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River News: Our View
On Tuesday, on what would have been the late Charlie Kirk’s 32nd birthday, President Donald J. Trump awarded Kirk the highest civilian honor the nation has to bestow, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Life is always about choices: It’s always instructive to see what choices our leaders make, especially when …
River News: Our View
This past week, the state Assembly passed a package of bills — in hugely bipartisan fashion — to make housing more affordable in Wisconsin. That the bills were hugely bipartisan — Republican sponsored and Democrat supported — tells us they probably won’t do a thing to help affordable housing, but …
Trump is right: tech visas are raw deal for U.S. workers
The time has come to praise Donald Trump. Let’s savor the moment. The president is right to challenge the tech worker visa known as H-1B. This is a temporary visa that lets American companies hire skilled foreign workers in “specialty occupations.”
Dream weaver: Camp for inner-city kids highlights a great man’s legacy
“What I’ve tried to do,” Boston mega-philanthropist Jack Connors told an obituary writer interviewing him as he lay dying of pancreatic cancer, “is to make sure that the folks whose net worth is $10 get a break, too.”
A billion views!
Eight years ago, I left network TV behind. I worried that moving to social media wouldn’t work — that not enough people wanted news alongside cat videos. I also worried that not enough of you would donate to pay for it.
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Moms-to-be: Are you really taking advice from Dr. Trump?
Last Monday, Donald Trump issued an ignorant warning to pregnant women whose doctors prescribe Tylenol, a brand name for acetaminophen. “Don’t take Tylenol. Don’t take it,” he said. “Fight like hell not to take it.” And when in pain, “Tough it out.”
River News: Our View
For those of you who belong to the Boomer generation, or maybe just a little younger, you probably remember Robert Palmer and his great song, “Simply Irresistible.” One line from the chorus goes: “She’s so fine, there’s no tellin’ where the money went.”
Unity or division
To the Editor: On April 4, 1968, about five years after his brother, President John F. Kennedy, was killed, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was standing in front of a crowd of mostly African Americans in Indianapolis. In 1963, news was not instantaneous, so most people in the crowd were expecting …
At the seams: vitriol and violence threaten to tear our America apart
Recently, the student newspaper at an elite northeastern university analyzed the list of outside speakers invited to campus in order to assess where they stood politically. Two years in a row, it found that 93 percent of the speakers were on the left, and only 7 percent on the right.
A reader’s open letter to Senator Johnson
To the Editor: I am very disappointed Congress is not taking a stand to support the American people or the US Constitution. The president is charged with upholding the laws passed by Congress. President Trump is declaring ‘national emergencies’ to go around Congress and the Courts.
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Tourist crowds aren’t good for tourists, either
My sister and her guy just returned from Portugal after their second big travel venture of the year. I asked, naturally, “How was it?” She said, “Awful.” They were crammed in Porto alongside a zillion other tourists. A crush of bodies and long lines under a brutal sun. The experience …
How the White House takes power from congress
Russell Vought is the ultimate Trumper. The head of the Office of Management and Budget just anointed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to wind down the U.S. Agency for International Development (“wind down” being one of his favorite words) had a new stunt to try out to subvert constitutional …
From all directions: America’s become a place for hate
“You know,” the late William F. Buckley Jr. once mused, “I’ve spent my life separating the right from the kooks.” The conservative commentator was famously pugilistic, an ideological brawler, in fact, unrelentingly caustic, if eruditely so, about what he regarded as the deeply misguided policy prescriptions of liberal Democrats. Staunchly …
Slouching toward dictatorship: Trump reigns and America sleepwalks
Seems like only yesterday when warnings that Donald Trump qualified as a neo-fascist and that what he was selling qualified as neo-fascism guaranteed rolled eyes, dismissals that the warnings were hysterical, and cries of “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” a neat little expression utilized by those who argued that the evidence in …
Who will protect the kids?
Some parents abuse their kids. Child welfare workers are supposed to stop that to protect the kids. But bad things often happen while they watch.
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