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Opinion

Consumer Connection: Tree damage and insurance

Columnists

Severe weather, high winds, or old age can cause trees or large branches to fall, sometimes causing damage to your home, garage, fence, or vehicle. In the aftermath, many homeowners wonder if insurance will cover the damage and what steps to take next. In most cases, standard homeowners ...

Heading toward Midterm Elections, Democrats not up off the floor

Columnists

Here’s a clue that the off-year elections in November 2026 may not go the way conventional wisdom suggests. That conventional wisdom is that the president’s party almost always loses the House and, slightly less often, Senate seats. There are two structural reasons for this. One is that ...

Illiteracy

Your View

To the editor, The reasoning behind an interview by Robert Maharry with Lonnie Hogeland is questionable. Filing for municipal office has not begun, Hogeland has not focused on a specific office and the scattershot remarks by Hogeland reveal an unfocused mind. His remarks are immature, mean ...

Self-confidence

Columnists

What is self-confidence, anyway? Confidence is hard to define, but self-confidence generally refers to a sense of comfort with yourself and your instincts and a belief that you can trust your own abilities, knowledge, and judgment. Confident people welcome new challenges because they know ...

Populism can win back working class voters

Columnists

The Democratic Party lost big in 2024. If it hopes to bounce back, making inroads with the working class is the only way possible — and a new report from the Center for Working-Class Politics and Jacobin shows that economic populism is the best path to bring them back. Democrats have ...

Think twice about trees

Your View

Editor, we’ve got a local business that wants to expand, and our city leaders are telling him how many trees he needs around his expansion. I know of a building project years ago that gave up on his plans after the city council started adding on what he had to do. I hope city leaders think ...