Preble encourages input to require Brookfield to make the Middle Dam renewal project a positive experience.
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Robert Samuelson: Has America gone socialist?
Samuelson explores the idea that America may have already gone socialist.
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Rich Lowry: Elizabeth Warren is wrong about the Electoral College
Lowry makes the claim that if Democrats just chose better candidates to run, they would win — without abolishing the Electoral College.
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Marc Thiessen: Democrats the biggest threat to the Constitution
Thiessen writes that Democrats would have the public believing that President Trump is a threat to the U.S. Constitution. But it is Democrats themselves who pose a larger threat.
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Ramesh Ponnuru: War on opioid abuse is striking the wrong target
Patients in pain have become collateral damage in the war on opioids. That’s the message of a letter from more than 300 medical professionals, including three former White House drug czars, to the Centers for Disease Control. In 2016, the CDC issued guidelines to discourage doctors from overprescribing opioids. The signatories believe that those guidelines […]
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Michael Strain: Brace yourself for the 2020 Medicare wars
By Michael R. Strain Bloomberg Opinion Democrats called President Donald Trump’s budget “dead on arrival” when it landed in Congress last week, and they are almost surely correct. After all, Congress, not the president, controls actual spending levels. But that doesn’t mean Trump’s plan for fiscal year 2020 should be ignored. Instead, it can be […]
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Bloomberg opinion: Democrats should produce a budget
The following editorial appears on Bloomberg Opinion: The process of funding the U.S. government begins when the president submits a budget request to Congress in February. Then everything falls apart. At least, that’s the way things have been going, year after year. In a more rational world, Congress would prepare a budget resolution of its […]
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Leonard Pitts: A fire at my house
Pitts tells of the trauma of a fire in his house and the questions it brought.
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Jennifer Rubin: The worst reason ever not to run for president
By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post It was crazy to think a freshman senator, an African-American with an unusual name, could win his party’s nomination and the presidency. It was far-fetched to think a governor of a small Southern state whose convention speech bombed and who sat out the Vietnam War would beat a sitting […]
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All downhill from here? Maybe
We’ve reached that point in a long winter — the ground at my house has been covered by snow since Nov. 11 — when it seems that nearly all conversations start with the weather and soon include the F word. Florida. Seems we’re barely into a conversation when someone says, “Maybe next winter I’ll go […]