Letters for Wednesday, August 20, 2025
We must act to stop assault on democracy
This week more than ever seems to be a make-or-break moment.
We just can’t sit back and watch Trump overturn our democracy in front of our eyes.
Some say it’s to deflect our attention from the Epstein Files. But no matter the underlying reason, the consequences are devastating.
Congress has approved Trump’s $1.1 billion in cuts to PBS and NPR. These networks serve the people, not the president.
They have consistently delivered free local news and quality programing without any corporate or political agendas, as the law requires them to be objective.
Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he accused her of “rigging” the data which showed the steepest slowdown of U.S. job growth since the pandemic. Our BLS was the........
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