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Thank you for the recent coverage the flurry of Volusia County Council late-year activity regarding county employee pay increases and "wish list" expenditures that may burden taxpayers this year, and potentially for years to come if the local economy sours. Raises exceeding the cost of living adjustment and proposed multi-million-dollar expenditures for upgrades and new government facilities suggest County Manager Jim Dinneen and the County Council expect growth and revenue to continue to "flood" into Volusia County in 2018 and for years to come.
Critics of President Donald Trump's various proposals to crack down on illegal immigration say there is little need to do so. The number of people coming into our country illegally has dropped dramatically, they say.
It became clear almost immediately after an Amtrak train crashed in Washington earlier this 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.
Alabamians are hopeful the ringing in of a new year brings a measure of sanity to politics in the Heart of Dixie. The waning hours of 2017 offered a touch of closure to another year of embarrassing shenanigans that kept the state under the glare of the national limelight.
Our representative in Congress, Adam Kinzinger, recently had the courage to visit a Braidwood high school, even as he continues to avoid actual interactions with real voters. He won't do a real town hall and he's literally run away from constituents attempting to speak to him.
There were so many gigantic news events in 2017 that the merely huge, or yooge, got the dog-bites-man treatment. What happened while we were focused on the president's tweets; the attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act; the hurricanes in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico; the tax bill; and #MeToo? Los Angeles Times Opinion asked two close observers of the media environment, Adam H. Johnson and Sean Davis , to list the top 10 under-covered stories of the year.
On this first day of 2018, many of us wish we had crystal balls so that we could see the future. But it's impossible for any of us to know where we will be 365 days from now.
The campaign to discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller has reached a shrill and desperate phase, as some believe it is more important to protect Donald Trump's interests than to establish how and why an adversarial government influenced a presidential election. The goal is to dismiss any findings damaging to the president as political bias; to invent corruption in the highest echelons of law enforcement, notably in the FBI; and to preempt any discovery of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia with distractions.
In this March 2017 file photo, the Kansas Senate debates the Governor's tax bill. If you take a look at AP's top 10 stories in Kansas in 2017, you'll be reminded what a fascinating and disturbing year it has been for our state.
At midnight we will witness the end of the most successful first year any president has had since Ronald Reagan. Reagan was in office for just six months in 1981 when the air-traffic controllers went on strike in violation of federal law.
After a decade of stagnant growth, America needed a change and the nation's tax reform is a big first step. Even more so it's giant leap for North Dakota.
The White House has fired a warning shot in Michael Flynn's direction, with The Post's Carol D. Leonnig reporting that it plans to label him a liar who can't be trusted if he makes claims against it. The strategy isn't that shocking - President Donald Trump seemed to preview it with that fateful tweet, and his lawyers have hinted in this direction too - though it makes it crystal-clear that Trump's loyalty to his former national security adviser is far from absolute.
Lance Dutson couldn't be more wrong about local protests. In his Dec. 26 BDN column , "The real dark money in Maine," he claims it's big political organizations in Washington, D.C. that are funding the protests against the oppressive Republican policies.
An unprecedented alliance of government, business, education and conservation leaders have united to provide a solution for one of America's greatest threats-the decline of our fish and wildlife and their natural habitats, and what this means for people and the economy.
Rep. Paul Ryan, the deficit "chicken hawk," should resign now rather than continuing his 18 year charade as a congressman who cares about deficits. Ryan has spent his entire adult life in Washington and is definitely "part of the swamp".
There is very little Republicans and Democrats seem to currently be able to agree on. I hope the following may be that one thing: The citizens of this great country have the right to see a complete list of those in Congress who have used our money to settle their sexual harassment charges.
Here's a puzzling twist: The winner of the 2016 presidential election is losing badly in polls. And the loser of the 2016 election is losing even worse.
Candidates vying to fill the congressional seat that will be vacated by U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa do no service to Hawaii by framing campaigns as opposition to the Trump administration, even if it plays well in this bluest of blue states. Read More