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Opinion

Immigration reform needed

Letters To The Editor

Suppose a luxury liner with 100 passengers one day discovers there are four stowaways on board. Would you vote to toss the four overboard, or would you find a way to accommodate these less fortunate, hard-working stowaways? Now consider, of the roughly 340 million people in the U.S., 14 ...

Trump’s stupidest cabinet member, a hard call but a clear winner

Columns

At a press briefing on Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth complained about a CNN report that the Trump administration had underestimated Iran's ability to disrupt global oil traffic by closing the Strait of Hormuz. "Patently ridiculous," Hegseth told reporters, adding — even as the ...

Income tax returns due in a month

Editorial

State individual income tax returns must be filed electronically or postmarked through the U.S. Postal Service by 11:59 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, April 15. For more information about e-filing, go to www.mifastfile.org. “We are just about at the halfway point of the filing season,” said ...

Is this what we want?

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: In just one year, we have changed from a nation of peace to a nation of war, violence and aggression. Our Department of Defense has been re-named the Department of War. President Trump has shuttered the United States Institute of Peace, a federally funded non-profit ...

Trump’s Iran war not likely the jaunt he’s trying to sell

Columns

Here we go again. What else can one say to the stream of misinformation and disinformation flowing out of the White House and Pentagon since the war with Iran broke out? We have grown wearily familiar with President Trump's cavalier relationship with the facts. Combine that with his tendency ...

Railway Safety Act proposal anything but

Editorial

The White House is calling on Congress to include a railroad regulation bill as part of a larger transportation funding package this year. It’s not the first time President Donald Trump has supported it, and the legislative branch would be wise to ignore his counsel again. The Railway ...