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Comment: Voters trumped cash in Wisconsin; keep it that way
Elon Musk’s $20 million to back a candidate failed. Strengthen laws to prevent campaigning by bribery.
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Comment: Drug companies need to speak up about RFK Jr.’s FDA
With recent moves, companies are waking up to the fact that things are bad and could get worse.
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Journalism support bill: Make tech companies pay share
My wife worked for The Herald for over 20 years. At that time, I was a struggling small…
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Donate to food banks and lobby Congress to protect SNAP
With increasing numbers of hungry people, food banks are struggling to meet the needs with new federal and…
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Elon Musk’s DOGE work, contracts in conflict
In February Elon Musk’s company, Space-X, was awarded a contract with a potntial value of about $500 billion;…
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Welch: Latest state tax proposals threaten jobs and economy
Using fear of budget cuts, state lawmakers are taking the easy route with damaging tax increases.
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Protect funding for vital service of public libraries
I am a patron of the Sno-Isle Library system.
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SAVE Act would hamper voting for many Americans
Our democracy works best when every eligible voter, regardless of background, can make their voice heard. But the…
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Hegseth, Waltz should resign posts over Signalgate
I agree with New York Times columnist David French, military veteran Congress members Sen. Tammy Duckworth and Rep.…
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Comment: Can we blame Mercator for Trump’s Greenland obsession?
To simplify his map, the cartographer drew Greenland as immense, when it’s smaller than Algeria.
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Editorial cartoons for Tuesday, April 1, April Fools’ Day
A sketchy look at the news of the day.
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Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil: Protect freedom of speech for all
It’s been weeks since Mahmoud Khalil was abducted from his home in New York and taken to an…
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Trump’s, Musk’s cuts to education are most damaging
In my long life of service to my community, I have never seen the outrageous, lawless, and anti-constitutional…
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Property owners abuse Perrinville Creek watershed
This case history of property owners ignoring the law for instant self-gratification is but another symptom of having…
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Comment: An ‘impossible trinity’ of goals for Trump’s tariffs
Trump wants revenue, manufacturing and foreign policy wins; he can’t get all three, if any.
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Douthat: Trump’s Signalgate denials not impressing non-MAGA
Even 60 percent of Republicans polled said the scandal was a serious one.
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Kristof: Violence surrounds detention of Oscar-winning filmmaker
The Palestinian’s ‘No Other Land’ won accolades. In his West Bank home, he was attacked.