Opinion Columns
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The importance of global collaboration to combat COVID-19 pandemicMar 24, 2020 1:00 am - The pandemic of COVID-19 has put the need for global collaboration on the forefront. We are living in the age of increased focus on nationalism, while global collaborati...
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Provide stimulus for small businesses, not $50 billion bailout for airlinesMar 23, 2020 1:00 am - U.S. airlines are requesting $50 billion of taxpayer money for another bailout. We should not make the same mistake twice. When Congress bailed out the airlines after th...
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In midst of health crisis, need for nuclear power ever more clearMar 22, 2020 1:00 am - We are in the midst of a pandemic, the likes of which has not been seen in our lifetimes. Pandemics have happened in the past. But this time is different from any other ...
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Let's use this crisis to get teachers the pay they deserveMar 22, 2020 1:00 am - By Mark Shields My sainted mother was a public school teacher until she married my father and immediately, as a married woman, was forced by local Massachusetts rules th...
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COVID-19 could be deadly for American small businessMar 20, 2020 1:00 am - Over the last few weeks, the United States has been grappling with the challenges of the global coronavirus pandemic. But the devastating effects have only just begun to...
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Doom, gloom and the drive that strives to overcome it allMar 19, 2020 1:00 am - When I first started thinking about the theme for this column early last week, it was with the idea of sharing with you the impact on a newsroom of covering a sustained ...
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When this pandemic ends, we'll have decisions to makeMar 19, 2020 1:00 am - By Connie Schultz A favorite book I try never to be without is by the late Irish poet and priest John O'Donohue. It's on my bedside table, on my Kindle and on the Kindle...
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Scouting's disappointing slide belies youthful memoriesMar 19, 2020 1:00 am - Fifty-three years ago, I attended my final Boy Scout meeting. My life had moved in a different direction and though I had not attained the rank of Eagle, my scouting exp...
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Finally, president and public coming to see gravity of COVID-19Mar 18, 2020 1:00 am - President Donald Trump's Monday press conference showed for the first time that he is finally understanding the gravity of the COVID-19 pandemic. On multiple occasions h...
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Joe Biden: A 'centrist' moves further leftMar 18, 2020 1:00 am - It's an indisputable fact that the Democratic Party has moved left in recent years. Now, the party is about to choose a standard-bearer in the person of former Vice Pres...