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Thanks to congressional inaction, schools will stop serving free lunch to all students | Opinion
By: Capital-Star Guest Contributor - March 18, 2022
The pandemic fix was left out of a new federal spending package, potentially impacting millions of students.
Putin’s brazen manipulation of language is a perfect example of Orwellian doublespeak | Opinion
By: Capital-Star Guest Contributor - March 17, 2022
Orwell used '1984' to explore what happens when communication conforms to the desires of political power instead of demonstrable fact.
Early childhood education is life-changing. We need to support those who teach it | Opinion
By: Capital-Star Guest Contributor - March 17, 2022
The Legislature also needs to significantly increase investments in early childhood programs for children from birth to five.
Decades later, FDR’s ‘four freedoms’ are on the line in Ukraine. They must be defended | Opinion
By: Capital-Star Guest Contributor - March 16, 2022
The world is united for democracy and for calling out ego-driven autocrats and their lies.
To build a better America, ensure everyone who needs health care can get it | Opinion
By: Capital-Star Guest Contributor - March 15, 2022
Americans should have access to the care they need no matter where they live, what they look like or how much they make.
The trial is done. What’s next for school funding in Pennsylvania? | Opinion
By: Capital-Star Guest Contributor - March 15, 2022
All it takes to bring Democrats and Republicans together, apparently, are rules of evidence, billions of dollars, and the need to impress Pa.’s families and students.
What’s going on with oil prices? It’s more complicated than you think | Opinion
By: Capital-Star Guest Contributor - March 14, 2022
Price shocks aren’t new. Viewed historically, they are an integral part of oil market dynamics, not anomalies.
This week is Sunshine Week. Here’s how you can shine the light on government | Opinion
By: Capital-Star Guest Contributor - March 14, 2022
This Sunshine Week, perhaps more than any other, highlights the necessity of accountability in government at every level.
Reparations are possible — they happened for Asian Americans | Opinion
By: Capital-Star Guest Contributor - March 13, 2022
I’m sharing my grandmother’s map of a history that I couldn’t see, with the optimism that we can follow it toward a more just future for all.
The GOP is the gallows party
By: Capital-Star Guest Contributor - March 11, 2022
The longer violent rhetoric is allowed to persist the more actual violence is likely to occur.
Putin’s war in Ukraine is a reminder: Maybe we’re not as divided as we think | Rob Schofield
By: Capital-Star Guest Contributor - March 11, 2022
The world looks on anxiously to see if our national light bulb clicks on.
Back to normal? Nothing ever stays the same. We should accept that | Jonathan C. Rothermel
By: Capital-Star Guest Contributor - March 10, 2022
It is time for us to move on because we clearly have work to do.