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Police failed troubled woman in Ky.

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On March 27, the Louisville Metro Police Department in Louisville, Kentucky, responded to a 911 call requesting help for someone experiencing a mental health emergency. When police arrived, Katelyn Hall had locked herself in the bathroom with the intention of harming herself. At last week’s Bishop’s Table — a weekly community forum — I listened to Katelyn’s mother, Rebecca, recount what happened that night. Rebecca is grieving now because what began as a call for help ended with Katelyn losing her life. LMPD shot and killed Katelyn when she came out of the bathroom holding a ...

Democratic Party is dead, long live the Jacobins!

Editorials

For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party were predictable. They professed concern for working Americans and supported blue-collar unions. Unemployment insurance, a 40-hour work week, disability insurance and Social Security were their trademarks — often rapidly achieved by growing government bureaucracies and continually raising taxes. Still, many Democrats were socially conservative. By the 1970s, Democrats still deplored antisemitism. Party officials had rejected their own segregationists to champion civil rights. Presidents like Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman ...

Editorials

The British election should serve as a warning to Democrats who let their left fringe run riot with scant criticism. Too many Democratic strategists and friends in the progressive media read the noise coming from the far left as evidence of broader public opinion than warranted, even among Democrats. Then come voting day, turned-off moderates make them lose. Britain’s voters just battered the Labour Party over what many perceived as social disorder amid uncontrolled immigration. Many were incensed by the influx of migrants from Muslim-majority countries, some prone to crime and ...

Letters to the editor

Letters to the Editor

What are the facts on city officials’ raises? DEAR EDITOR: As a Warren taxpayer, I am outraged that City Auditor Vince Flask refuses to provide a simple, total dollar amount for what the recent pay raises for elected and appointed officials are costing us. On May 8, I requested a spreadsheet — formatted exactly like the one his office already gave council — showing each official’s raises from 2023 through 2025. Instead of answering a straightforward question, Auditor Flask hid behind technicalities, claiming that the spreadsheet was merely “illustrative” and that my ...

When the pope isn’t right

Editorials

It must be the highlight for any Roman Catholic to meet the head of his church. So it must have been last week for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a practicing Catholic. Rubio was on more than a spiritual journey. His mission was to persuade Pope Leo XIV of the rightness, even the righteousness, of the Trump administration’s actions to destroy Iran’s goal of acquiring a nuclear weapon and likely using it as a means of intimidation, or possibly launching it as a weapon of war. The Pope is committed to resolving disputes through diplomacy. That course would be worth pursuing if ...

Orchids & onions

Editorials

ORCHID: To U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., for his aggressive campaign to recharge the U.S. electric-vehicle industry. Khanna recently toured the Ultium Cells EV-battery production plant in Lordstown and called it “impressive.” In the U.S. Congress, he has been a leading advocate for reinvesting in the industry with a focus on jump-starting domestic manufacturing and ensuring labor protection. He is working to block Chinese battery companies from receiving U.S. production incentives and has emphasized the need for American-made, non-foreign-licensed battery production. Given the ...