City leaders who dropped the ball are still dropping it. Call in state auditors.
Letter:Â As discussions continue around tariff rates and forced labor enforcement, I encourage policymakers to balance these important objectives with the economic realities facing America's small businesses.
- By Lynn Schmidt
No one will vote to eliminate the Missouri hospitals in Sedalia, or Memphis, or Lexington. No bill will name them for closure. They will be closed by arithmetic.
Letter:Â Reflecting pools typically have a black or gray bottom. This produces the most accurate reflected colors without tinting them with the color of the bottom of the pool.
Letter:Â Donald Trump, the president during our country's 250th celebrations, will undoubtedly be judged as the worst president in American history.
- By Janet Y. Jackson
If we open our minds, education can come from the most obscure of places.
Cartoonists from across the country react to the opening of Barack Obama's presidential library.Â
His secret release of personal voter data deserves a full judicial examination
"Why can state officials not stand up to these requests for voter information? Who are they afraid of?"Â
"Why do we feel so badly about our country? ... We are so blessed, yet we complain so much."Â
"Why does the handling of these problems always seem to fall on the city of ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ and its taxpayers?"
Every time I get asked by a TV anchor what I think about the drama of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, my favorite "historical" headline from the Onion comes to mind: "World's largest metaphor hits iceberg."
We are gradually becoming a nation entranced by spectacle, where it is easy to tell what people like or dislike, but hard to tell what they think.
Does history really repeat itself?
Letter:Â As discussions continue around tariff rates and forced labor enforcement, I encourage policymakers to balance these important objectives with the economic realities facing America's small businesses.
Letter:Â Reflecting pools typically have a black or gray bottom. This produces the most accurate reflected colors without tinting them with the color of the bottom of the pool.
Letter:Â Donald Trump, the president during our country's 250th celebrations, will undoubtedly be judged as the worst president in American history.
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No one will vote to eliminate the Missouri hospitals in Sedalia, or Memphis, or Lexington. No bill will name them for closure. They will be closed by arithmetic.
If we open our minds, education can come from the most obscure of places.
Every time I get asked by a TV anchor what I think about the drama of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, my favorite "historical" headline from the Onion comes to mind: "World's largest metaphor hits iceberg."
We are gradually becoming a nation entranced by spectacle, where it is easy to tell what people like or dislike, but hard to tell what they think.
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