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Is left coast poised to take a right turn?

Opinion: SAN FRANCISCO — Political speculation swirls. Meg Whitman, billionaire former eBay CEO and leading


FAA moves on new air traffic plan without local input

Opinion: FAA moves on new air traffic plan without local input EDITOR: As someone who depends on local


Attack unemployment

Opinion: Attack unemployment Milwaukee Journal: President Barack Obama wants to spend $100 billion to


This is the winter of America’s discontent

Opinion: It has been more than four decades since the Congress of the United States has been able to summon


Give nurses bigger role in health-care reform

Opinion: Skilled health provider. Sympathetic caregiver. Trusted dispenser of medicines. Capable interpreter


New Orleans Saints captured the attention of a nation

Editorial: New Orleans Saints captured the attention of a nation It wasn’t exactly the battle of the giants.


Fairness is a nice but fallacious concept

Opinion: If there is ever a contest to pick which word has done the most damage to people’s thinking, and to


Iran’s lies are there for all to see — in pictures

Opinion: On June 20, a young Iranian woman was shot dead at one of the mass protests that followed the


A tax increase proposal in midst of a recession?

Editorial: The story would have stuck out like a sore thumb even without the headline, “Lowellville mayor: Tax


Fish farms are the real problem

Opinion: The humble Asian carp is causing big trouble in the United States. Last month, the Supreme Court of


Cuts in U.S. aid send wrong message

Opinion: If President Barack Obama’s foreign aid budget request for 2011 is a reflection of his priorities in


Wealth migration is a growing trend

Opinion: “What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything


Miami Herald: Oh mighty Spirit, you soared over a mountain as tall as the Statue of Liberty and

Opinion: Miami Herald: Oh mighty Spirit, you soared over a mountain as tall as the Statue of Liberty and


Stop the closing of Toyota’s plant

Opinion: President Obama mentioned “jobs” 23 times in his State of the Union address, underscoring the fact


Some tips for maintaining churches as safe sanctuaries

Opinion: Some tips for maintaining churches as safe sanctuaries EDITOR: The issue of church safety is