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Absurd battle over the debt ceiling

by Robert Reich Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced that the federal government will hit the limit on total federal debt on Jan. 19. After that, the Treasury Department will be forced to take “extraordinary measures” to avoid defaulting on the debt, which would likely ...

Who says Washington, D.C., can’t keep a secret?

by Martin Schram The art and craft of investigative journalism often feels like a never ending work-in -progress. And that’s the way it was this week, after the news broke last Monday, and was confirmed by the White House, that about 10 classified documents had been discovered in ...

Jan. 15 letters to the editor

State leaders’ failure shown on Chaplin Hill Another winter, another chance to damage your car driving on Chaplin Hill Road, the northern entrance to Granville, Star City and Morgantown off Interstate 79, Exit 155. It only took some freezing weather in December to regrow the potholes ...

Pa. House Speaker flips from ‘D’ to ‘I’

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Come January in Harrisburg, there are two constants: The annual Farm Show will be better than it was the year before — it always is — and swearing-in for the new two-year legislative session is guaranteed to be packed with drama. Tuesday was no exception when the ...

They never tire of abusing Dr. King

by Tom H. Hastings During the fight over the new House Speaker election, Congress member Chip Roy (R-Texas), who voted against the anti-lynching act last March, had the immoral temerity to quote Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He did so as he explained how he was positioning himself to the ...

Warner to fight D.C. ‘wokeism’ … as governor?

Mac Warner says he’s going to fight the “wokeism” and “absolute silliness” of Washington, D.C., because “We don’t want their liberal agenda, we don’t want 87,000 new IRS agents, we don’t want child mutilation, and we want parents to have control in our children’s ...