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Opinion

A bad bet

Columns

In 2018, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to strike down a federal law banning sports gambling, thus allowing individual states to decide whether to allow it, or not. It didn't take a genius to predict what might happen, especially when politicians can find new sources of revenue beyond income, ...

Emphasizing the importance of bats this Halloween week

Editorial

Take a moment this week to consider a mammal that has struggled in this region in recent years: bats. As the only mammal capable of true flight — the others all glide — bats are not just unique and fascinating but also extremely important members of our natural world, according to the ...

Leave federal workers alone

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: How did federal employees become the enemy or the scapegoat for our nation’s problems, according to some members of Congress?   Federal employees are our neighbors who keep us safe at airports, protect our food and water supplies, predict our weather and manage our ...

Three strange paths to not thinking about you-know-who

Columns

Are you, like me, kind of freaking out a little bit? Do masked men patrol your city streets, snatching people up and throwing them into vans headed for overcrowded detention centers where they will be held incommunicado and pressured to sign self-deportation orders that abrogate their rights ...

First amendment speakers should not become Pentagon publicity outlets

Editorial

An important set of circumstances is playing out at the Department of Defense these days that many readers either may not be aware of or know about it f but haven’t thought it through. On Oct. 15, Defense Department officials — read Secretary Peter Hegseth and others in his orbit — said ...

Shutdown reasons clear

Letters To The Editor

As of this writing, the federal government has shut down. There are 2 main issues: 1. Health Care; 2. Congress’ constitutional power to set the budget and the president's constitutional duty to follow the budget. Re: Health care: Democrats are asking for an extension of tax credits for ...