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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Democrats don’t fight for their principles

The Democrats have failed us once again. They say they tried but they just couldn’t get it done.

3 hours ago

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Column is based on a false premise

The recent column, “Boy Scouts should allow gay leaders,” is a classic example of someone starting with a false premise and reaching a false conclusion. The false premise is this: Being homosexual is the same as being black, so disqualifying homosexuals from an activity is the same...

3 hours ago

OPINION

TV networks content to serve up schlock

It's funny that networks are afraid of the past, given that they're stuck in it.

3 hours ago

OPINION

Obamas’ message not just for black students

Telling black folks in a piercing way to dig deeper is not harmful in the abstract. But fairness demands a comparable directive from other commencement speakers to white graduating classes.

3 hours ago

OPINION

One school’s Catholic teaching

No one at the Catholic high school that fired Carla Hale in March claimed that she was anything less than a terrific physical education teacher and coach, devoted to the kids and adored by many of them.

2 hours ago

EDITORIALS

Keep York County buses running

York County Access, the on-demand bus service that takes county residents to medical appointments, grocery shopping and jobs, is a service for people who otherwise don’t have access to affordable transportation. It was never designed to be a profit generating business for the county.

OPINION

Test driving a Tesla

In a world beset by environmental pessimism, where many believe we must lower our expectations, downsize our lives, and adjust to the notion that tomorrow will be worse off than today, Tesla offers a rip-roaring, 120-mph riposte.

OPINION

Wimps versus barbarians on campus

As a speaker was beginning a presentation to show how many millions of dollars such a disinvestment would cost the college, student activists invaded the meeting, seized the microphone and shouted down a student who rose in the audience to object.

OPINION

‘Scandals’ could actually hurt Republicans

Republican strategists – and the few conservatives on Capitol Hill who were in Washington during the Clinton years – are less excited. They fear that the party is about to repeat the mistakes it made in 1998.

OPINION

Ethics reform: At a crossroads

A year after political scandals launched a cluster of competing study panels and catapulted ethics reform to the top of the 2012 campaign agenda, the Legislature has reached a critical crossroads. What happens in the Senate will determine how strong we can hope our new ethics law to be.