The imbalance in trade with other countries isn’t a loss for the U.S.; it’s a sign of our economic strength.
How best to provide fire and EMS services to the city requires more study and consideration.
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A new blood screening test can find cancers earlier, improving outcomes. Make it part of Medicare.
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Canned cocktails with similar alcohol volume are levied different taxes, based on how they’re made.
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The longer they are in control, the more their reality-distortion fields affect their judgment.
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Trump’s tariffs will cede clean tech innovation to China and others that will be difficult to rebuild.
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The child of Jamaican immigrants, Powell saw more power to motivate in optimism than in fear.
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Lawyers are critical to the judicial system’s checks. That withers if they bow to Trump to protect their firms.
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If state funding isn’t preserved, recent progress will be lost and costs elsewhere will increase.
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Boys will always be boys, but now they’re dealing with indifference on one side and toxic messages on the other.
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One way of ‘paying’ for the cuts would be ending municipal bonds’ tax-free status, making them less profitable.
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What the highest tariffs in decades could mean for U.S. maufacturing, jobs and the economy.
State lawmakers have proposed new revenues that fund schools and other work and make taxes more fair.
Diseases such as TB are easily treated. Withholding aid unnecessarily threatens lives around the world.
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Legislation in Olympia would add emphasis to federal price transparency laws for hospital services.
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With recent moves, companies are waking up to the fact that things are bad and could get worse.
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Elon Musk’s $20 million to back a candidate failed. Strengthen laws to prevent campaigning by bribery.
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To simplify his map, the cartographer drew Greenland as immense, when it’s smaller than Algeria.
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Trump wants revenue, manufacturing and foreign policy wins; he can’t get all three, if any.
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Even if the GOP keeps two House seats, slim margins could indicate how the midterms might go.
