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To the editor: Regarding the prospect of allowing data centers to be built in Douglas County: I can’t believe the County Commission is wasting public resources on this. Twenty months working on codes? Really? Commissioners, please remember who you work for – the current taxpayers of ...
To the editor: So the war is terminated and the administration does not need to go to Congress to get further authorization. And we have won, or so the administration tells us, and decisively at that. Why aren't our troops and sailors headed back home? If they are defeated, have no recourse ...
To the editor: The president’s plan to withdraw 5,000 (or possibly more) U.S. troops from Germany over a spat with its chancellor shows shows the administration’s short sightedness and lack of an understanding of history and the country’s role in the world (whether it wants that role or ...
It’s not 1973 anymore, and that’s a very good thing for the United States. Back then, the U.S. imported more than a third of its oil, much of it from the Middle East, and it paid the price. Now, it’s in a transformed position. “Drill, baby, drill” is arguably the most successful ...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. cautiously praised the hard-won Voting Rights Act of 1965 as a “great step forward” toward removing obstacles that kept Black Americans from voting. It was. But now, in striking down a voter redistricting map in Louisiana, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken ...
A heavily armed California man was caught trying to storm the White House correspondents’ dinner Saturday with the apparent intent to kill the president. It didn’t take long for Washington to start arguing. Democrats denounce violent rhetoric from the right, but the alleged assailant ...