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This week, we honored the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. Trump has removed MLK Jr.’s birthday from the National Park Service’s fee-free days and substituted his own birthday of June 14 as a fee-free day. I write this more in sorrow than in anger. All told, I feel profound sorrow ...
President Donald Trump’s approval ratings are down the drain. The midterms are coming, and if Democrats prevail, his agenda gets boxed in fast. What can he do to avoid that outcome? Well, what’s worked in the past? Immigration! Former President Joe Biden had irresponsibly left borders ...
To the editor: My father served in the Army Air Force during World War II. He was a gunnery instructor who taught airmen how to fire the fifty caliber machine guns in the ball turrets of B-17 bombers. I have always been proud of his service. Were he alive today, dad would be appalled to ...
My son performs magic now. He picked it up at a friend’s birthday party — a sweet, old-fashioned affair with a magician and a goodie bag that instead of cheap plastic trinkets had the materials for three tricks basic enough that even a second grader could master them. After the pizza, ...
To the editor: The majority of GOP officials seem to be just fine with this administration's America First isolationist stances, but they also seem to be missing a huge change in international affairs. Countries that were our allies and friends now view the U.S. as unstable and unpredictable. ...
In a nation as diverse as ours, immigration enforcement inevitably tests whether equal protection means what it says. Some tribal leaders in the Upper Midwest say that test is being failed in the wake of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7. By the end of the week, claims of ...