Opinion
Minimum wage fail
Local columns
Not long ago, new kinds of jobs appeared: app-based gig work. They include jobs like dog walking on Rover, Taskrabbit work, DoorDash food delivery, Uber and Lyft driving ... Lots of people like gig work. It’s flexible. You work when you want to work. But “workers’ rights” activists ...
Court: Legal protections can end for Haitians and Syrians
Local columns
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to potential deportation. The 6-3 decision overturns lower court orders ...
Almanac for June 26, 2026
Local columns
Today is Friday, June 26, the 177th day of 2026. There are 188 days left in the year. Today in history: In 2015, in its 5-4 Obergefell v. Hodges decision, the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage across the country, ruling that state-level bans on same-sex marriage violated the due ...
Hegseth’s vaccine policy backfires with flu outbreak
Editorial
An influenza outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas has sickened almost 160 people in the past few weeks and might have even killed one person going through basic training. If it wasn’t already clear why Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to eliminate the military’s universal ...
