For many years, local public health agencies were viewed by many Americans as centers for anti-smoking campaigns, immunizations for children in low-income families, enforcers of restaurant cleanliness rules and similar activities. Suddenly last winter, all that changed. Now and probably for ...

Our society has long had a need for legal reform to limit lawsuits and the ridiculous awards of some juries. There is a fundamentally flawed mindset driving civil law, namely that everything is someone else’s fault. The resulting worries about liability drive up the price of everything, ...

President Donald Trump is being accused by some of withholding funds available to the U.S. Postal Service, allegedly in order to limit the agency’s ability to handle tens of millions of mailed-in ballots for the Nov. 3 election. If indeed anyone is failing to use resources available to the ...

Violence raged again over the weekend in major American cities. Among the numbers: 18 people were shot in Cincinnati, 4 killed; 50 shot in New York, 7 killed; 30 were shot in Chicago, 3 killed. From May to June, homicides in 20 major U.S. cities increased by 37%, led by Chicago, Philadelphia ...

We have, in general, given the benefit of the doubt to those who are siding with caution in the battle against COVID-19. Health experts and political leaders, such as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are doing the best they can to weather the storm. We believe they are acting with ...

Churches’ rights denied If you hold a mass protest in Minnesota, and even throw in a little arson and looting, the authorities will stand aside and never speak once about limiting gatherings to 10 or fewer people because of COVID-19. But if you wish to exercise your constitutionally ...