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Voters driving for bargains still should shop for value

Does anyone remember the Chrysler K-car? Not the K-cup. The K-car.

2/19/2019 Our Opinion 0 comments

He usurped the purse

In civics class I was taught Congress had the “power of the purse.”So it struck me that the state of emergency declared by the president runs counter to the tenets of democracy we were taught in school.

2/19/2019 Letters to the Editor 0 comments

Don’t drive distracted

I read with great interest the letter from Denny Offstein in the Feb. 8, Butler Eagle. The writer makes some excellent points and I commend him for his concern for the motoring public.

2/19/2019 Letters to the Editor 0 comments

Politicians sank the Amazon deal

Oh hi there, fellow New Yorker picking through the rubble after the collapse of a deal that would’ve brought up to 40,000 good jobs and solidified the city’s tech-industry leadership for a generation: Can we now talk rationally about incentives designed to attract businesses to our city...

2/19/2019 Other Voices 0 comments

Stop boasting black jobless rates

At every rally, during every speech, during many cabinet meetings and often on Twitter, President Donald Trump asserts a fact as evidence of the nation’s strong economy: Unemployment rates for black and Hispanic Americans are at record lows. This is largely correct.

2/19/2019 Other Voices 0 comments

‘The Affluent Society’ revisited

I am rereading “The Affluent Society” with pleasure and profit.

2/18/2019 Robert Samuelson 0 comments

Dems can’t get dogmatic enough

Many of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates and would-be contenders have taken thoughtful and admirable positions on various issues over the years, eschewing blind partisanship and ideological dogmatism. Now they’re paying for it.