February 24, 2024, 6:01am Columns
In a stunningly bad decision, the Alabama Supreme Court has held that frozen embryos in a lab count as children for the purposes of the state’s wrongful death law. Read story
February 24, 2024, 6:01am Columns
State lawmakers who support moving the elections of mayors, city council members and other local leaders to even-numbered years say the goal is to increase voter turnout in those races. But the move is an administrative nightmare for election offices and actually a disservice to voters. Read story
February 24, 2024, 6:01am Columns
The people have a right to know. Read story
February 23, 2024, 6:01am Columns
For Presidents Day, the U.S. House is taking two weeks off. But first the Republicans who misrule the place honored their favorite president by blocking desperately needed aid for Ukraine — just as Donald Trump demanded. Read story
February 22, 2024, 6:01am Columns
The special counsel report claiming that Joe Biden’s memory had seriously declined stinks to high political heaven. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe saw “nauseating similarities” to the agency’s investigation of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Read story
February 21, 2024, 6:01am Columns
The clearest sign that a person is a baby boomer may be the tendency to shake one’s head when hearing of ideas being considered by the Legislature about marijuana. Read story
February 20, 2024, 6:01am Columns
One of the few things Democrats and Republicans appear to agree on is that fiscal responsibility is for losers. As a result, the country’s looming financial breakdown gets barely a mention as this year’s elections approach. Read story
February 19, 2024, 6:03am Columns
Even if you did not watch the Super Bowl, you have probably seen or at least heard about one of the evening’s more controversial ads. Read story
February 19, 2024, 6:01am Columns
If there was one lesson to be learned from Bush v. Gore and its impact on the Supreme Court’s credibility, it is that the court should not decide presidential elections. That job belongs to the people: in the case of Donald Trump, to voters and juries. What that means in… Read story
February 19, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Tonight, like every other night, too many of our neighbors will sleep in a tent, a car, a shelter, or on a sidewalk. Read story
