Opinion Columns
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An opportunity for you to help strengthen protections a newspaper providesJan 30, 2020 12:00 am - We're just getting started on a collaborative project we intend to boost the Daily Herald's coverage of local and state news, and we're already seeing encouraging signs ...
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Iowa could make Democrats' Bernie problem much, much worseJan 30, 2020 12:00 am - Just days before the 2008 Democratic presidential caucuses in Iowa, Hillary Clinton led Barack Obama by four points in the RealClearPolitics average of polls. Obama took...
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Trump's Labor Department provides clarity on joint employmentJan 29, 2020 12:00 am - Three years into the Trump administration, we see a clear pattern forming. The Obama administration implemented labor rules that make the labor market less flexible, oft...
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Automatic voter registration glitch needs attentionJan 29, 2020 12:00 am - A glitch in the state's automatic voter registration program that resulted in more than 500 people who said they weren't U.S. citizens being added to the voter rolls sho...
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Maybe, eventually, history will get someone's attentionJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - There were two TVs on in the gym. The one in the front - where all the training goes on - showed two teams from somewhere else battling for a ball. The one in the back,...
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Fact checkers looking at only one sideJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - Google "fact-check Senate impeachment," and you can read about all the factual errors made by President Donald Trump's team of lawyers. What about those of the House imp...
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On 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation, a solemn reminderJan 27, 2020 12:00 am - Monday, Jan. 27, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, memorializing the genocide of more than 6 million Jews, including 1.5 million children. This year's observan...
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Megxit, Trump and the generational divideJan 26, 2020 12:00 am - By Armstrong Williams Far too much ink has been spilled in describing the parallels between a resurgent British nationalism - a la Brexit - and the social currents under...
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Partisan purity is derailing our countryJan 26, 2020 12:00 am - We all have moments that stick with us forever, crystallizing our view of something we've long cared about. Here's one of mine, from several years ago: then Sen. Jim DeM...
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Republicans may not want it, but Americans are watchingJan 24, 2020 12:00 am - It is my habit, and my ethical obligation, to disclose a fact of my marriage when failing to do so could mislead you or diminish your trust in me. Circumstances and sub...