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Pro-death state of Texas just keeps going and going

On May 24, Fox News blasted a headline, “New York City subway crime up 58% so far compared to 2021; Hunt for gunman in unprovoked shooting intensifies.” That day, a gunman shot 19 elementary school children and two adults to death in Uvalde, Texas. For the record, the number of homicides ...

Kemp and Pence are GOP heroes

Like Wyatt Earp after the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Donald Trump and his allies mounted up for a vendetta ride in Georgia. Unlike Earp and his posse, though, Trump didn’t get his man or any of his confederates, and Gov. Brian Kemp and Co. didn’t even have to leave the territory. Kemp ...

GOP governors stand up to Trump

WASHINGTON — At last, a formidable party body, the Republican Governors Association, has decided to challenge former president Donald Trump’s de facto party leadership. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, its co-chairman, has announced a fund-raising plan to oppose Trump’s grip on the Grand Old ...

Steve Patchin: The future of education in K-12 schools

One day while conducting a bus route ride-along, a young 5th grader named Keila approached me and stated “Dr. Patchin, we were just working on self-driving vehicles in our STEM Specials class. My friends and I were talking and we don’t think a computer should be driving our cars, it’s ...

High time we retire perp walk

Let’s talk about a police practice known as the perp walk. It’s the walk of shame of a suspected perpetrator of a crime, usually in a case that’s top of the headlines or soon will be. As police move the handcuffed prisoner from place to place, both the public and the media are allowed ...

Dear Annie: Suspicious of husband’s friendship

Dear Annie: For the past seven months, I’ve been having issues with my husband of 19 years. I found out seven months ago he’s been talking to an old female friend. He claims that she’s just a friend and that he’s interacting with her only via text and calls and that nothing is going on. ...