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Opinion

Almanac for Nov. 5, 2025

Local columns

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 5, the 309th day of 2025. There are 56 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony defied the law by casting a vote in the presidential election; she was later arrested and charged with "knowingly voting without having a lawful ...

November is National Diabetes Awareness Month

Editorial

November is National Diabetes Awareness Month, an important time to raise awareness and promote healthier lifestyles to prevent and manage diabetes. Diabetes is a disease that causes high blood glucose or sugar. The hormone insulin is needed to move the sugar, but diabetes limits the body’s ...

Answers sought on US attacks

Letters to the Editor

The following is a letter I submitted to U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman on Oct. 19. Since then, four more unarmed boats have been attacked. U.S. forces have attacked and sunk six unarmed boats, which the Defense Department identified as Venezuelan drug traffickers heading to the U.S. However, the ...

Shoot first, ask questions when?

Local columns

The United States is engaged in summary executions on the high seas. That bald fact is being obscured by talk of drug interdiction and war powers and whether we're certain the drugs on those boats were headed for the United States or somewhere else. Let's be clear. Even if we knew for certain ...

First general election since Trump returned as president

Local columns

WASHINGTON (AP) — One year after Donald Trump retook the White House and set into motion a dramatic expansion of executive power, the Republican president figures prominently in state and local elections being held today. The results of those contests — the first general election of ...