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FILE - President Joe Biden talks with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as he departs the Capitol following the annual St. Patrick's Day gathering, in Washington, March 17, 2023. There are stark differences in how President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy want to shore up the government's finances. The Democratic president primarily wants higher taxes on the wealthy to lower deficits; the GOP congressional leader favors sharp spending cuts. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘President Biden has refused to talk to Republican McCarthy … Talk about a lack of leadership’

May 2, 2023 at 4:19 p.m.

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File - Fuel is pumped into a vehicle at a gas station in Mundelein, Ill., Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘If the cost of avoiding another term by disgusting, disastrous Donald is higher gas prices, sign me up’

May 2, 2023 at 4:00 p.m.

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A woman ties balloons to a cross in a makeshift memorial in the parking lot of a Walmart in Chesapeake, Va., Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, for the six people killed at this Walmart when a manager opened fire with a handgun before an employee meeting last week. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘If someone wants to kill, they’ll figure out a way to kill in mass quantities’

May 2, 2023 at 3:45 p.m.

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President Joe Biden puts on sunglasses as he makes a joke about becoming the "Dark Brandon" persona during the White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, Saturday, April 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘This corrupt tyrant is ruling with illegal executive orders which are ruining our country’

May 1, 2023 at 9:25 a.m.

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Former President Donald Trump arrives at court, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘Hopefully, the former president will be convicted … and he will not be able to run for president again’

May 1, 2023 at 9:03 a.m.

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Letter to the Editor

April 26, 2023 at 9:00 a.m.

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FILE - Tucker Carlson, former host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio on March 2, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘Tucker Carlson … was the one guy that told the truth’

April 24, 2023 at 11:35 a.m.

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FILE - Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, poses with books that have been the subject of complaints from parents on Dec. 16, 2021, in Salt Lake City. With legislators in Florida barring even the mention of being gay in classrooms and similar restrictions being considered in other states, books with LGBTQ+ themes remain the most likely targets of bans or attempted bans at public schools and libraries around the country, according to a new report Monday, April 24, 2023. Maia Kobabe's graphic memoir "Gender Queer," was the most "challenged" book of 2022, the second consecutive year it has topped the list. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘It doesn’t bother you that they put these trashy books in the libraries for little kids to read?’

April 24, 2023 at 11:15 a.m.

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FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump, left, and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, right, with moderator Chris Wallace, center, of Fox News during the first presidential debate at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘Good grief, we need to put these two in the history books and move on’

April 24, 2023 at 10:56 a.m.

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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive at Fort Lesley J. McNair from Camp David, Sunday, April 23, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Talk of the County reader opinion: ‘(Biden’s) trying to do his best, but he’s fighting uphill all the time’

April 24, 2023 at 10:17 a.m.

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