Opinion

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Opinion: A convoluted scheme to pay parents to stay home

Vice President JD Vance wants to pay married parents to stay home with their children, and he wants to do it with money Congress appropriated to help low-income families afford daycare. Whatever one thinks of the goal, which may prove popular, the proposal fails every test we should apply to ...

Opinion: Data center debate — LULUs and leverage

I remember the call. The city manager told me to buckle up. A rezoning for a smelly new potato-salad factory was coming my way. On a street with nothing but houses. My life as a planner flashed before me like the grainy black and white final scene of “Frankenstein” — angry village mobs ...

Opinion: Trump robs us of our places and our past

It’s one thing for Trump to usurp powers that belong to Congress — quite another for him to usurp places that belong to all of us. I’m talking about his renaming and demolishing what we share in common. Trump said he “decided” to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America ...

Opinion: 9/11 set the scene for a dark century

“True is it that we have seen better days.” — William Shakespeare Pearl Harbor brought out the best in the American people. We responded by pulling together for a major mobilization when an act of war landed on our soil in 1941. That December day, which Franklin Roosevelt eloquently ...

Opinion: A small but welcome justice at Gitmo

The recent suppression of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s torture-tainted confessions at Guantanamo Bay is far more than a victory for a defendant. It is a victory for the Constitution. The United States government alleges that Mohammed was the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, a crime of ...