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Skelton: Trump maligns real ‘darkest days’

June 10, 2024, 6:01am Columns

It’s sad and scary that so many people can believe anything from Donald Trump’s mouth when he contends his felony conviction marked the “darkest day in American history.” Read story

Estrich: RFK Jr. should not be on debate stage

June 10, 2024, 6:01am Columns

With the deadline quickly approaching for him to qualify for the June CNN presidential debate, RFK Jr. has yet to meet the sensible qualifications that CNN has set for participants. Which is as it should be. He doesn’t belong on the stage. His candidacy is at best a distraction and… Read story

Other Papers Say: NCAA deal has risks, rewards

June 10, 2024, 6:01am Columns

Just three short years after the dawn of an era in which college athletes can profit off their name, image and likeness, a newer era is about to dawn courtesy of a legal settlement. Some 14,000 student-athletes who played and learned from 2016 to now will divvy up $2.8 billion… Read story

O’Connor: How to optimize opioid money

June 10, 2024, 6:01am Columns

Kudos to John Oliver and HBO’s”Last Week Tonight” for their coverage of the opioid crisis and the resultant settlement. Many states are struggling to use the settlement funds effectively, and some are already repeating the waste, fraud and abuse involving Big Tobacco settlement funds ($206 billion) in the 1990s. But… Read story

Calmes: GOP won’t do Biden justice

June 10, 2024, 6:01am Columns

News flash: Republicans haven’t said it in so many words, but they seem to have a new line of attack against President Joe Biden: He suffers from dissociative identity disorder. Biden has multiple personalities. Read story

Flam: Due to political posturing, COVID questions linger

June 8, 2024, 6:01am Columns

Congress blew its chance Monday to give Americans some insight into the COVID pandemic that dominated our lives for years. Following a 15-month inquiry, Republicans on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic called Anthony Fauci to testify in public at a special hearing, but committee members spent most… Read story

Other Papers Say: It’s still the economy, stupid

June 8, 2024, 6:01am Columns

‘It’s the economy, stupid.” So declared Bill Clinton’s insurgent 1992 campaign, summing up the issue that would, more than any other, fuel his victory over President George H.W. Bush. Read story

Westneat: GOP vowing fealty to a crook

June 8, 2024, 6:01am Columns

If Washington Republicans knew what was good for them, they would now move to drop Donald Trump from the state’s fall ballot. Read story

Corbin: Project 2025 is a threat to democracy

June 8, 2024, 6:01am Columns

There are a multitude of issues that voters must assess when deciding between President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and the independent presidential candidates before casting their ballots in the fall. Logically, the importance of each issue differs between and among America’s 161.4 million registered voters. Read story

Schmidt: Jury in Trump’s hush-money trial did its job

June 7, 2024, 6:01am Columns

To borrow from the song written by Sonny Curtis of The Crickets, “I Fought the Law,” former President Donald Trump fought the law and the law won. Read story