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Opinion

Yes, Ozempic for all

Editorials and columns

Americans are going to get a little healthier. President Trump cut deals with the drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to increase access to obesity drugs in a major benefit to American public health. The agreements are a win-win-win -- good for consumers, good for the companies and good ...

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 ...