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How does tax season make you feel? Angry? Tired? Probably both, but there's a good chance you also felt a bit confused while preparing your returns. And who could blame you? The mind-numbing complexity of the Tax Code, with its myriad deductions, credits and exemptions, can baffle anyone.
Arkansas' rush to wholesale executions: Our view Despite 11th-hour rulings, double executions are slated for both this week and next. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2pzeatV The beat-the-clock spectacle unfolding in Arkansas, triggered by the state's unprecedented scheme to carry out wholesale executions before the shelf life of a lethal injection drug expires, demonstrates more than ever how the death penalty in America is becoming less and less workable.
While we spend zillions on security at Mar-a-Lago and shuttling Trump children around the world and leaving Melania's son in private school in Manhattan, the President is cutting money to check if we're all swimming in fecal swamps. Yes, his budget would eliminate the funding that pays to test the water at our beaches every week for nasty bacteria.
There's a black hole in Colorado's campaign finance laws threatening to suck all the good light out of politics. Colorado lawmakers have a chance in the next couple weeks to close a black hole in the campaign finance universe that is sucking all the light out of politics.
I wasn't a big fan of PowerPoint presentations until I saw the one Tom Davis uses to depict some depressing trends in American politics. It shows polarization, which is no surprise.
As the Trump administration confronts the nuclear ambitions of North Korea's Kim Jong Un and the toxic fallout from Bashar Assad's chemical warfare against Syrian civilians, it is worth remembering that both dictators also command cyber-units. On the face of it, their impact is significantly less lethal, and they can easily be underestimated.
There are striking parallels between Watergate and Russia's intrusion in our election. In 1972, President Nixon's reelection campaign broke into the DNC offices at the Watergate Hotel and wiretapped its phones, hoping to facilitate Nixon's victory.
As president, Trump has backed off many of his provocative foreign policy promises. As president, Trump has backed off many of his provocative foreign policy promises.
When some two dozen concerned citizens in Williamsport held a "town meeting in absentia" for U.S. Rep. Tom Marino, R-10th District, last week to highlight the lawmaker's low profile in the sprawling district, they found out that he might never meet face-to-face with his constituents again. The former district attorney and federal prosecutor is in line to become Donald Trump's national drug czar any day now.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo delivered his first public speech Thursday. As a preliminary matter, Pompeo should provide some confidence that regardless of the temperament and views of the president, the CIA remains a professional, serious organization with a clear sense of its mission.
News-Journal reporter Eileen Zaffiro-Kean's recent five-part series "Tarnished Jewel" did an excellent job cataloging what's wrong with Daytona Beach's beachside and the numerous reasons it got that way. Some factors clearly had greater impact than others, but one excuse in particular stood out to me - in a troubling way.
President Donald Trump has been flip-flopping right and left recently -- much of it for the good. He's abandoned his promises to label China a currency manipulator, withdraw from NAFTA, repeal Obamacare and stay out of Syria.
The state's officially adopted target is 40 percent of its population having at least a four-year college degree, for another 40 percent having a two-year degree or a professional credential, and every Oregonian having at least a high school diploma. It's an ambitious goal, especially for a state with one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country and which bumps along toward the bottom of higher education spending.
Mainers breathed a huge sigh of relief when the American Health Care Act failed to get enough support to move through Congress. Thankfully, this damaging proposal was stopped, never making it to the House floor for a vote.
"If you know someone who's depressed please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.
Tom Marino, incumbent candidate for 10th Congressional District, speaks during an interview with the Times Tribune editorial board Wednesday. Michael J. Mullen / Staff Photographer Don Sherwood, a Wyoming County resident, ended the streak in 1999, and the chances of Lackawanna starting a new streak remain slim.
Editor: I find Republican Senators' actions regarding the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Scalia's death to be disgraceful. Put the political affiliation of the nominees aside and look at the real issue.
In this April 1, 2017 file photo, Republican GOP congressional candidate in the 4th district Ron Estes votes with his wife Susan Estes at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kan. Republicans escaped a special House election in Kansas with a single-digit victory in a district where they have romped in the past, an early warning sign for the GOP at the start of Donald Trump's presidency.