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Many summers ago, 55 individuals took it upon themselves to try to improve the exasperations and the shortcomings facing them. They had to decide to either try to improve or completely change the path of the future.
Category Archives: Opinion
Robert B. Reich: The huckster populist
As we've seen this bizarre political year, the biggest force welling up is rage against insider elites in both parties and against the American establishment as a whole - including the denizens of Wall Street, large corporations and the mainstream media. Now, with Bernie Sanders essentially out of the race, Donald Trump wants Americans to believe he's the remaining anti-establishment candidate.
Mark Shields: The campaign post Comey
Even though Democrat Hillary Clinton continues to lead Republican Donald Trump in nearly all major public polls, the answer to one question in the most recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll had to trigger panic attacks throughout the entire Clinton campaign. Respondents were asked whether Trump or Clinton "would be better" on "being honest and straightforward."
Sunday’s letters: Attack reflects poorly on Beckner
I have always had the highest regard for Commissioner Kevin Beckner. That ended when I read this article on his attack on Pat Frank and took a look at his campaign website.
Revisiting the Iraq War
SEVEN years, 12 volumes of evidence, findings, and conclusions, and one executive summary later, the Report of the Iraq Inquiry, more commonly referred to as the Chilcot Report , is available for one and all to read. Few people will get through all of it; the executive summary alone is so long that it calls for its own executive summary.
Long story short
Since 1968, when the new Interstate 787 closed Albany's glorious Union Station to trains, many have sought to better connect the city to the passengers who now arrive across the Hudson River in Rensselaer. The latest idea, an aerial gondola, is enticing, but it makes little fiscal sense.
Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton
This presidential campaign has been a media circus from the very start. Both parties are at each other's throats and you hardly ever hear a good remark from either.
Images of our community
HOT BLAST: Do you agree with the FBI's decision to not pursue criminal charges against Hillary Clinton over her use of email? Take our reader poll. Hillary Clinton won't be prosecuted for how she handled her email while serving as secretary of the State Department, FBI director James Comey announced Tuesday.
50 years of not-so-open records in America
Fun fact to know and share: One of its most enthusiastic supporters was a young Republican congressman from Illinois named Donald Rumsfeld. Yes, that Donald Rumsfeld, the one who was secretary of the Defense Department during the George W. Bush administration.
How to Handle Wheeling-Area Panhandlers
My wife and I moved to Wheeling nearly five decades ago. And now we are enjoying our retirement on Wheeling Island, the place where we raised our four wonderful children.
Jack Kelly: Being unindicted is insufficient
Libya has become a base from which ISIS infiltrates Europe and other countries in North Africa. In 2012, senior State Department officials ignored or rejected pleas from Ambassador Chris Stevens on down for more security.
Pittsburgh schools are making progress
Pittsburgh has a long tradition of community involvement in the public schools. Our new superintendent, Anthony Hamlet, will get lots of advice as he starts his job.
Americans have many reasons to be horrified
Outrage and horror were on every news program Friday morning over the shootings in Dallas. But the outrage and horror are misplaced unless directed at legislators at all levels who refuse to compromise on any issue, who are wedded to extreme positions rather than those supported by the middle majority, who continuously oppose legislation simply because it is proposed by members of the opposition or who refuse to accept proposals because they might upset their largest contributors.
David M. Shribman: Experiments in Republicanism
The Gerald Ford Presidential Museum towers over the west bank of the Grand River here. The airport at the edge of town is named for the 38th president.
Blair carries on lying today to protect himself from the lies he has already told
Tony Blair's defence to the volume of evidence damning him is simple: pass the buck. In what you might call the 'big boy did it and ran away' strategy, he blames Sir John Scarlett and the Joint Intelligence Committee , and the spies from MI5 and MI6, for failing him.
Marin IJ Readersa Forum for July 10
Columbine. Virginia Tech. Fort Hood. Tucson. Newtown. Charlotte. San Bernardino.
A choice for president who isn’t a serial liar
Nothing to see there as most politicians are; it's sort of a requirement for getting to office, using half-truths or flagrant fabrications to get to the White House. One of the two - our guess is Clinton - will be our next president.
EDITORIAL: Police shootings ‘an American issue’
Twice this week, Americans again witnessed black men dying at the hands of police officers - the latest in a string of similar deaths captured on video. EDITORIAL: Police shootings 'an American issue' Twice this week, Americans again witnessed black men dying at the hands of police officers - the latest in a string of similar deaths captured on video.
Keep us free
Do you remember Adolf Hitler? Remember how he tried to take over Europe and get rid of Jews? I had the chance to visit with people who lived in that time period.
Call for non-violence should ring louder than gunshots
In the wake of new officer-involved shootings - both captured in part on cell phone videos - that left two black men dead in Louisiana and Minnesota after what appeared to be minor infractions, comedian Larry Wilmore offered the following non-comedic sentiment on Wednesday's "The Nightly Show": In the wake of new officer-involved shootings - both ... (more)