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GOP crackpots jump the track in Ohio

At least four or five times a week, freight trains rumble past my house. The tracks are no more than 75 feet from where I park my car.Most of the early morning trains consist in part of tanker cars carrying who knows what chemicals. More than once I’ve wondered what would happen if just one ...

Troubles of young people deserve attention, action

The kids are alright, The Who once sang.Well, actually, they might not be.Some recent studies have shown that young people, particularly teenage girls, are experiencing disturbingly high levels of stress and distress. Granted, teens have been experiencing their share of angst since the whole ...

OP-ED: George H.W. Bush and Adam Clayton Powell on civil rights

I will always fondly remember from my political career two individuals. They were different as night and day. One a Republican president who became my friend and the other a Democrat born in Connecticut who would become my congressional role model — even though I never met him as I was in ...

OP-ED: Putin can win only if Josh Hawley-esque isolationists multiply

WASHINGTON — In autumn 1941, a few German units in HitlerÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ drive toward Moscow reached the cityÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ outer suburbs, close enough to see the KremlinÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ spires. Then Soviet forces counterattacked against a German army that lacked winter clothing because the high command had promised that the ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> As the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ reported Sunday, student meal debt continues to rise in the wake of a move by federal lawmakers to end funding that made school meals free for all students during the pandemic. The programÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ end comes at the same time ...

Maternal mortality rate points to problems in health system

Throughout the majority of human history, giving birth to a baby has been a dangerous pursuit.Hundreds of years ago, when knowledge of pregnancy and childbirth was still largely shrouded in mystery, as many as 30% of all women would die while giving birth. Even in times that are more recent, ...