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Opinion

Legislative lessons learned in 2025

Editorials and columns

Remember back to your elementary school days when you finished one grade, had the summer off, and then the challenge was to remember the lessons you covered in the previous grade and transfer that to the new grade. They call it learning. So as they wrote into the history books the legislative ...

Marking time in an unceremonious world

Editorials and columns

The hot take that floated into my inbox this week was that resolutions are passe. Apparently, thinking about "next year" is outdated. We're in this grind of time and marking it arbitrarily doesn't matter. But, really, we time-travel constantly. It's one of the best things about being ...

Forgetting those things which are behind

Editorials and columns

The year 2025 passed pretty quickly, almost in the blink of an eye. It began with tragedy as soon as January hit, with 14 people being killed in New Orleans when a driver rammed his truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street. A similar deadly incident happened in Las Vegas when an active-duty U.S. ...

Wind power lies costing blue-state ratepayers

Editorials and columns

Red states have low electric rates. Blue states gouge residents and businesses with exorbitant rates. But even worse are the bald-faced lies blue-state politicians tell you to defend the gouging. Instead of admitting that expensive electricity is a choice they're deliberately making -- your ...