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Opinion

Almanac

Local columns

By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Thursday, March 21, the 81st day of 2024. There are 285 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 21, 1965, civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their third, successful march from ...

A tale of two contagions

Local columns

WASHINGTON — Real life froze four Marches ago. Clocks stood still. Memory turned into before and after. The Covid pandemic claimed more than a million American lives. We don’t speak of it much, but we carry a deep sense of loss for all we missed. The trips we didn’t take. The friends ...

The smell of mendacity

Local columns

WASHINGTON — “What’s that smell in this room? Didn’t you notice it, B rick? Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room? There ain’t nothin’ more powerful than the odor of mendacity. You can smell it. It smells like death.”- (Big Daddy in”Cat on a ...

Quickly pass transparency legislation

Editorial

The state Senate Oversight Committee deserves credit for advancing a pair of bills that would for the first time and after a decade of effort finally subject the Legislature and governor to state transparency requirements. The committee this week sent Senate Bills 669 and 670 to the full ...

How has it come to this?

Letters to the Editor

EDITOR: When we were kids, it was common to yell “I’ll kill you!” at the slightest playground provocation. We then progressed w/age to it meaning “I’ll kill you at sports, racing, playing cards… etc.” Neither taunt was physically implemented, and were rarely taken with any ...

Almanac

Local columns

By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Wednesday, March 20, the 80th day of 2024. There are 286 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 20, 1996, a jury in Los Angeles convicted Erik and Lyle Menendez of first-degree murder in the shotgun slayings of ...