| Oct 19, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyMy newspaper died. Well, technically it still appears. But it has no life, no news, and barely a pulse. It’s a mere semblance of a real paper, one of the hundreds of local journalism zombies staggering along in cities and towns that had long relied on them. Each one...
| | Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn states across the country, cynical politicians are turning a humanitarian crisis into political theater. New Hampshire Governor John Sununu recently announced that he was deploying the state National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border, joining around two-dozen mostly...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyMy wife and I recently had the tremendous misfortune of needing to buy a car. Car prices, you may know, reached an all-time high between this year and last. There are now rumblings of a gradual decline, but rising interest rates will likely offset any savings. So with...
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| Oct 12, 2022 | RoundupAn overwhelming majority of Americans now supports the legalization of cannabis, but hundreds of thousands are arrested for marijuana violations each year. President Biden recently pardoned all federal offenders charged with simple possession. That turns out to be a...