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Deborah Levine: Don’t let climate change kill us
"Hot" only begins to describe the weather over the July 4 weekend. Let's try some other terms: blistering, burning up, Armageddon.
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Free Press Opinion: The more things change, the more things remain the same
The French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr knew what he was talking about when, in 1849, he coined the phrase "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." (The more things change, the more they remain the same.) It has been repeated and attributed to different people, but he appears to have said it first.
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Ron Hart: Maine, a political Rorschach Test
Spending time in Maine this month, it occurs to me it is just like other states. It has a flag, people and divided politics.
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Cognitive Assesment
Clay Bennett's Times cartoon for July 17, 2026.
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Free Press Opinion: Send Tony Hullender to state legislature in District 27
When he visits District 27 voters, Republican Tony Hullender says no one asks him about raw milk.
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Free Press Opinion: Support Brooke Weaver, Vince Dean for county, Criminal Court clerk
Both Brooke Weaver and Vince Dean face opponents in their races for Hamilton County clerk and Hamilton County Criminal Court clerk, respectively, but their candidacies are so far superior to their opponents that they may as well not have challengers.
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Times Opinion: Planning post showed need for input from all types, Collier writes
Mayor Wamp, Mayor Kelly — thank you. It seems like yesterday, but it was over 12 years ago that Jim Coppinger and Mayor Andy Berke appointed me to chair this commission, and it has certainly been one of the great honors of my life.
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Free Press Opinion: Health secrecy for elected officials only makes the cruelty worse
We were glad to see the photo Sunday of a smiling Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, alongside his wife, Elaine Chao. The 84-year-old McConnell revealed Sunday that he had been hospitalized following a rough June 14 fall at his home leading, he said, to "mild pneumonia."
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Times Opinion: Was the U.S. created as a Christian nation?
Judy Woodruff of PBS had a Crossroads segment in June on "PBS NewsHour" concerning the debate over whether America was founded as a Christian nation.
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Times Opinion: Facts don’t win elections. Stories do
As a student, I was taught that politics is a contest of ideas. Experience has shown me otherwise.
