November 6, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Russia has many reasons to regret its savage war on Ukraine, but a very lasting one will be how it supercharged Europe’s plans to end its dependence on that country’s oil and gas. Europe was already well into a campaign to replace fossil fuels with clean renewable energy, mainly to… Read story
November 6, 2022, 6:01am Columns
About six weeks ago, which may have already been too late, Democrats in Congress pushed through four outstanding anti-crime bills. Read story
November 6, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Grim as they were, the recent release of student assessments known as “the nation’s report card” should have surprised no one. Education researchers say the effects of learning disruption during the pandemic are worse than what kids in New Orleans faced after Hurricane Katrina. Read story
November 4, 2022, 6:01am Columns
An 82-year-old man sustains a skull fracture from a predawn home invasion, and you think it’s funny? Read story
November 2, 2022, 6:01am Columns
The other day, in one of his many appearances on right-wing and MAGA-oriented podcasts, Republican congressional candidate Joe Kent brought up an unexpected subject: light rail. Read story
November 1, 2022, 6:01am Columns
For some time I’ve believed that the presidential election of 2024 will be a defining crisis that pits the most likely Republican candidate, Donald Trump, against whomever the Democrats choose, whether President Joe Biden or someone else. The outcome of that contest will tell us a lot about what kind… Read story
October 31, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Tourism in Salem is wild with 100,000 visitors descending on this historic Massachusetts town on any given day. Traffic is gridlocked, and there are virtually no parking spaces left. The mayor told visitors to go to satellite parking lots and take shuttle buses downtown. Then the satellite lots got maxed… Read story
October 31, 2022, 6:01am Columns
At worst, U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal deeply misunderstands the political and diplomatic realities of the war in Ukraine. At best, she is throwing a staff member under the bus for releasing an explosive letter that was ham-handed in the first place. Read story
October 31, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Last December, Richard Molina was ousted as mayor of Edinburg, Texas. Read story
October 30, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Kanye West is wrong for so many reasons, but none more basic than this: If Jews really had half as much power over the media and everything else, as he says we do, we wouldn’t be worried about a loathsome loudmouth like him. Read story
