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The News-Gazette. January 24, 2021.
Editorial: Are stricter graduation standards better?
The aftershocks of the Legislature's recent lame-duck session continue to reverberate.
The blitzkrieg of complicated pieces of legislation recently passed by t...
Updated: Jan 26, 2021 at 09:40 AM
For the first time in more than a decade, Republicans are waking up to a Washington where Democrats control the White House and Congress, adjusting to an era of diminished power, deep uncertainty and internal feuding.
The shift to minority status is...
Updated: Jan 22, 2021 at 06:50 AM
WASHINGTON - Just before a mob unleashed a deadly rampage on the U.S. Capitol last week, President Donald Trump told tens of thousands of supporters that "we got to get rid" of Rep. Liz Cheney.
The Wyoming congresswoman and No. 3 House Republican ha...
Updated: Jan 14, 2021 at 07:14 AM
"Electoral College worked then, but not now" misses the point. The Electoral College prevents tyranny of the majority. The Founding Fathers of the U.S. were more concerned about the nation being controlled by "factions," than the fear of an individu...
Updated: Dec 29, 2020 at 03:09 PM
During last week's "virtual" winter meetings, major league baseball made 29 of its 30 managers available to the media on Zoom calls.
Tony La Russa was the only one missing.
The White Sox's new manager had legal issues to tend to, and he did conduct ...
Updated: Dec 22, 2020 at 07:02 PM
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
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Dec. 16
The Philadelphia Inquirer on evictions once the Centers for Disease Control's nationwide moratorium ends:
Millions of households nationwide could find themselves evicted fr...
Updated: Dec 16, 2020 at 05:31 PM
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden is expected to pick former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg to head the Transportation Department, according to three people familiar with the plans.
Buttigieg, one of Biden's rivals for the Democratic...
Updated: Dec 16, 2020 at 02:46 PM
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday refused to hear President Donald Trump's lawsuit attempting to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the battleground state, sidestepping a decision on the merits of the claims ...
Updated: Dec 03, 2020 at 08:05 PM
WASHINGTON - Ron Klain has checked all the boxes of a classic Washington striver: Georgetown, Harvard Law, Supreme Court clerk and Capitol Hill staffer, White House adviser and, along the way, of course, lobbyist and lawyer.
Now Klain is preparing t...
Updated: Dec 03, 2020 at 07:30 AM
CHICAGO (AP) - President-elect Joe Biden is considering former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a substantial and somewhat divisive figure in Democratic Party politics, to serve as his transportation secretary.
Biden's selection of his nominee to lead t...
Updated: Dec 01, 2020 at 06:05 PM