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America has not learned the right lessons from Charlie Kirk's murder

Editorials and columns

It feels like just yesterday that America lost Charlie Kirk. I remember every detail vividly. Charlie and I were in daily contact that week, as he prepared for his next national campus speaking tour. I was part of an intimate Zoom meeting he had organized the night prior to its first stop, at Utah Valley University. Less than 24 hours later, it was the site of his murder. Everything about the assassination was astonishing: the unconscionable security failure from the campus police and Charlie's detail, the fact he was killed while modeling robust and respectful debate, the ...

Dreamers , TPS workers must be protected

Letters to the Editor

Families across our communities are already struggling with the rising costs of health care, child care, and aging and disability care. At the same time, our country faces serious shortages of workers who provide this essential care. Yet instead of investing in care and stability, immigration policies are putting these workers—and the families who depend on them—at risk. Losing trusted caregivers can deepen workforce shortages, disrupt care for children, older adults, people with disabilities, and patients, weaken local economies, and increase costs for families. Dreamers and TPS ...

The bad actors

Letters to the Editor

In the aftermath of the revelation that APS school board member Monica Dziesinski hired an elite, down-state law firm to influence the outcome of the school board recall, there is a question that lingers in that stinky airspace. Many community members have wondered where the money came from to fund an expense of this magnitude. Estimates are that level of legal advice likely came with a $10,000-20,000 price tag. We should all pause on that thought for a moment. Did Dziesinski have an extremely successful bake sale or did she have a benefactor? If Dziesinski had a benefactor it would ...

When leftists pounced on the unity of 9/11

Editorials and columns

Not every American president has sounded the right notes for our national pain after the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Twelve days after Hamas unleashed its mass murder in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, President Joe Biden suggested that 9/11 was all about the Arabs and the Muslims. "I know ...