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Holding Space for Good

I thought the University of Louisville had listened. Two years ago, the university hosted public meetings about the prospect of developing Stansbury Park, a historic Olmsted-designed park at the edge of campus. The community pushed back, and the idea seemed to disappear. Then, in August, U ...

Gary Franks

What all the current and future members of Congress should recognize, thanks at least partially to President Donald Trump, is that our Constitution needs tweaks. If the 120th Congress will make holding a constitutional convention a top priority and will not simply attack Trump's acts, it could ...

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." — Voltaire (1694-1778) A government that claims the authority to kill persons after they have been subdued, disarmed, tried, convicted and confined in prison has ...

Letters to the editor

Republican Failure Editor: Republicans on our local midterm ballot have ALL failed to represent our best interests as constituents. Most of the people in the Copper County want excellent affordable healthcare, a robust sustainable economy, high quality education for our children, a strong elite military for defense of our country, the freedom of speech and practice of religion, and an effective government that represents the will of the people. Republicans have delivered on NONE of these pertinent issues. Instead, they have chosen to blindly give allegiance to a convicted felon ...

The Raffel Ticket

The United Kingdom stood virtually alone against the Nazi war machine in June 1941. As Germany prepared to invade the Soviet Union that month, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, a lifelong anti-communist, declared, "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of ...

Froma Harrop

About three weeks before Republicans expect an electoral beating, Donald Trump had to get rid of Kimberly Guilfoyle, his ambassador to Greece. He simply had to. Trump's money-grabbing corruption was wearing thin even on devoted fans, but the president knew how to wrap his mob-like patter in ...