
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
May 03, 2022
Despite what you might have learned in high school civics, the Supreme Court really only has one role in our system of government — to uphold Roe v. W...
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Teachers lay the foundation for our children
Local Columnists, Opinion
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
May 03, 2022
It’s Teacher Appreciation Week. After all that time of having children at home, parents should be praising teachers from the rooftops this year. The p...
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Letter: It’s Teacher Appreciation Week
Letters To Editor, Opinion
May 03, 2022
Educators, you are doing it. You are resilient, dedicated and compassionate, which allows you to adapt to a changing world of education. You are amazi...
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Biden crashing with Hispanic voters. Here’s why
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
May 02, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas — Most home-school mom co-op conversations don’t delve too deeply into politics. But when the suddenly astronomical cost of feeding ...
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