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Editorials

Booster question doesn’t change benefits of vaccine

To boost, or not to boost, that is the question being weighed by health experts and advisors in the FDA. There are differences of opinion in the federal government regarding giving booster shots of of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. President Joe Biden and his top health advisors are pushing ...

Reason for Capitol Police to be concerned

The U.S. Capitol Police, who were overwhelmed Jan. 6 when a mob of Donald Trump supporters smashed their way into the Capitol in an attempt to stop Congress from verifying the election of President Joe Biden, are bracing again for possible violence this Saturday. More right-wing groups are ...

Manchin’s ‘modest’ spending limit

Sen. Joe Manchin, the moderate Democrat from West Virginia, stands like a lone bulwark of sanity amidst a sea of Democratic spending excess in Washington, D.C. As President Joe Biden stumps in the western states to push his $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better” spending package, Manchin is ...

Polio battle has lesson for current vaccination controversy

You will have to turn to the Baby Boomers to find people who remember what it was like when polio was the disease that scared people as much as COVID-19 does today. A contagious viral disease, polio carries dire symptoms. It starts with flu-like symptoms fever, sore throat, headache, vomiting, ...

9-11, 20 years later

It has been 20 years since a double handful of terrorists, 19 in all, carried out the most vicious and cruel attack on America that we have ever seen. They hijacked four jetliners and turned them into weapons, caring nothing for the lives of those on board. Two planes crashed into the twin ...

Work is out there, if people want it

The U.S. Labor Department reported on Wednesday the puzzling news that while employers are posting a record number of job openings, millions of unemployed Americans are reluctant to take the jobs they are offering. Employers are boosting pay levels and offering signing bonuses to get more ...