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Last November, I predicted that by year two of his regime Trump would begin agitating for an illegal third term. That took him less than 100 days. I also opined that, if he got a third term, he would campaign for a dynastic clause changing the Constitution to allow him to name one of his sons ...

CIP is right to examine vaccines

DEAR EDITOR: On June 26, The Vindicator ran an article about the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices known as ACIP. ACIP advises the CDC on the vaccines children and adults should take and when. Recently, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of the committee ...

What I fear Trump will do with his war

One of my goals in writing this column is to alert you to dangers to our democracy so you can alert others, who then alert others, and by this means we enlarge and strengthen our bulwark against the tide of fascism. Wars pose particular challenges to democracy because nations at war often ...

Do you feel duped yet? You should

DEAR EDITOR: Donald Trump has spent a lifetime using people until he gets what he wants from them, then he cast them aside, like so much garbage. As I write the Republican-dominated Senate is trying to reconcile and then pass Trump‘s Big Beautiful Bill. With this,Trump and his legislative ...

Stop the stall on marijuana policies in Ohio

Over the years, our elected state lawmakers in the Ohio House of Representatives and the state Senate have mustered up some mighty sharp skills in the game of kick the can down the road. From water quality initiatives to firm decision-making on capital punishment, the Ohio General Assembly ...

Mamdani probably won’t be mayor

Zohran Mamdani seemed to hit the political jackpot in besting former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary. Hyper commentary now portrays this once obscure state assemblyman from Queens as a political meteor. The thing about meteors is that they burn ...