Comment & Opinion

$91 million cost-cutting system
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 29, 2025
The federal government has spent more than $91 million on implementing its cost-cutting Technology Business Management system, but the new system has ...
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Let renewables walk on their own
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 28, 2025
President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” nixed a host of green energy handouts created during the Biden administration. In response, advocates f...
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What would Uncle Herschel think?
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 28, 2025
Corporate marketing has gotten considerably more challenging in the culture-war era. Julie Felss Masino, the embattled CEO of Cracker Barrel Old Count...
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Stop the middlemen: Congress must act on PBM reform
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By MATT ESPENSHADE 
Aug 28, 2025
As president of the Pennsylvania State Grange, I hear the same concerns from families, farmers and small business owners across our state: prescriptio...
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Nudging the left back to Earth
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 27, 2025
In a memo addressed to “All Who Wish to Stop Donald Trump and MAGA,” the center-left think tank Third Way urged Democrats to end their fixation on wor...
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Blunder leads to unexpected scenic route
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By DEB WUETHRICH 
Aug 27, 2025
Everyone makes mistakes. Smart people learn from them. For some, it takes more than one wrong turn for the lesson’s full impact. Some of these experie...
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Do you know what’s in your DNA?
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By F.D. FLAM Bloomberg Opinion 
Aug 26, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — Genetic information can be life-saving in a medical emergency, yet it’s still rarely collected from adults — even when doctors are st...
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IRS computers are ‘inoperable’
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 26, 2025
A contractor that received $1.5 million from the Internal Revenue Service for computer maintenance left some computers unusable for over a year, accor...
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Debt continues to threaten economy
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 25, 2025
Earlier this month, the national debt surpassed $37 trillion, twice what it was just a decade ago. Once upon a time, the national debt was the subject...
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Domestic tranquility: A shared federal responsibility
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BILL O'BRIEN InsideSources.com/TNS 
Aug 25, 2025
When you have lived most of your years within an institution, you may be able to see only what the institution has been, not what it must now become. ...
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Trump punishment tossed in NY case
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 22, 2025
A politically motivated legal attack on Donald Trump crumbled on Thursday when a New York appeals court tossed out a multimillion-dollar financial jud...
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Change comes from outrage; keep it up
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By MARCIE SCHELLHAMMER marcie@bradfordera.com 
Aug 22, 2025
Outrage can get things done. I've been doing this work for close to three decades, and I've seen change. One of the biggest reasons for it has been co...
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Trump’s Russia-Ukraine summits show he can push for peace
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By MIKHAIL ALEXSEEV Los Angeles Times 
Aug 22, 2025
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (TNS) — By hosting an unprecedented short-notice summit with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and key European leaders on Mon...
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With hordes of drones, what could go wrong?
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By DEREK DONOVAN The Kansas City Star 
Aug 22, 2025
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (TNS) — Imagine you order a new toaster from Amazon. Instead of one of those dark blue electric vans rolling up your driveway, a four...
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Other Voices: Putin is not our friend
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 21, 2025
As a proud veteran of the U.S. Air Force who served our nation during the height of the Cold War, I found the behavior of President Donald Trump at th...
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