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EDITORIAL: Better road to pay for state police

Debates over unresolved elements of the state governmentĢƵ new $44.45 billion budget – including more than $600 million for four state-affiliated universities’ in-state tuition discounts, $100 million in “level-up” funding for poor school districts, and more – have obscured ...

OP-ED: Biden’s age might not be a problem

Confession: For the past couple of years, I fell into the “Biden shouldn’t run again” camp. Too old. Better not to ask Americans to reelect a man who will be 82 in November of 2024 and ... you know the rest. Nikki Haley summed it up tactlessly in April: “The idea that he would make it ...

700-plus years and counting? What would Hillary think?

The one-term, twice-impeached, four-time-indicted, ex-president Donald John Trump is now facing a combined 712½ years in prison sentences.He’ll plead not guilty to all 91 criminal charges against him.Was there any doubt he’d do that?He may not appear to be humbled by it all on the outside. ...

Use it, build it, and, yes, they’ll come

“Fenway Park,” John Updike begins his famous 1960 piece on Ted Williams, “is a lyric little band box of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curious sharp focus....”Goodness, thatĢƵ not what the ball yard in Rowes Run resembles. Like Fenway Park in Boston, Rowes Run ...