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Opinion

Why standing up against Trump is good for business

Columns

Today I want to assess last week’s No Kings protests in the context of American capitalism. Standing up against Trump is not only important politically and morally. It’s also profitable. Diversity, for example, is good for business. CEOs that have scaled back their companies’ ...

Dear Annie: Distance and red flags

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Dear Annie: My younger sister and I used to be incredibly close. We talked every day, shared everything and supported each other through some of the hardest times in our lives, including the loss of our mom. But over the past two years, she has pulled away, and I feel like I do not even know ...

How to follow the recommended daily protein allowance

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DEAR DR. ROACH: What is the recommended daily protein allowance for older adults? I am in my 70s. — P.R. ANSWER: The best studies recommend 1-1.2 grams of protein daily per kilogram of body weight, so if you weighed 75 kilograms (177 pounds), you should be getting 75-85 grams of protein. ...

Biden hindsight

Letters to the editor

Jim Newton Itasca My friends who voted for former President Joe Biden are frustratingly stuck between his presidential accomplishments, his shoot-himself-in-foot moments since leaving office and his recent cancer diagnosis. Biden’s administration gave us the CHIPS Act to bolster’s ...

Trump, war and the Constitution

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Has the United States become what President Donald Trump recently condemned? Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged? These questions should be central to a ...

Give us your young and aspiring

Letters to the editor

Tim Cowan Julian Students with disparate backgrounds, cultures and interpretations of our shared Earth, it will be your conversations, friendships and conflicts that set the stage for a more inclusive future. It will be the ways that you influence the developing views of the world community ...