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Opinion

Illustrating paths toward peace in times of war

Local columns

WASHINGTON — Accepting the Best Actor Academy Award for his role as Robert Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy dedicated his Oscar to “the peacemakers” in our post-atomic bomb world. That struck a chord close to home. My mother wrote the book on women peacemakers. An Austrian aristocratic ...

Almanac

Local columns

By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Thursday, March 14, the 75th day of 2024. There are 292 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein, who would revolutionize physics and the human understanding of the universe, was born in ...

Don’t test your luck this St. Patrick’s Day

Editorial

This year, St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Sunday. The celebratory day is one of the biggest drinking occasions of the year, and this, unfortunately, means more drunk drivers on the roads. With St. Patrick’s Day falling on a Sunday, we can expect a fairly dangerous weekend for drivers and ...

Almanac

Local columns

By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Wednesday, March 13, the 74th day of 2024. There are 293 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On March 13, 2013, Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope, choosing the name Francis. he was the first pontiff from the ...

President and Congress need an intervention

Local columns

WASHINGTON — When some people appear beyond help because of addiction or other circumstances they can’t control, family members have been known to stage an intervention. Congress and President Biden need an intervention as their addiction to spending exceeds anything seen in history. In ...

Hiding behind fees isn’t what FOIA is for

Editorial

Governments are people and, from time to time, people do embarrassing things. Things they’d rather not display — like a mural on the side of a big Detroit skyscraper. However, in the matter of a half-dozen such large-scale murals, and the investigation into whether the deal was on the ...