Editorial

TODAY IN HISTORY

1456 - Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats Sultan Murad II

Pets, humans must adjust after lockdown

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Dogs and cats have a magical effect on our mental health.

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor,

The heat is on

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Are we really at each other’s throats over coronavirus and politics or are we just all very crabby because of this heat? I don’t know about you, but I feel crankier than a toddler without a nap in this weather.

Media shouldn’t ignore attacks on Catholic faith

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There were church burnings this month, and statues of the Blessed Virgin were vandalized. You wouldn’t know it, though, if you depended on the local media for your news.

There’s nothing new about Roger Stone clemency

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Many Democrats, along with some in the press and a few Republicans, have expressed outrage at President Trump’s commutation of political operative Roger Stone’s jail sentence for lying to Congress and witness tampering. GOP Sen. Mitt Romney, the only senator ever to vote to remove a president of his own party, was particularly outraged.

Trump using students as coronavirus pawns

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Here’s how far Donald Trump is willing to go to ensure his re-election: After trying to normalize COVID-19 deaths among senior citizens and asking us to just get used to the fact that more people will die, he’s now willing to use America’s schoolchildren as pawns in a proxy fight with Democrats.

Brownfield program revitalizes underserved communities

This week, as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 50th anniversary commemoration, EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management is highlighting the agency’s Brownfields program and successes in revitalizing underserved and economically disadvantaged communities.

If COVID isn’t a national tragedy, what is?

My fellow Americans, I am today “ordering that Monday, August 3, shall be a national day of mourning. All of us should take time on that day to honor the memories of more than 134,000 souls taken by COVID-19. Flags will be lowered to half staff.” – Donald J. Trump, President

The ballot box as Pandora’s Box

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You can add another item to the list of shortages in our current age of the coronavirus.