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Opinion

Feeding the hungry without SNAP

Editorials and columns

Now what? The on again/off again SNAP food assistance program has been ping-ponging the 1.4 million hungry recipients in the state back and forth for weeks and with the Supreme's slapping a hold on the distribution on some of the funds, the question is now what? The director of the ...

Does the Democrats’ chaos strategy work?

Editorials and columns

We can draw a few conclusions from an off-year election, when iconic races in blue states went, as expected, overwhelmingly Democratic. Nevertheless, there is only a year left before the midterms.so Republicans must react to even these paltry results. 1) Democrats' chaotic nihilism still ...

Georgia, Not New York, Told the Big Story

Editorials and columns

Tuesday brought encouraging results for Democrats eyeing a sweep in next year's midterms. But the most notable portent wasn't the governor's races won by Abigail Spanberger in Virginia or Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey. Nor was it Zohran Mamdani's election as mayor of New York City. The most ...

An unwelcoming atmosphere at school board meetings

Letters to the Editor

As a community member who values open dialogue, I am deeply concerned about the increasingly unwelcoming atmosphere at our school board meetings. Each meeting’s public comment period begins with a lengthy 2-minute, 16-second lecture from the board president detailing what can and cannot be ...

How did this happen?

Letters to the Editor

FEMA- Federal Emergency Management Agency Hurricane Andrew, 1992, Florida and FEMA is there. Hurricane Katrina, 2005, New Orleans and FEMA is there. Hurricanes Irene and Sandy, 2011 and 2012, New York City and FEMA are there. Ice storm in northern Michigan, 2025 and FEMA isn’t ...