by Robin Abcarian The Justice Department’s report on what went wrong in Uvalde, Texas, nearly two years ago when an 18-year-old gunman armed with a high-powered rifle […]
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Instead of protecting them from guns, Texas’d rather fingerprint kids’ bodies
by Robin Epley When I was in about fifth grade, my elementary school held an event where the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office came and talked to us […]
Teacher did what Uvalde cops couldn’t
by Will Bunch There were two stories out of the American heartland this week that mostly got lost in a frenetic autumn of political anxiety and baseball […]
Capito, Manchin join in support of Safer Communities Act gun safety bill; Capito expands on opposition to gas tax holiday
MORGANTOWN – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito talked with members of the West Virginia press today, voicing her support for the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act – the response […]
June 19 letters to the editor
U.S. can’t stop climate change on its own President Biden has selected 2005 as the base date for carbon emissions. The following is carbon emissions data by […]
June 5 letters to the editor
Guns changed since Second Amendment Another horrific mass killing of children in schools — now in Texas but previously in Florida, Connecticut, Colorado and Florida. How can […]
When distressed children come to the ER, I wonder about their life paths
by Dr. Sabreen Akhter On the afternoon that the world found out about the brutal slayings of 19 elementary schoolchildren in Texas, I was trying to sleep. […]
We must address guns but that’s not the only solution
by Cynthia M. Allen In the aftermath of a tragedy like the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, when emotions and egos are running high, few of us […]
Saving America from within
by Martin Schram “Seven Days in May,” the epic 1960s novel and a film starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Ava Gardner, was a fictional tale about […]
So much for the good guy with a gun
So much for the good guy with a gun. That, you will recall, was NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre’s preferred solution to America’s epidemic of firearms violence. “The […]
