Data centers aren’t winning many popularity contests. At least 15 states and more than 200 counties and municipalities have proposed or passed moratoriums against their development, often with bipartisan support.  When it comes to the…

On Nov. 3, 2013, my world stopped.  Just days before my husband, U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Forrest Robertson, was set to return home from his fifth deployment, I received the news he had been…

As a 2026 college graduate, I have some advice for the students heading to class this fall.  Whether you are an incoming freshman or a fifth-year senior, find a course or program that teaches debate…

The jokes about President Donald Trump’s secret escape from Turkey last month via an airport catering truck are still flooding the internet. Typical mockery included AI-generated images of the president hunched inside the truck gorging…

Good news strikes from an unlikely source. On Thursday the Food and Drug Administration approved Replimune’s immunotherapy for metastatic melanoma, a day after it green-lighted mFlusiva, Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine. The shame is that both…

The Trump Administration’s efforts to round up and deport “illegal aliens” (a term that always needs to be in quotation marks) has resulted in some tragic miscarriages of justice, as anyone who follows the news…

The good news is that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to provide officers with body cameras over the next few months.  The bad news is that agency officials don’t sound enthusiastic about actually releasing…

One of the federal government’s great achievements this century was making health insurance affordable to millions more Americans.  In 2010, nearly 18 percent of people under 65 lacked insurance. By 2024, the rate had fallen…

Parents are all too familiar with the ongoing battle to get their kids to eat a vegetable or two. This summer, they’ve been fighting it themselves. Just weeks ago, every bite of greens came with…

Allen County commissioners say they have until Tuesday to decide whether to put on the Nov. 3 general election ballot a measure to raise the county sales tax by a half cent, going from 1.25%…