Opinion

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Opinion: We should pardon Biden for pardon

My brother-in-law recently sent a message to our family text chain, the members of whom rest somewhere on the political spectrum from solidly Democratic to more liberal than Mao Zedong. What do we think of this? He linked to a story about President Joe Biden pardoning his son, Hunter, who ...

Letter to the editor: Trump defense

To the editor: Gary Henry’s letter to the editor states that Trump prolonged the COVID pandemic and kept Americans dying. According to Statista, the 462,193 pandemic deaths in 2021 when Biden was president outnumbered those in 2020 (384,536) when there was no vaccine for most of that year ...

Letter to the editor: Be the light

To the editor: I heard the cries wafting through the Just Food pantry before I saw the child. It was only after the mother and her toddler son finished their shopping and arrived at my volunteer post — the checkout desk — that I noticed his tear-stained cheeks. With one arm the mom ...

Opinion: RFK Jr. is a one-man plague

At a New York rally in October, Donald Trump promised the crowd that if elected, he would let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” on health, food and medicines. It delighted the crowd, who imagined they were cheering for better health and better medicine. They’re in for a bitter ...

Letter to the editor: A democracy?

To the editor: Now that Donald Trump has been reelected over the protests of many Americans who say no former president with pending or unresolved felony charges against him should be allowed to serve a second term, all Americans should reflect on the history of our nation and ask whether the ...

Letter to the editor: Property tax frustration

To the editor: Despite the lower “mill levy” our property taxes have increased. We are fixed-income seniors, and despite my attempts to correct our characteristics, it’s not been done. Our home is 1,900 square feet, and yet the county states we have almost 2,200 square feet and more ...