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Holiday plans a turkey trot

Opinion: When Better Homes and Gardens wrote about a “fuss-free” Thanksgiving, clearly they weren’t picturing


Obama must look beyond bin Laden

Opinion: Barack Obama has said there can be only one president at a time. But in this interregnum — when the


City government on notice regarding slum properties

Editorial: If the story at the top of the Local section in Friday’s Vindicator had a familiar ring to it,


Have no fear of liberal professors

Opinion: Last week one of my students expressed a conventional sentiment about colleges and politics: with


Win in Iraq is at hand; Pelosi, Reid wrong

Opinion: Nineteen months after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared the war in Iraq “lost” and just


Sexual harassment training’s a sham

Opinion: Four years ago, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 1825 into law, requiring all


Old faces are the new face of Washington

Opinion: WASHINGTON — So far Barack Obama’s apparent Cabinet choices give little evidence that his pledge to


A lamer duck than usual

Scripps Howard: Congressional lame-duck sessions are notoriously unproductive and this one is no


“With these transactions, the U.S. government is taking the actions necessary to strengthen

Opinion: “With these transactions, the U.S. government is taking the actions necessary to strengthen the


Support our neighbors

Opinion: Support our neighbors EDITOR: With apologies to some area car dealers, I have been truly


“Until they show us the plan, we cannot show them the money.”

Opinion: “Until they show us the plan, we cannot show them the money.” Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.


Round two for automakers

Editorial: Round two for automakers If only they had gotten together and shared a private jet to Washington,


Big Three don’t have their act together

Opinion: WASHINGTON — What are we to think of the Big Three automakers plea to Congress (and each of us) for


Hillary would be superstar diplomat

Opinion: PROVO, Utah — If Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes secretary of State, it could not have escaped the


Conservative jurist finds fault with ruling on right to bear arms

Opinion: WASHINGTON — Of conservatives’ few victories this year, the most cherished came when the Supreme