THE DAY’S OPINION
Region could lead the way to improve lawmaking
'Rats' inserted into legislation at the last minute, legislation passed under cover of darkness, hearings that don't serve the public — these abuses need correcting.
The trickledown economics of hunger
Proposed USDA rules ignore Congress' intent and would hurt most the people in labor markets where the average employment rate is not what it seems.
Start mascot discussion at the local level
A stronghanded move in the legislature to ban all potentially offensive school mascots would make the debate more political, further tugging it into the cultural wars.
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Multiple factors expose world to 'doom' warn scientists
Humanity continues to face two simultaneous existential dangers — nuclear war and climate change — that are compounded by a threat multiplier, cyber-enabled misinformation warfare.
Abuse of power reason for impeachment
The argument that only criminal offenses are impeachable has died a thousand deaths in the writings of all the experts on the subject.
GUEST COMMENTARIES
Smell of fear in Richmond
Stirred up by the president, gun owners came out in armed droves to protest laws that would do them no harm and might do them some good.
Want to fix infrastructure? Stop state's corporate welfare.
We wouldn’t even be talking about tolls if billions of dollars had been spent on infrastructure instead of handed to corporations.
Remove Trump because, ‘If right doesn’t matter, we’re lost’
You know you can’t trust this president to do what’s right for this country. You can trust he will do what’s right for Donald Trump.