Fair Tax plan fuels House debate and fiscal clashes
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch notes lawmakers discuss the Fair Tax Act to replace all federal taxes with a national sales tax. Critics warn of steep effective rates, ignores poverty impacts, and predicts the plan will fail despite a potential House vote. It highlights Kevin McCarthy's need to appease a hard right caucus and questions future deals.
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Kevin McCarthy
St. Louis
Exxon
Amazon
Treasury
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Wall Street Journal
McCarthy
Readers urged to share thoughts with the Gazette
The Gazette invites letters to the editor, noting they may edit for brevity and clarity. Authors should keep submissions under 250 words, with longer letters potentially shortened to fit the limit.
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the Gazette
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Medina
Firelands hosts first diversity and inclusion panel
Firelands Schools held its first panel on diversity and inclusion drawing about 50 adults. Tony Caldwell and Fred Williams, Firelands High alums and football players, organized the event after a party incident involving Black teammates. Superintendent Von Gunten spoke of safety and belonging while highlighting a new scholarship for essays on inclusion.
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Firelands Schools
Tony Caldwell
Fred Williams
Firelands High School
Lorain County Sheriff's
Firelands
Vermilion
Lorain County
Caldwell
Williams
Mike von Gunten
von Gunten
Netanyahu era fuels danger to Israeli democracy and peace
Trudy Rubin argues the new Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu embeds far right and religious hardliners like Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich in key posts. She warns this coalition undercuts the judiciary, risks annexing the West Bank, and may provoke a new Palestinian uprising while threatening Gaza and Al Aqsa. The piece reflects on Rabin era limits of a two state solution and the risks of a one state outcome.
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Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu
State of Israel
Israel
Middle East
Bibi
Knesset
Supreme Court
West Bank
Yitzhak Rabin
Rabin
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
Yasser Arafat
White House
Gaza
Ehud Barak
Fatah Hawks
Arafat
Hamas
Al-Aqsa Mosque
Jerusalem
Ben-Gvir
U.S
Al-Aqsa
Ben- Gvir
Bezalel Smotrich
Religious Zionism Party
Smotrich
Netanyahu
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Philadelphia Inquirer
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