Opinion / Editorial

March 7, 2025 7 a.m.

Bits n’ pieces from east, west and beyond

Private industries are cutting back due to DOGE budget slashing and tariffs are a “paralyzing” influence.

March 18, 2025 7 a.m.

Bits n’ pieces from east, west and beyond

“Think about it—we’re talking about people who own their own spaceships who are trying to take away healthcare for millions of kids.”

March 21, 2025 7 a.m.

Trump's call for terminating Constitution is deranged

George Washington, in his farewell address, warned that political parties would, over time, become “potent engines by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men would subvert the power of the people and usurp for themselves the reins of government.”

April 8, 2025 7 a.m.

It’s time to balance access with conservation on public lands and waters

The joke was on the public since many of those deeded lands never saw permanent rail lines built.

March 28, 2025 7 a.m.

Republicans have shown their stripes

This devolution means people give up their rights, bit by bit, to a cultist leader who demands obedience and loyalty.

April 11, 2025 7 a.m.

Bits n’ pieces from east, west and beyond

In a nutshell: destroying SS would allow the wealthy to dodge proposals to shore up SS by increasing or eliminating SS’s cap on taxable wages.

March 28, 2025 7 a.m.

Partisan judges

Our State’s Constitution has too many subjective terms like "privacy" in it which allows judges...

April 11, 2025 7 a.m.

Keeping the Republic

Our democratic republic, though we’ve been blessed with it and devoted to it for 237 years, is nonetheless fragile. It is, after all, based upon the consent of every American. We cannot be forced to embrace it. We must choose it.

April 4, 2025 7 a.m.

America has Stage 4 cancer

We taxpayers have been paying for all this ‘corpulence’ for YEARS & now we must educate ourselves re the disgusting waste, fraud, corruption...

April 11, 2025 7 a.m.

Incompetence meets corruption

But they couldn’t have avoided knowing that in 2021 Ellsworth confronted a Highway Patrolwoman who had pulled him over for going 88 mph in a 55-mph construction zone – at night.