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Comment: Expect Trump, Musk to scale back consumer protections
A consumer protection agency could be scuttled, but a retirement accounts plan may get a refresh.
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Comment: Regardless of faith, celebrate a season of lights
As Christmas and Hanukkah coincide, it seems time for everyone to let there be holiday lights.
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Comment: Are 2 reindeers’ names a clue as to who wrote classic?
Donner and Blitzen – or Dunder and Blixem – might know who wrote ‘The Night Before Christmas”.
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Brooks: Faith is nothing like I thought it would be
I’ve learned and relearned a startling truth; faith is about yearning but it’s not about striving.
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Comment: Why ‘A Charlie Brown Cristmas’ almost didn’t air
Just like Charlie Brown’s spindly tree, the animated special was almost rejected by TV executives.
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Comment: There isn’t a war on Christmas; there are several
A look at the continual posturing and lawsuits over how we spread cheer and jeers over the same…
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Comment: Lab breakthrough could make IVF less of an ordeal
The new egg maturation method could cut the length of hormone shots and lessen their side effects.
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Comment: Why patients are losing patience
Here are five of the most frustrating health insurer tactics and what’s keeping them in place.
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Comment: Sale of your doctor’s practice could cost you more
Hospitals are using a loophole to buy up practices, allowing them to charge more for the same service.
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Comment: App store accountability would aid parent’s oversight
The proposed law would require age verification before apps could be downloaded onto youths’ phones.
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Comment: Red ribbons for Christmas, yes; red tape, no
Federal and state lawmakers need to rein in the plethora of regulations strangling the economy.
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Comment: Monday just a normal school day; that’s the problem
School shootings have become so frequent, so wide-spread, that the 323 of them this year are a dead…
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Comment: Carbon capture’s problem is it takes too many trees
To meet all nations’ carbon-capture pledges you’d have to convert the entire U.S. into a giant forest.
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Comment: FAA needs leader much like one it’s losing prematurely
Under criticism from Elon Musk, FAA’s leader is stepping down. The post is crucial to Boeing’s future.
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Comment: Vigilantes can’t fix health care; this reform would
If patients could sue over denial or delay of care that could pressure companies to make better decisions.
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Comment: Trump would twist unjust law; Congress should repeal it
The Alien Enemies Act, used against Japanese and others in WWII, doesn’t apply now and should be ended.
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Comment: Growing Alaska Air could take JetBlue under its wing
The company, which recently acquired Hawaiian, is well run and in position to become a national competitor.
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Comment: Trump can’t end birthright citizenship; he shouldn’t try
It would be virtually impossible, would solve nothing and would only add to chaos and uncertainty.
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Comment: To serve power-thirsty AI, Exxon looks at electricity
Gas-fired power plants — with emission-capture tech — could get a jump on data centers’ nuclear plans.
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Comment: Anger, discord over health care a chronic condition
Most Americans see the health insurance system as concerned more with profits than with health.