Opinion Columns
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Retail pirates don’t fear store workers or the law. EnoughJan 16, 2024 11:07 am - Rep. Dina Titus, a Nevada Democrat., was in the cosmetics corner at the Walgreens at Eastern and Tropicana avenues when she saw a man come into the store, walk up to wher...
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Stark choices face Congress on immigration, Social SecurityJan 16, 2024 10:57 am - Apparently, House Speaker Mike Johnson has told senators that their bipartisan border security bill is DOA when it reaches the House, though the Senate bill is not quite ...
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As hostages' lives count down, Hamas has reason to smileJan 16, 2024 3:00 am - While Israeli and American hostages sit, bloody and terrified, chained, bound and caged in underground dungeons in Gaza, their kidnappers were given yet more encouragemen...
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Celebrate King’s life by living his dreamJan 13, 2024 12:13 pm - As we approach what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 95th birthday, I am writing to encourage everyone to honor the legacy of the civil rights icon by working...
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Lights at the end of dayJan 12, 2024 2:15 pm - Understand. I live in an urban area full of old multifamily homes and Hyundai sedans with duct tape on the upholstery. This means that my small, northeastern city looks b...
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Where was Lloyd?Jan 11, 2024 12:24 pm - It is exactly what Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III did not want. Clearly, he didn't want anyone to know that he, like millions of American men, had been diagnosed with...
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Populist politicians aren't so divided on economic issues, and that's bad newsJan 11, 2024 12:10 pm - The political landscape is often portrayed as deeply polarized. The two sides, it is said, can't agree on anything. Even worse, if one side supports a position, that's re...
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‘Killers’ and Hollywood’s White Savior SyndromeJan 11, 2024 9:06 am - Martin Scorsese’s critically lauded box office hit “Killers of the Flower Moon” begins streaming globally on Apple TV+ on Friday. This daring, unsparing historical drama ...
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All right, let’s talk about the weather ... and how we cover itJan 11, 2024 9:04 am - “Ah, the weather,” a famous saying begins. “Everyone always talks about it but no one ever does anything about it.” Of course, the humor in that remark lies in the fact t...
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Dead center: On America's right and on its left, a certain madnessJan 10, 2024 5:55 pm - "Things fall apart, the center cannot hold," wrote Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919 as he contemplated the post-war world with dread. For anyone on the lookout for...