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DR. KAREN L. BLACK I’m torn between two topics today. One is the apparent inability of today’s Republican Party to formulate policy or do anything much besides fling at liberals crazy accusations of impossible horrors. But I’ll set that aside for now to deal with the column of the dreadful Star Parker on Planned Parenthood’s founder Margaret Sanger and her espousal of sterilization of the “unfit” as a means of solving society’s problems (April 23). First: It’s true. This was a theory current in the 1920s and ’30s among some sociologists. Incidentally, the Nazis in Germany t...

Doug Neckers Thirty or so years ago, soon after my wife Sue and I first joined Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Toledo, we met a young priest then serving as assistant rector, her first calling out of seminary. Today, that priest, the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, is the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C., the first woman in history to lead that diocese, the one that, more than any other, is in the public eye. Though Americans mostly know her as the leader appearing from the pulpit at the National Cathedral speaking in times of national crisis, or the funerals of important persons, he...

PAUL F. deLESPINASSE Rick Perry, formerly Texas governor and head of the federal Energy Department, blames recent Texas power outages on increased use of wind and solar power there: “If wind and solar is where we’re headed, the last 48 hours ought to give everybody a real pause. … We need to have a baseload. And the only way you can get a baseload in this country is (with) natural gas, coal, and nuclear.” Perry could not be more wrong. Green energy is the solution, not the problem. These comments are in response to the Editor’s corner “Winds of change coming for grid” that was ...

Recently, we saw in Texas what happens when the electric grid breaks down—chaos, confusion and human suffering. There is a lot of “finger-pointing” going

Johnny Kampis As government officials discuss the affordability of broadband, some regulators are helping contribute to the problem by implementing sky-high pole attachment fees, the cost of which tend to be passed onto the end consumer. What are pole attachment fees? When an internet provider wants to access a pole owned by someone else – such as AT&T wanting to put its equipment on a pole owned by the local power provider – it has to pay a fee to gain that access. This has been standard operating procedure for many years. A recent piece in the New Yorker discussing how the Biden adminis...