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Better late than never on gun reform

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was one bright spot that was almost entirely overshadowed: For the first time in decades, Congress passed legislation addressing America’s out of control gun violence. The bill, Bipartisan ...

SCOTUS on a roll

The U.S. Supreme Court is on a roll — crushing rights and smashing precedents as it goes. We understood this wave of potentially bad decisions was coming — the nation’s highest court usually saves its biggest, most controversial rulings for the end of its session. But one can only do ...

June 26 letters to the editor

Someday is now: Donate to ReTails I wasn’t born a collector — I was raised to be a collector by my parents and grandparents. They survived the Depression and learned to find value in everything. The smallest washer, broken tool or threadbare jeans could be used, repaired or repurposed ...

The answer to gun violence isn’t to turn schools into prisons

In the last couple weeks, local schools have been testing their new weapons detectors, and area high schools plan to have them up and running for daily use come fall. Take a moment to digest that. Guns and extremist rhetoric have become easily accessible nationwide. Now, the scourge of ...

Senate gun safety deal isn’t small potatoes

by George Skelton Politicizing is paying off. And hopefully we’re headed for the slippery slope that gun lobbies long have dreaded. The response is automatic from gun groups and their elected toadies every time there’s another horrific mass shooting and frustrated firearms ...

June 19 letters to the editor

U.S. can’t stop climate change on its own President Biden has selected 2005 as the base date for carbon emissions. The following is carbon emissions data by the International Energy Agency from 2005-20 in millions of ...