Last month, Clinton Board of Education members approved a plan to provide students with safer schools, updated facilities, and more academic offerings. As I’ve visited with citizens throughout Clinton, I’m inspired by their excitement about this opportunity – to invest in our stu dents, community, and future.
One of the most contentious claims Donald Trump ever made was his insistence that he had been the target of spying. He made the charge in several different ways. For example, in March 2017, Trump, just two months in office, tweeted: "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!" Two years later, in April 2019, he was less specific but equally adamant when he said, "There was absolutely spying into my campaign." In August 2020, during his Republican National Committee acceptance speech, he said, "Remember this: They spied on my campaign."
As I write, the recently inaugurated Republican governor of Virginia is engaged in a Twitter war with a mouthy high school kid.
This much is certain: America’s political parties are in transition. What is uncertain is what they are evolving into, and whether the changes now underway are provisional or permanent.
Who are the real conservatives in the Republican Party? Certainly not Donald Trump and his tribe of true believers.
We hope Clinton Daily News readers have enjoyed this week’s series on the women who are charged with administering and seeking justice at the Custer County Courthouse.
There is a wrenching debate going on inside the Republican Party over the simplest of questions: Should the party look backward or forward? Just because a question is simple does not mean the answer is easy, and indeed, as the 2022 and 2024 elections approach, the backward-orforward question is extraordinarily difficult for the GOP.
I'm so old I can remember when people calling themselves "conservative" thought "cancel culture" was a bad thing. Oh wait, that was last week. More recently, the brand-new governor of Virginia – whose own son is safely ensconced in an exclusive Maryland prep school – has opened a telephone snitch line enabling citizens to inform on teachers committing "Thought- crime" in the Commonwealth's public schools.
This is our winter of discontent. Again.
Dear Doctors: My husband's office went remote during the pandemic. He used to ride his bike to work and walk at lunch. Now, he's at his desk from when he gets up until bedtime. I read that working long work hours can give you high blood pressure. If that's true, maybe he'll slow down.