Sound Off for June 25: Do we need a state lottery to help fund education?
I sure hope they get the beaches cleaned up just in time for the Fourth of July and all the fireworks that mess it up again. Ugh! Now it starts again.
Category Archives: Opinion
EDITORIAL: Another day, another investigation
Gone are the days when the losers went home after an election, to nurse their wounds, catalog their mistakes, and get ready for another round. Now an election is never over, and special prosecutors and their regiments of lawyers, egged on by the media, continue the campaign by "other means."
Letter: Where are all the Trump letters?
For the past eight years, I have read scathing, rude and hateful letters to the editor about President Barack Obama. Now that there is "a new sheriff in town," where are all of the letters-either pro or con-about President Donald Trump? I cannot believe that everyone out there is happy and content with the direction the country has gone over the past six months.
Donald Skunks the Democrats
YOU know who is really sick and tired of Donald Trump winning, to the point where they beg, "Please, Mr. President, sir, it's too much"? The Democrats just got skunked four to nothing in races they excitedly thought they could win because everyone they hang with hates Trump. If Trump is the Antichrist, as they believe, then Georgia was going to be a cakewalk, and Nancy Pelosi was going to be installed as speaker before the midterms by acclamation.
Despite rhetoric, secession isna t easy a ” or worth it: James Poulos
Secession has always held a strangely prominent place in the American imagination, and it probably always will. Restive New Englanders contemplated a break over the War of 1812 during the Hartford Convention.
Stephen Lynch: Reduce cost on health plans
The proposed Republican health care bill released by Senate leadership this week will "kill Massachusetts" without addressing any of the real flaws in Obamacare, Congressman Stephen Lynch said yesterday. "The two plans I've seen so far, they don't reduce the cost of health care, unfortunately," Lynch said during an appearance on Boston Herald Radio's "Morning Meeting" program, referring to the GOP plans passed by the House and proposed in the Senate.
From the Left: Eugene Robinson – With health care bill, the GOP is mounting a historic heist
The "health care bill" that Republicans are trying to pass in the Senate, like the one approved by the GOP majority in the House, isn't really about health care at all. It's the first step in a massive redistribution of wealth from struggling wage-earners to the rich - a theft of historic proportions.
A doctor’s view of Louisiana Medicaid expansion is it’s working: Opinion
I had the great misfortune to begin my career as a physician practicing in Louisiana without the initial expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Although many hundreds of thousands of people would have benefited significantly from the expansion, the gubernatorial politics of the time were firmly set against it.
Let’s Break Political Intolerance
The shooting in Alexandria, Va., that nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise should be a wakeup call for all of us concerned about today's nasty political rhetoric. But instead of tamping down the political rhetoric, there are those who are seeking to politicize this tragedy by compounding the blame and hate.
A Matter of Transparency
Numerous "American friends of" organizations exist in the Jewish communal firmament to help direct funds to worthy causes in Israel. That's what most people thought was the case with an organization known as Aish International - it was generally assumed to be the American fundraising arm of Jerusalem-based Aish HaTorah, the haredi Orthodox outreach group with programs throughout the world.
A Call for Thoughtful Dialogue
The human capacity to devise new ways to disrupt, terrorize, injure and kill appears limitless. And so it was on June 14 that James T. Hodgkinson, armed with a semiautomatic rifle, turned the congressional Republican team's practice for the next day's baseball game for charity into a bloodbath.
Op-Ed Contributor: Why We Must Make a Mockery of Trump
Let's look on the bright side: The spectacle of ireful Donald Trump supporters disrupting Shakespeare in the Park's production of "Julius Caesar" and the subsequent tweetstorm of abuse directed at any company with Shakespeare in its name prove that plays retain the power to shock and enrage. Who said the theater is all anodyne, feel-good musicals? I didn't see the production that turned Julius Caesar into a Donald Trump look-alike, so I can't comment on the accuracy of the impersonation or the violence against the president that some people believe it meant to incite.
National View: One climate solution that’s best for the environment … and business
President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord has induced a fateful pessimism about what can be expected of the country on this critical issue. Yet our long experience in Washington has taught us that the transition from the inconceivable to the inevitable can sometimes be very rapid.
Trump resistance will never be a Tea Party for Democrats
'Not my president' is not a formula for political revolution or expansion, it's just sour grapes by people who already vote Democratic. Trump resistance will never be a Tea Party for Democrats 'Not my president' is not a formula for political revolution or expansion, it's just sour grapes by people who already vote Democratic.
Let the Democratic Party freakout begin: Opinion
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, June 9, 2017. Democratic Party divisions are on stark display after a disappointing special election loss in a hard-fought Georgia congressional race.
You’ve Named Trump’s Worst
With a near tie for second place between Scott Pruitt of the Environmental Protection Agency and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. "It's hard to be worse than Sessions or Pruitt.
A sound NH budget: It is worth passing today
New Hampshire Republicans this week are looking a lot more like a political party that can get things done than are the Democrats, who are looking more and more like a bunch of soreheads who would cut off their noses to spite the other party.
Nonsense: Justice has chance to do more than showboat
But Gov. Jim Justice's spotlight grab Wednesday morning was so dishonest, disingenuous and full of self-serving nonsense that it made his publicity stunt with the dinner platter several weeks ago look like the work of a model statesman. If half of what Justice said was an accurate reflection of the consequences or content of the budget bill approved by lawmakers, he should have vetoed it.
Buck Up, Democrats
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The Donald Trump hiring crisis means America’s got no talent
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