Opinion Columns
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Crime reform is here. Do you feel safer?Dec 03, 2021 12:00 am - If a conservative is a liberal who got mugged, California is about to have a bumper crop of right-wingers as the social compact is crumbling in the Golden State and beyo...
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The Biden-Buttigieg pitch: It's all free!Dec 03, 2021 12:00 am - The 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign was essentially a bidding war in which each candidate pledged to spend trillions of dollars beyond what is needed to ru...
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Fund local journalism to help communitiesDec 02, 2021 12:00 am - A portion of the Local Journalism Sustainability Act (LJSA) was included in the recent Build Back Better bill that was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives. The L...
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Transition: From just me to #MeToo to not you - Part IIDec 02, 2021 12:00 am - In the last 40 years, I have counseled, represented, supported and cried with thousands of women, many of them students in those criminal law classes, many of them telli...
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Leaving politics behind for a life of pieDec 01, 2021 12:00 am - Donald Trump has not been reinstated as president; dark forces continue to conceal Hillary's emails; it seems all those school shootings really happened; and no dead mem...
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From just me to #MeToo to not you - Part IDec 01, 2021 12:00 am - In 1974, when I walked out of an alley in Boston's Back Bay, it was pretty much "just me." Of course, millions of women were raped (we didn't have a word for sexual hara...
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Kyle Rittenhouse's offense: insufficiently respecting riotersNov 30, 2021 12:00 am - Why the hatred of Kyle Rittenhouse? Why was there such widespread dishonest news coverage of the case against him that his acquittal by the Kenosha, Wisconsin, jury came...
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Some things to remember about blame, credit for gasoline pricesNov 30, 2021 12:00 am - I'm the first to admit that I should have paid closer attention to Samuelson when I took Econ260, but one thing that I do remember is that high prices are an antidote fo...
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For Democrats, the word is 'transform'Nov 26, 2021 12:00 am - Remember when Joe Biden ran for president in what commentators called the "centrist" lane of the Democratic primaries? The idea was that a "moderate" like Biden, unlike ...
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Democracy's fate in the chill winds of NovemberNov 26, 2021 12:00 am - Thanksgiving is all about saving the Union from forces that almost destroyed it. President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed it a national holiday in 1863, midway through the b...