The grisly winter racing season at Santa Anita finally, mercifully, came to a close Sunday, with 30 horses dead from racing or training. The latest death was […]
Columns/Opinion
Do you really want to travel the world that much?
Hypertourism has become the curse of desirable places all over the world. It refers to the swarms of tourists who clog the plazas and narrow streets of […]
Likability: Never underestimate it
Lynne Agress The Baltimore Sun As we near the 2019 Democratic debates, I clearly remember one January 2008 Democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire — the site […]
Chernobyl: Who owns the risks
A recent book “Midnight in Chernobyl” and an HBO miniseries on Chernobyl have brought to light the nuclear power plant disaster that took place 33 years ago. […]
Monument to journalists a vital reminder
David Dreier The Baltimore Sun This week marks the first anniversary of the deadliest assault against journalists in U.S. history. On June 28, 2018, a gunman opened […]
New York Times’ Sulzberger is right (and wrong)
I never thought I would write this, but the publisher of The New York Times, A.G. Sulzberger, is right. Sulzberger wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street […]
‘At least there was some civility’
Critics of Joe Biden are falling over themselves in a rush to castigate the former vice president — and current front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination — […]
Developments in floodplains proving costly
BY HARRIET FESTING In early June, Diane Mueller fled her flooded home near St. Louis, for the second time in two years. She hopes it won’t happen […]
Stonewall still playing out 50 years later
Leonard Pitts is on vacation. his column will resume on July 8. In late June of 1969, the New York Police Department raided the Stonewall Inn, a […]
Congress must protect Title X health care program
BY JESSICA McCOLLEY As a maternal-child physician, I provide care to some of our state’s most vulnerable populations. Large portions of this area’s people live on the […]