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Health care doesn’t work like capitalism

In the article on price gouging of prescription drugs at Mercy Hospital (“ I disagree. We don’t have capitalism in the health care industry. Name any other industry or consumer service wher...

DATE: May 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: How they voted

On abortion, we seem to have bats in every belfry

WASHINGTON – When author Mark Childress penned “Crazy in Alabama,” he wasn’t just whistling Dixie. “I haven’t been quoted this much since Roy Moore,” Childress recently told me, r...

DATE: May 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

Who needs China? Trade wars are wrong.

The Trump administration is focused on appropriation of intellectual property if a product is manufactured in China and on the huge trade deficit with China. If U.S. companies tha...

DATE: May 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Stop supporting panhandlers, disrespect

The definition of a job is “a task or piece of work, especially one that is paid.” Thus, panhandling is a job. Homeless people accomplish the task of panhandling and are paid. So, why can pa...

DATE: May 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Huge green deal: Sen. Bennet’s plan

Sen. Michael Bennet reveals a climate change plan with nine zeros

DATE: May 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Story on caring for mentally ill resonates

Thank you for bringing awareness to a subject that has very little fanfare (“ The most recent article about the frustrations the Middleton family experiences is one of hundreds in this nati...

DATE: May 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Blaming foreign pilots won’t spare Boeing

WASHINGTON – The U.S. aviation system needs urgently to restore the world’s confidence after two crashes of Boeing 737 Max jets. Instead, the Trump administration’s top aviation o...

DATE: May 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dana Milbank

Biologist goes bad

U.S. Fish and Wildlife worker pleads guilty to a skin trade conspiracy

DATE: May 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

We get why, Alabama – but should the messenger be our secretary of state?

DATE: May 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Ballot wrong place for Electoral College

The petition currently in circulation to force a statewide vote on the National Popular Vote bill would almost certainly be ruled to be unconstitutional by the current Supreme Court. ...

DATE: May 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

No endgame for rivalry with nefarious China

“My idea of American policy toward the Soviet Union is simple, and some would say simplistic,” Ronald Reagan told his adviser Richard Allen in January 1977, four years before he became presi...

DATE: May 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Carbon dividend bill is what’s needed

Appreciation to all who have made changes to reduce their carbon footprint, addressing climate change. Problem is, individual actions are not enough. We need industry a...

DATE: May 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor