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Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> The world had endured a tumultuous year by the time Christmas Eve rolled around in 1968. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy had been assassinated. France had been shut down due to an uprising in May. The Vietnam War raged on. The ...

OP-ED: For Trump, character matters

Leaving aside all the sometimes legitimate and sometimes illegitimate responses from defenders of former President Donald Trump following his indictment by a New York grand jury, there is something that would have made all the difference for the 45th president had he focused on it as his top ...

EDITORIAL: Don’t tie pensions to inflation

Government employees need not fret how wild swings in financial markets will affect their pensions. Public employment is the last bastion of the “defined benefit” pension plan.Public pension plans — funded by workers, taxpayers, and plan investments — must pay the defined benefit.The ...