Opinion

Comment: Company’s housing assistance can come with handcuffs

The recreation of ‘company towns’ could lock employees into a job and limit their compensation.

Opinion

Comment: If Joe Rogan asks you to debate, be suspicious

The purpose in some ‘debates’ isn’t discerning truth but a ploy to further muddy the waters.

Opinion

Comment: Few orders at Paris Air Show not sign of falling demand

Boeing believes the world will need 42,595 airplane deliveries between now and 2042.

FILE - Abortion-rights activists protest outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Saturday, June 25, 2022. The Supreme Court's ruling allowing states to regulate abortion has set off a mad travel scramble across the country to direct patients to states that still allow the procedure. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Opinion

Comment: A year after Dobbs, health care disparities emerge

States that have banned abortions are subjecting women to poorer health outcomes and inequalities.

Opinion

Comment: Who’s blocking the path to highway, bridge work?

Transportation projects get bogged down with studies and add-ons. Often, it’s us who are to blame.

Clyde Carter III presides over the Youth and Government Senate as 76th Youth Lieutenant Governor this May. (Ann Duan)

Opinion

Comment: YMCA’s mock legislature teaches real civics lessons

Youth and Government Club members took over the state Capitol to learn the ropes of collaboration.

Opinion

Comment: Year after Dobbs, women’s health care and women suffering

States’ bans on abortion are forcing OB-GYNs to leave those states, limiting health care for all women.

Opinion

Comment: After 50 days, Biden ‘bribe’ allegations fail to convince

Republicans in Congress, working from a tip from Rudy Guiliani, at a lost to point to incriminating evidence.

Opinion

Comment: Leaving abortion to states ignoring will of voters

The Dobbs ruling returned the issue to ‘elected representatives,’ but gerrymandered districts are interfering.

Opinion

Comment: Putin’s good cop/bad cop nuke bluff fails to impress

Putin, by allowing others to bluster for him about Russia’s nuclear threat, is showing a weak hand.

Opinion

Comment: Senators’ ‘holds’ are undermining their own power

The Senate’s ‘hold’ policy has its place but it’s being misused as a one-person filibuster on national issues.

Opinion

Comment: Focused on abortion, U.S. deadly place to give birth

The medical profession too often dismisses the pain of Black women, regardless of wealth or status.

Opinion

Comment: Some panic over climate disasters preferable to apathy

A summer of expected record heat should shake the complacency of world leaders who are slow-walking action.

Opinion

Comment: Tucker’s contract with Fox may silence him until its op

He can claim it’s a violation of his First Amendment rights, but contract law isn’t on his side.

Opinion

Comment: Asking who’s worthy of public aid wrong question

We waste too much time and money on judging who’s deserving and ignoring those who are in need.

Opinion

Comment: Rather than victim, Africa could be climate change hero

It has the workforce and resources to be a significant player in the transition to renewable energy.

Opinion

Comment: Our real inflation problem is expansion of wealth gap

By 2048, the top 1 percent of Americans will hold 22.5 percent of the nation’s total wealth.

Opinion

Comment: Consumers are fed up with grocery ‘greedflation’

With consumers switching to value brands, companies must offer better goods at lower prices.

Opinion

Comment: Supreme Court was sensibly conservative on tribal rights

Justice Barrett’s majority opinion on the Indian Child Welfare Act upholds conservative legal values.

People rally outside the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Courthouse, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, in Miami. Former President Donald Trump appeared in federal court Tuesday on dozens of felony charges accusing him of illegally hoarding classified documents and thwarting the Justice Department's efforts to get the records back. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Opinion

Comment: For Trump before trial, the less said the better

Two national security law experts offer how they would advise Trump regarding the documents case.