Commentary

Gaines: You can make a difference by volunteering for a local board or committee

Realigning the main drag through Sterling left a couple parcels of land orphaned.  It wasn’t necessarily that they looked worse than they did before — one of them was a former trailer park where the only vestiges of its former life were bare concrete pads with socketless meter boxes poking up here and there.  The highway realignment didn’t make them ugly, it made them uglier:  it left a bit of land whose shape wouldn’t be too conducive to anything useful.  Yet another empty patch of dirt on my daily commute.

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McMeekin: Trump should immediately stop federal agencies from hiding documents by needlessly marking them classified

Files should be open to the public unless otherwise specified, not secret by default. We the people have a right to know what our government does in our name, and to know our own history.

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