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Saunders: Trump can’t have it both ways on states’ rights
He can’t tell states to lead on the coronavirus response, then tell them how to run their elections.
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Comment: Trump has name for those who tell truth: squealers
And their fate, as the White House Don has done frequently, is demotion or firing.
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Burke: WWII general knew how to prove regard for his dead
Would that Gen. Lucian Truscott Jr. could show Trump how to speak of those who have died in…
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Harrop: Biden’s best option for VP? Gov. Andrew Cuomo
Picking Cuomo would go against his pledge to pick a woman, but Cuomo has too many upsides to…
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Saunders: Barr’s actions on Flynn case sought to curb abuse
The former prosecutors criticizing the AG are guilty of the overreach they assign to him.
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Harrop: Pandemic has complicated end-of-life care
Even for a non-Covid patient, the precautions have added a level of difficulty to providing comfort.
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Schwab: Trump had 2 choices: Fix it or lie about fixing it
The president went with the latter, hoping enough will blindly help him to reelection. Is he right?
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Saunders: Closing schools will come at great cost to students
Governors acted to protect kids’ health, but those precautions may be sacrificing their futures.
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Harrop: Believing all women has led to evil before
Countless lynchings of black men occurred based on the uninvestigated claims of white women.
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Burke: Reopening too quickly would be playing with lives
Yes, we need to revive the economy and resume our lives, but should it cost the lives of…
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Schwab: Some thoughts on fact vs. opinion, reporting vs. columns
It’s our columnist’s opinion that some are unclear on the differences regarding those terms.
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Harrop: Has social distancing rewired our consumer brain?
Just because businesses reopen doesn’t mean shoppers will resume their former spending habits.
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Saunders: Las Vegas mayor was wrong, but so was CNN
Her hope to reopen the city’s casinos was used by Anderson Cooper to mock her and others who…
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Burke: Monroe COVID crisis raises questions about prisons
The crisis should have us asking about the purpose of prison and its effectiveness in rehabilitation.
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Schwab: White House occupant can’t be called president
Not when he foments armed rebellion against governors he had ceded authority on pandemic response.
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Saunders: Gov. Whitmer’s orders do more harm than good
The Michigan governor’s unreasonable stay-home orders have alienated many in her state.
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Harrop: States in best position to make call on opening up
Trump doesn’t need to ‘authorize’ governors to do their job; he just needs to get out of the…
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Schwab: On the plus side, coronavirus has taken us to school
We’re replete with lessons learned regarding the motivations and intentions of Trump and the GOP.
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Outbreak has made a difficult time harder for nursing homes
I am a retired family physician who followed many patients in nursing homes. I saw firsthand how most…
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Harrop: ‘War of the Worlds’ a better metaphor for Covid fight
The H.G. Wells novel describes a powerful enemy, but one defeated on a microscopic battlefield.