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This editorial was written by the Seattle Times Editorial Board. What happens when you put three Democrats and three Republicans in a room? Nothing. They might shout and grandstand, but the odds are small that there’ll be substantive progress on important issues or, in the case of the Federal Election Commission, enforcement of the nation’s election laws. Congress might not be able to mend the bitter partisanship that rends the nation, but it at least could fix this important agency. The FEC is the referee for national elections. When a candidate for president or Congress breaks cam...

This editorial was written by the Editorial Board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. His Royal Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, has died, after a long and fruitful life extraordinarily well lived. He was 99, two months from his 100th birthday. He leaves his queen, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, age 94, to soldier on alone. The death of a prince, who truly was princely in character, leaves the world a little darker and a lot less noble. His life cheered and inspired with the character, as much as the titles, of nobility. And what is the character of nobility? One definition is: selfle...

The pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus continues to be a threat, one year after arriving in the four-county GLOW region.

Given the economic downturn resulting from the novel coronavirus pandemic, the trend for many counties last year was a loss of sales taxes. State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli released a report Feb. 2 showing how the health care crisis affected different areas. It showed that 27 of the 57 counties outside New York City had less sales tax revenue in 2020 than they did in 2019. “This report shows how deeply the [coronavirus] pandemic cut into municipal finances,” DiNapoli said in a news release that accompanied the report. “Local governments depend heavily on sales taxes as a ma...

New York state Attorney General Letitia James is riding a winning streak.