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Daily Herald opinion: Meeting a local jobs need: Select four-year degrees could be win-win for employers, students

Daily Herald opinion: Meeting a local jobs need: Select four-year degrees could be win-win for employers, students

Daily Herald opinion: Giving community colleges the ability to offer four-year baccalaureate degrees in limited, rigidly defined subject areas could provide the opportunity for more students to get them — and thereby help to fill needed labor roles in their communities.

 
Daily Herald opinion: Imbalance of power: Policy is worthy of debate and subject to change, but we cannot allow the means of enacting it to be altered

Daily Herald opinion: Imbalance of power: Policy is worthy of debate and subject to change, but we cannot allow the means of enacting it to be altered

Daily Herald opinion: Presidents have increasingly usurped Congress' authority over time, enabled by lawmakers from both parties who have failed to enact structural reforms to rein in executive power.

 
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Daily Herald opinion: A complicated legacy: Ryan’s life, leadership defined by diverse considerations

Daily Herald opinion: A complicated legacy: Ryan’s life, leadership defined by diverse considerations

Daily Herald opinion: Upon the deaths of certain political or cultural leaders, the legacy that is left behind can be readily apparent and, even if tinged by sadness, fairly easy to describe. And then, there is George Ryan.

 

Letters to the Editor

A worthwhile tariff

After an extremely frustrating time on the phone yesterday, it struck me that President Trump missed out on a tariff that I think American citizens would really get behin...

 

Many see coverage bias

I just wanted to comment on the letter from Mike Korkowski (Antioch) which was recently published in the Daily Herald. Spot-on, Mike. He was able to say what many of us b...

 
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Don’t increase hunger by gutting food stamps

Most people may not know it, but Trump and his fellow extremists plan to re-introduce their plan to cut billions of dollars from food stamps (SNAP). This is obscene. This...

 

Columns

The complicated, unproductive search for ‘the narrative’

The complicated, unproductive search for ‘the narrative’

Columnist Jim Slusher: When I taught high school journalism back in the 1970s, it wasn’t hard to lean on famous quotes that attempt to summarize some formula for deciding what deserves to be reported and how. But the truth today - as in the past really - is that news judgment cannot be compacted into a single clever phrase.

 
Biden's decline: The inside story and the outside story

Biden's decline: The inside story and the outside story

Syndicated columnist Byron York: The White House tried hiding Biden's senility through denials and attacking critics, but the public could see his confusion and freezing at events. Now, more details emerging on lengths taken to conceal the situation.

 
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Guys and dolls: A cringeworthy president tells the kids to suck it up

Guys and dolls: A cringeworthy president tells the kids to suck it up

Syndicated columnist Jeff Robbins: President Trump claims economic disaster is "golden age" - how long can his supporters deny reality?

 

Cartoons

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