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Manchester University: A $5 million gift from a 1940 graduate boosts efforts toward the $8.5 million Lockie and Augustus Chinworth Center, which will serve as home for the College of Business and student services.
Category Archives: Opinion
New Year’s resolutions, fake news, Jeb Hensarling, Russia, voting, poverty, bicycles, thank you notes
With compassion, not with anger. That can be in person, as a letter to editor or to Congress.
Who is behind Northern Pass?
The University of New Hampshire men's hockey team knew it was going to face adversity at some point this season.
The Flynn-Sehgal letters: U.S. Soccer responds to the NASL
Given the lawsuit the NASL filed against U.S. Soccer and now in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, tensions between the two organizations are high. That's evident in the written exchange between NASL interim commissioner Rishi Sehgal and U.S. Soccer CEO Dan Flynn regarding the league's election concerns.
Lack of Trump envoy not a major concern
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Editorial: Subverting the Russia probe
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., shown here at the Capitol on Dec. 21, has raised alarms that he is trying to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. We don't generally subscribe to the notion that Donald Trump intentionally tries to be unpresidential on Twitter to distract Americans from bad news about the investigation into Russia and the 2016 election.
Guest Editorial: Retain regulations on offshore drilling
The Trump administration is behind a wave of efforts to undermine longstanding policies and sensible regulations on drilling for oil and gas off U.S. coasts.
Contributing Op-Ed Writer: Two Ways of Looking at Gerrymandering
Even though Doug Jones won a famous statewide victory in last month's Alabama Senate race, he actually lost - less famously - to Roy Moore in six of the state's seven congressional districts. That's right: He carried only the heavily black Seventh Congressional District, into which the Alabama Legislature has jammed almost a third of the state's African-American population while making sure that the rest of the districts remain safely white and Republican.
Graham: Donald Trump hits Bannon with ‘Fire and Fury’
It's not even the first Friday of the new year - the Trump presidency itself isn't even one year old yet - and already American politics is off the rails. Donald Trump's political BFF, Steve Bannon is quoted calling a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer "treasonous" and "unpatriotic."
Asia’s ‘best’ and ‘worst’ of 2017
As 2018 begins in Cambodia and around the world, we take a last look at what made headlines and, fitting in this day, lit up Facebook and Twitter in Asia in 2017. From the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's half-brother at a Malaysia airport to smog-filled Indian skies and a year-end US presidential visit, the images were all-too-real.
Lawmakers misbehaving? Let us see their names
Americans are being deluged with information about men accused of sexual harassment or assault. Since shocking revelations emerged about Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein in October, the Los Angeles Times notes, "a powerful person has been accused of misconduct at a rate of nearly once every 20 hours" - including such big names as Dustin Hoffman, Charlie Rose, Kevin Spacey, Matt Lauer and Garrison Keillor.
Illegal aliens? Apparently we have to look to the skies
The aliens are here, the aliens are here - illegal aliens from outer space. And what is President Donald Trump to do? Put out tweets referring to them as "little green men," no matter if that is politically incorrect, stereotypical speciesism? Call for a transparent, impermeable, continental dome that the aliens will be forced to pay for? Or maybe just say a former Pentagon official is guilty of fake news? This latter alternative is probably the most acceptable, although it would be a shame because we've been given something solid to think about.
Editorial: It depends on what the meaning of ‘every vote’ is
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Will President Trump’s political luck hold in 2018?
If President Donald Trump totally dominated the political landscape in 2017, and there is no reason to think he will lose his ability to drive the new cycle, in 2018 he must contend with some supporting actors: the economy, health care markets, and the midterm elections. The GOP, after a year of legislative failure, finally passed a tax bill at year's end.
Need to make up for human error
It became clear almost immediately after an Amtrak train crashed in California last month that excessive speed was to blame. The train was traveling at 80 mph on tracks rated for 30 mph when it derailed, killing three people and injuring many others.
Iranian Jews in a time of protest
"People are even angrier now than in 2009, and not just because of poverty and corruption. People want to be free and everyone is screaming now, loudly, at the same time."
The one resolution our government should write
The years are flying by faster than an egret can spear a sprat. I thought maybe I could slow things down by dating this column Dec. 34, 2017, but I decided it's time to move on.
EDITORIAL: Pentagon audit is long overdue
Back in the 1990s, Congress wisely imposed budget-transparency mandates on federal government agencies. Being bureaucracies, they didn't always swiftly comply.
What was the Burning of Chambersburg really like?
In his latest book, "The Thin Light of Freedom," Edward Ayers reveals the Civil War through the Franklin County people who lived it. The Burning: 1864 The Ransoming, Burning and Rebirth, a reenactment of the burning of Chambersburg during the Civil War, saw downtown Chambersburg in "flames" the night of July 15, 2017.
Reader disputes job projections
A slew of letters have been published by The Brownsville Herald stating that liquefied natural gas terminals, to be built at the Port of Brownsville, will bring lots of jobs. We are forgetting that those jobs will be mainly jobs during construction, and then they will need janitors.