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The March 19 Economy & Business article “Trump lays blame for plant loss on union” discussed the president’s displeasure with Lordstown, Ohio, UAW Local 1112 President David Green, who had the tem...
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The Arlington Public Schools’ budget proposal to eliminate elementary school library assistants is misguided and unwise, and it would directly affect student achievement. The American Associatio...
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“I was never a fan of John McCain, and I never will be,” President Trump said recently at the White House, reinforcing his narcissist pursuit of a validated man card as a warrior wannabe by the...
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My morning laugh on March 20 came courtesy of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s op-ed, “Familiar foes: Ignorance and hate,” rather than the clever ripostes in “Mike du Jour” and “Baldo.” The president of Tur...
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Rep. Elijah E. Cummings’s (D-Md.) March 20 Wednesday Opinion essay, “The obstructionist in chief,” laid out in compelling detail the intransigence of the Trump administration to turn over docume...
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I agree with Richard Cohen that former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) should not run for president, as Mr. Cohen wrote in his March 19 op-ed, “Biden and Sanders are too o...
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This week’s “Free for All letters.”
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After reading the March 18 op-ed by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), “Applying our values to all nations,” I would like to ask her two questions: Is it Israel’s fault that Somalia is a failed country?...
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Regarding David Toscano’s March 17 Local Opinions essay, “Get in the weeds on Virginia’s energy policy”: Virginia’s State Corporation Commission (SCC) fulfilled its duty to provide members of the Gen...
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The March 14 Metro article “Zoo security fencing that reduces pedestrian access is approved” indicated that the proposal to extend security fencing around the National Zoo was, after extended deba...
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E.J. Dionne Jr. had it exactly right in his March 18 op-ed, “We can’t ignore Trump’s ‘tough’ threats.” President Trump’s statement that he has “the support of the police . . . the military, the su...
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The March 17 front-page article “The fentanyl failure” rightly highlighted the Obama administration’s slow response to the emergence of fentanyl as a driver of overdose deaths. But it is wholly in...
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) had it backward in their March 17 Sunday Opinion essay, “Make daylight saving time permanent.” Keeping standard time all year is the best...
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The March 19 front-page article “Meeting to build rapport led to tears” brought me to tears. I was grateful for and encouraged by the efforts of some of our lawmakers to get to know one another. H...
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Thanks for the outstanding March 17 Opinions Essay by Robert Kagan, “The strongmen strike back.” To find unexpectedly such an informative piece of writing made my day. I have been wandering in t...
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Though I respect Donald Trump as president, I think his continuously speaking negatively of the late senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) stems from two problems. Mr. Trump may be ashamed. McCain served...
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Richard Diamond, in his March 17 Local Opinions essay, “Stop Virginia’s speed camera shakedown,” demonstrated an impressive ability to twist and twiddle just to avoid speaking the truth: Drivers b...
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I read with great sadness and disgust the March 17 Metro article “Arlington approves Amazon deal 5-0.” I saw the related local news report on NBC4 referenced in the article — again, pathetic. Mos...
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I was infuriated within two paragraphs of the March 17 Metro article “Amid rising racial tensions, enrollment at historically black schools surges.” I was hoping to read an informative article abo...
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Regarding the March 17 editorial “A bigger higher-education problem”: The...
