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Editorials

Go vote!

Today is Election Day. Hopefully by the time you picked up the morning paper and read this editorial you have either already voted or getting ready to head out the door and drive over to a polling station to cast your vote. If voting wasn’t on your original plans for the day, please ...

End harmful rhetoric making rational political debate nearly impossible

The tirade of intemperate political invective tied to 2022 midterms that’s been hitting our email inboxes, flashing across our TV screens and filling our mailboxes isn’t just negative campaigning gone viral. It’s more dangerous than that — a worrying symptom of a political system ...

Don’t forget the importance of flu prevention

With so much attention over the past two and ahalf years on COVID-19 and the importance of taking steps to minimize its spread and the harm it can do to people who are infected, there’s been less focus on another infectious disease that can cause major problems for communities. Influenza, ...

Help for retirees: Larger than normal COLA increase coming

Senior citizens will see a larger than normal cost-of-living adjustment in their Social Security retirement and disability benefits in 2023. The 8.7 percent increase comes at a critical time with inflation soaring. The cost-of-living adjustment is the largest that Social Security recipients ...

The problem with Biden’s use of Title 42

More than 25% of Venezuela’s population has fled the country since the authoritarian policies of Nicolás Maduro plunged the South American country into economic free fall and social unrest. The humanitarian emergency is believed to be the largest mass displacement of people in recent Latin ...

Biden’s climate policies and energy prices

If Democrats lose next week’s election, one reason will be soaring energy prices. The lesson that an electoral defeat should drive home is that this is the result of their own policies. Consider President Biden’s outrage Friday over last week’s robust earnings reports for oil and gas ...