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Pence should be proud

If former Vice President Mike Pence is ever in need of a character witness, he could not do much better than one statement former President Donald Trump made to him. In his new book “So Help Me God,” Pence quotes Trump as pressuring him to overturn the results of the 2020 election by ...

All through the night — remembering radio host Bohannon

A great voice is stilled. James “Jimbo” Bohannon died of cancer of the esophagus on Nov. 12. Only weeks earlier, he had to resign from his “Jim Bohannon Show,” the overnight broadcast that aired on 500 radio stations, largely AM, weeknights from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. ET. Jim was a big man ...

How a federal agency put New Englanders in danger

During the extremely cold winter of 2017-18, New England came within two days of rolling blackouts. Natural gas supplies were so constrained that officials with the region’s electric grid operator, ISO New England, said later they’d prepared to cut electricity generation so people would ...

Separating the truth from lemons is the American way

In the aftermath of another turbulent election season, maybe it’s time for politicians, regulatory agencies and the media to return to something that feels almost quaint: the truth. During World War II, the “Superman” radio show writers coined the phrase “Truth, Justice and the American ...

Health care 2023: Be proactive, focus on daily health

As we start to emerge from the dark COVID cloud, there were some rays of sunshine in terms of the progress that healthcare made in 2022. Congress acted in a bipartisan manner to fund research and vaccines and, oddly enough, spent little energy arguing about whether people deserved healthcare ...

Let’s get real on Iran

It feels like Yogi Berra’s déjà vu all over again. A populist protest on the streets of Iran — channeling Iranians’ hopes for democratic freedom and a joining of the modern world — is put down violently by Iran’s brutal theocrats who deface Islam by using our faith as a perverted ...