Letter: Veto hearing aid bill

TRICARE's website states the company's mission is to "enhance the Department of Defense and our nation's security by providing health support for the full range of military operations and sustaining the health of all those entrusted to our care." I am a married 66-year-old veteran with three grown children.

Ita s time to work together

It's time we kick drug companies and insurance lobbyists out of the healthcare conversation, listen to the American people, and finally work together to lower prices and make healthcare work better for everyone. Because thousands of Ohioans stopped by my office, wrote letters, made calls, and shared their stories, we were able to stop a bill that would have raised premiums and kicked millions of Americans off of their health insurance.

Rothenburger: Stone’s Liberal pedigree runs deep

If the B.C Liberals want a candidate who can follow in the footsteps of the departing Kevin Krueger, that is, if they want someone as fervently loyal to the party, as staunchly convinced the NDP is a political disaster waiting to plunge the province into economic ruin, they need look no further than Todd Stone. On the eve of Premier Christy Clark's trip into town to announce good things for RIH, Stone was announcing he wants to succeed Krueger.

Justice going GOP, again

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is switching parties to join Republicans as President Donald Trump plans a visit to the increasingly conservative state. Justice's plans were confirmed to The Associated Press on Thursday by a Democratic Party official with knowledge of his plans.

Your Opinion: Trump undermines voter integrity

The United States of America allows for people who are registered voters to vote for a specific candidate without fear of being thrown in prison because of our choice. It means that we can choose to vote or not vote regardless of our race, religion, without fear of losing our job, without our income becoming the deciding factor of whether or not our vote should count, and that we don't have to tell anyone how we voted unless we choose to do so.

Our Opinion: Area schools compassionate while struggling with parents’ meal debts

Schools in Central Missouri, along with the rest of the nation, have been struggling with how to deal with outstanding balances on school-provided meals. The Southern Boone school district has amassed about $30,000 in debt from outstanding meal balances.

Eternity too long for juvenile offenders: Letters

This quote from State Attorney Glenn Hess in the article "State resentences few juvenile lifers" about Florida's refusal to review life sentences for juvenile offenders is mind blowing: "There's a good justification for them to have a significant sentence. We have kids who were gang members when they committed a murder.

Evidence shows that freedom works

I know many Democrats and progressives who continue to be frustrated by the conservative Republicans who have controlled the North Carolina General Assembly since 2010. The Left has spent years stating and restating its standard narrative about our state: that North Carolina has historically grown faster and been more successful than other Southern states because it was more willing to spend tax dollars on higher education, infrastructure, and other government programs.

Sen. Jeff Flake takes a question from the audience during a town hall in April in Mesa, Ariz.

Will Bunch has worked at the Daily News for 20-plus years and is now senior writer. Since 2005, he's written the uber-opinionated, fair-but-dangerously unbalanced opinion blog "Attytood," covering a range of topics ; it's been named best blog in the state by the Associated Press Managing Editors and best blog in the city by Philadelphia Magazine.

A terrorism trial in the federal courts

Republicans raged over what they called the White House's weak and dangerous decision last week to prosecute in federal court a man suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda, rather than shipping him off to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Sorry, wrong year.

OPINION | Trump didn’t cause our constitutional crisis – he’s the reaction against it

Trump haters come in all shapes and sizes but one belief they all seem to hold in common is that the temerity of the American people in electing Trump didn't cause our constitutional crisis - he's the reaction against it Dem campaign chief vows no litmus test on abortion MORE What they missed is that the crisis is already here and it's been brewing for years. It's just not the one they're looking for and, contrary to what Left wing commentators would say, Trump isn't the cause of the crisis, he is the response to it.

Alabamians and the tussle between President Trump and AG Sessions

If you're curious where Alabama voters, by and large, fall on the topic of President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, consider this: "And to a striking degree in a state where Mr. Trump won 62 percent of the vote last fall, Republicans and Democrats alike have closed ranks around Mr. Sessions, who was the state attorney general before he won a Senate seat four times and joined the president's cabinet. Interviews with voters from four counties, three of which supported Mr. Trump, revealed near-absolute confidence in Mr. Sessions's virtue and conservatism, a swelling of state pride and, in this case at least, an encroaching skepticism of the president."