Opinion

Other Voices: Memoir misinterpreted
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 06, 2026
I cringed when I read about my deceased husband, Dr. Widad Bazzoui’s memoir, "The Man From Baghdad," in a letter to the editor in the Sept. 3 edition ...
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Waste of the Day: $79 million to not work
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 06, 2026
Contractors working for the state of Illinois took a 470,000-hour paid lunch break on taxpayers’ dime. A company hired during the Covid-19 pandemic to...
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Dem leader lashes out at moderates
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 06, 2026
To determine a political party’s priorities, see what makes it upset. The rise of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is one of the biggest ong...
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Joyful spending is America’s guilty pleasure
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By ALLISON SCHRAGER Bloomberg Opinion 
Sep 06, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — Americans like to spend money, and they’re good at it. But they also feel kind of bad about it. According to a survey from Ally Bank,...
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How measles got political
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Sep 06, 2026
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In 1982, C. Everett Koop became surgeon general of the United States. His unusual appearance — bright bowties and a mustache-less f...
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Waste of the Day: The federal ‘Google’ agency
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 04, 2026
The Department of Commerce’s National Technical Information Service charged taxpayers and other federal agencies $50 million in 2013 for electronic co...
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Hidden cost of massive national debt
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 04, 2026
The national debt isn’t just a big number. It’s a major anchor on economic growth. On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that government bond y...
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We are cannibalizing our history
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By SARA EDDY FURLONG s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
Sep 04, 2026
There is considerable interest in — and concern about — what will happen as artificial intelligence consumes more of its own output. AI produces somet...
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At 6 months, there is no clear winner in the Iran war
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By DANIEL DePETRIS Chicago Tribune 
Sep 03, 2026
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The war in Iran, the “little excursion” that was supposed to be over in four to six weeks, passed its six-month mark on Friday. And...
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Florida is the epicenter of the GOP’s vaccine problem
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By MARY ELLEN KLAS Bloomberg Opinion 
Sep 02, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — Republicans have painted themselves into a corner by undermining vaccines. Nowhere is this clearer than Florida, where the outgoing R...
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Other Voices: Truth from Dr. Bazzoui
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 02, 2026
How many people know that our own Dr. Widad Bazzoui of Bradford wrote a very important book, "The Man from Baghdad," that all children and adults shou...
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Waste of the Day: HUD funds had little impact
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 02, 2026
The Department of Housing and Urban Development spent $460 billion funding its 18 largest affordable housing and homelessness programs over a decade, ...
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In 2nd-degree murder cases, punishment should fit the crime
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By SCOTT MARTIN RealClearPennsylvania 
Sep 02, 2026
Simple common sense tells us that violent, dangerous criminals who present a serious threat to our communities belong behind bars. It’s a shame common...
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9/11 stories still resonate
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By DEB WUETHRICH 
Sep 02, 2026
The images were horrifying. Shock spread like an oppressive cloud that stretched across the country — the world. And those who lived through it will n...
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Waste of the Day: Chips are down in Ohio
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 01, 2026
Federal money meant to help Ohio manufacturers was spent on ghostwritten articles, golf outings, poker chips, T-shirts and a celebrity who was paid al...
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Target Iran’s supply lines without widening the war
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By COLTON OVERCASH RealClearPolitics 
Sep 01, 2026
The United States can destroy Iranian launchers, warehouses and weapons factories and still fail strategically if Tehran can continue replacing what i...
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What ‘affordability’ really means to working-class voters
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By JOAN C. WILLIAMS and JARED ABBOTT Bloomberg Opinion 
Sep 01, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO (TNS) — Democrats’ obsession with “affordability” is right on target, given that American workers’ share of GDP is near the lowest ever ...
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Waste of the Day: Audits flag UConn payments
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Aug 31, 2026
In the last 11 years, the University of Connecticut Health Center has spent more than $690,000 on payments to employees for unused paid time off that ...
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