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Editorials

What other newspapers are saying: America can do better on health policy

America’s public health could be at risk if the incoming administration doesn’t correct some of the campaign rhetoric that may have helped Donald Trump win an election but has no merit now that voting is over. For example, inaccurate comments about water fluoridation that prospective U.S. ...

Sources of pride for our region

A couple who cares for those struggling most in our communities. A man who overcame his own struggles to help his neighbors afflicted with many of the same struggles. Firefighters and first responders who came to the aid of their communities even as their own lives and work were threatened by ...

The Democrats get the America they wanted

Political news website Politico reports that the Trump transition efforts are using private email systems to communicate and plan President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House. We believe the use of private email systems by public officials to conduct the responsibilities of ...

What other newspapers are saying: Preemptive pardons should be off the table

President Joe Biden used his pardon power in mid-December as the Constitution’s framers had intended: as a pre-Christmas act of mercy. He commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people who were released to home confinement during the pandemic and whom the president believes have successfully ...

Desire for historic preservation must be mindful of other factors

A debate in Philadelphia, chronicled by the Philadelphia Inquirer, has caught our attention and, we feel, highlights the risks when a desire for historic preservation teeters too far to an extreme. Calvary United Methodist Church, in Philadelphia’s Cedar Park neighborhood, recently was ...