Around financial markets, the conventional wisdom is to “let the trend be your friend.” What happens in the market on one day will also likely occur on the following. Investors, the …
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By Joe Guzzardi, Guest Columnist
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1/31/24
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The other day, I was walking through the bookstore and ended up in the sports section. Perusing the football biographies but deftly avoiding anything that shouted “Eagles” because …
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By Christine Flowers, Guest Columnist
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2/8/24
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Many Americans are still experiencing the sticker shock they first faced two years ago when inflation hit its peak. But if inflation is down now, why are families still feeling the pinch? The …
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By Lindsay Owens and Elizabeth Pancotti, Guest Columnists
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2/8/24
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This plot line could have come from one of Charles Dickens’ novels about upper-class depravity: “Miserly governors refuse to provide gruel for poverty-stricken ragamuffins.” …
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By Jim Hightower, Guest Columnist
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2/15/24
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A little over a year ago, the College Board unveiled its long-awaited draft AP African American Studies curriculum. What happened next was sad — and all too predictable. Florida officials, …
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By Svante Myrick, Guest Columnist
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2/15/24
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Pharmaceutical companies are angry with Bernie Sanders. The Vermont senator has vowed to force pharma CEOs to publicly answer for why their drug prices are so much higher in the United States than in …
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By Sonali Kolhatkar, Guest Columnist
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2/22/24
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This past November, I was honored to be sworn in as a Councilman in Lago Vista after a decade of serving as a staffer in the Texas Legislature. Perhaps few know how much legislative staffers get to …
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By Shane R. Saum, Guest Columnist
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2/22/24
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Seriously folks. Maybe we Republicans better stop banging on Old Joe Biden for the serious cognitive issues he obviously has. Unless we hold the players on our own team responsible for their …
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By Michael Reagan, Guest Columnist
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9/7/23
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A federal judge in Texas ruled last week that insurers no longer have to cover some preventive services that have long been included under the Affordable Care Act. It’s a frustrating decision that …
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By Lisa Jarvis, Guest Columnist
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4/5/23
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Last month, school officials in St. Petersburg, Florida, told teachers to stop showing students a Disney movie about Ruby Bridges, the 6-year-old Black girl who integrated an all-white New Orleans …
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By Robin Abcarian, Guest Columnist
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4/5/23
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The Daily Wire’s Candace Owens recently made comments that led me to believe that she either doesn’t understand why disability representation is important or that she would like America to …
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By Melissa Ortiz, Guest Columnist
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4/12/23
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I will qualify for Medicare coverage in five years and, much to my surprise, I can’t wait to get government health coverage — because my current coverage is pricey.I recently finished a …
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By Tom Purcell, Guest Columnist
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4/12/23
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Generation Z seems like a paradox: far more open to diverse viewpoints and compromise than older Americans, but also in some ways more dogmatic.Will young people extinguish the flames of political …
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By Jean Guerrero, Guest Columnist
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4/19/23
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Voters within the boundaries of Leander ISD have been asked to support a $762 million bond package on election day May 6.It is certainly a heavy lift for a community in a time of dramatic change, but …
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By Mike Eddleman, Guest Columnist
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4/19/23
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Roman Welzant, who claimed to have been tormented for years by neighborhood teenagers, shot two of them one winter night in 1980 as they threw snowballs at his house in Eastwood, just over the city …
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By Dan Rodricks, Guest Columnist
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4/26/23
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When it comes to criticizing the powerful or politically connected, the First Amendment protects the little guy. No matter who you are or how much money you have in the bank, you have the right to …
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By Will Creeley, Guest Columnist
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4/25/23
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A Texas "gun enthusiast," Francisco Oropeza, 39, was firing off his AR15 in his yard Friday night about 40 miles from Houston. He was known to be touchy, so, despite the noise and danger, no one …
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By Tom H. Hastings, Guest Columnist
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5/10/23
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I was only 10 years old the first time I went to the hospital with severe head pain, uncontrollable vomiting, and visual disturbances with complete blindness in my left eye. Driving four hours to …
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By J.P. Summers, Guest Columnist
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5/9/23
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Pronouns came up in conversation recently. Through circumstances largely beyond my control, I was at dinner a few nights ago with six or seven strangers. It wasn’t hard to read the room. They were …
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By John M. Crisp, Guest Columnist
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5/11/23
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As Mother’s Day approaches, it is appropriate that we discuss the physical characteristics, personality traits, coping mechanisms, etiquette rules, life ambitions, etcetera that we inherited from …
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By Danny Tyree, Guest Columnist
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5/10/23
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