Democrats have tried to rev up the outrage machine over news that Rep. Steve Scalise, the number-three ranking House Republican, may or may not have given a speech to a white supremacist group in Louisiana 12 years ago. Not only has the Democratic Party attacked Scalise himself, it has also gone after the House GOP […]

Increasingly known throughout the United States and abroad, the “Circus Lady” ”“ the founder, executive and artistic director of St. Louis-based Circus Harmony ”“ “has a long history of building bridges,” as St. Louis Public Radio’s Linda Lockhart reports (”Reactions to Grand Jury’s Decision Reflect Diversity of Perspectives,” Linda Lockhart, stlpublicradio.org, Nov. 25). “Over the […]

The Day of New London (Conn.), Dec. 27: Nearly a century ago, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., in issuing an opinion on a First Amendment case, famously wrote, “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre.” We wonder how Justice Holmes and […]

I just wanted to say briefly that I wholeheartedly throw my support in the new Sanford High School and Technical Center referendum taking place on Tuesday, Jan. 13. I would like to think I have been a part of this process from the beginning when it was first made public. From the very first meeting […]

The Brattleboro (Vt.) Reformer, Dec. 25: Two decades into the Internet revolution and political leaders around the world are still trying to figure out how to control, regulate and bend it to their will. Internet governance is at an inflection point right now and debate about the fundamental structure of the Internet is ramping up, […]

Late at night the lights burned in the governor’s study. Mario Cuomo was reading, he was writing, he was worrying, he was agonizing, he was brooding. For as all the world knows, Cuomo, who died Thursday just after his son, Andrew, was sworn in for his second term as governor, knew misery and torment. He […]