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Air show was a great event

Opinion: Air show was a great event EDITOR: I had the opportunity to attend the Thunder Over The Valley


Here’s a plan for passing health-care reform

Opinion: Here’s a plan for passing health-care reform EDITOR: Much is being said in both Congress and the


A sober look at a hot topic

Editorial: Chicago Sun-Times: There’s nothing like a dry research paper to help clear up the sexiest and most


Death of Taliban leader in Pakistan is good news

Editorial: The man considered the most dangerous individual in violence-prone Pakistan is dead, the victim of a


Bumble bee puts in a full day’s work

Opinion: For the past 15 consecutive years I have raised a half dozen six-foot-high highly productive sweet


Life’s still a snapshot, albeit a digital one

Opinion: CASCO BAY, Maine — I am back at my post. Feet planted on the porch railing. Back braced against the


Pelosi emerges as focus of GOP offensive

Opinion: She’s an outspoken advocate of her party’s policies but often her own worst enemy. So it’s hardly a


Immigration reform on hold; so is sanity on the drug war

San Jose Mercury News: Mexican leaders were disappointed Monday to hear President Barack Obama’s


Hikers to blame for arrest?

Opinion: AHMED AWA, Iraq — The three Americans being detained by Iran appear to have been hiking on a


Obama must push reform of mining law

Opinion: It was a great idea, during the dog days of summer, for President Barack Obama and his family to do


There’s no real substitute for a town hall meeting

Editorial: There’s no real substitute for a town hall meeting No one is eager to submit themselves to verbal


North American integration important

Opinion: The U.S.-Mexico-Canada summit earlier this week was almost universally described in the media as a


Chinese tires are Obama’s first trade test

Opinion: Barack Obama campaigned on a pledge to cushion American workers from the effects of trade, but he


Ryan in the crosshairs of pro-life groups

Opinion: It wasn’t that long ago that U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan received praise from some of the nation’s leading


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