As a retired asthma and allergy physician and a new grandmother, I am extremely concerned about a bill being considered in Congress that would devastate the Medicaid program and significantly cut programs that clean our air. I spent my career caring for people who depend on treatments and medications as well as clean air to […]

Protesting is a form of free speech against the government or policy decisions that affect our way of life. There is something eerily familiar about the “riots” in Los Angeles and the use of force against the protesters. People have been protesting in this country before it was a country. Think of the infamous Boston […]

Seeing our House of Representatives cannot decide on how to protect our girls, maybe the voters should. Let’s put this issue to referendum in the fall and let the people decide. That way there will be no questions on who was in favor or not. Susan Lara Perry

To prevent conflict in the wake of the Second World War, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower made sure to balance power in the Middle East. As president, he would defend this hard-won balance by forcing the British, French and Israeli withdrawal from Egypt when they invaded to take control of the Suez Canal. It would remain […]

For years, we’ve talked about the “new normal” in terms of weather, traffic and housing costs. But now we face a far more dangerous version, a political “new normal” where power is used for personal profit, executive orders replace democratic process and long-term allies, courts and constitutional protections are casually dismissed. When this newspaper reported […]