Articles filed under Opinion
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The good, bad and ugly in Trump's new budgetMay 09, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: Trump's 2026 budget proposes deep domestic cuts but sustains bloated spending on defense and security. Despite small-government rhetoric, it fails to curb debt drivers like entitlements.
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Cheers for Sen. Thom TillisMay 09, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich:
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Daily Herald opinion: Swing, spin, slide: Today’s suburban playgrounds offer safer, more inclusive places to playMay 09, 2025 4:00 am - Daily Herald opinion: Modern playgrounds focus on safety and accessibility, with softer surfaces to prevent injuries. They also offer more inclusive and creative equipment to accommodate children with disabilities.
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Today’s editorial cartoonMay 09, 2025 4:00 am -
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Biden's decline: The inside story and the outside storyMay 08, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Byron York: The White House tried hiding Biden's senility through denials and attacking critics, but the public could see his confusion and freezing at events. Now, more details emerging on lengths taken to conceal the situation.
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The complicated, unproductive search for ‘the narrative’May 08, 2025 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: When I taught high school journalism back in the 1970s, it wasn’t hard to lean on famous quotes that attempt to summarize some formula for deciding what deserves to be reported and how. But the truth today - as in the past really - is that news judgment cannot be compacted into a single clever phrase.
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Guys and dolls: A cringeworthy president tells the kids to suck it upMay 07, 2025 10:46 am - Syndicated columnist Jeff Robbins: President Trump claims economic disaster is "golden age" - how long can his supporters deny reality?
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Daily Herald opinion: Meeting a local jobs need: Select four-year degrees could be win-win for employers, studentsMay 07, 2025 6:41 am - Daily Herald opinion: Giving community colleges the ability to offer four-year baccalaureate degrees in limited, rigidly defined subject areas could provide the opportunity for more students to get them — and thereby help to fill needed labor roles in their communities.
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A worthwhile tariffMay 07, 2025 4:00 am - After an extremely frustrating time on the phone yesterday, it struck me that President Trump missed out on a tariff that I think American citizens would really get behin...