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Letter: Better Trump than loonies

For literally hundreds of reasons, I hope and pray that President Trump is re-elected in 2020. Just the entertainment value alone of seeing the renewed agony on the faces of all the left-wing loonies in Hollywood would be priceless.
 

 

Saunders: Harry Reid calls Trump ‘amoral,’ and he should know

The gift that keeps on giving for President Donald Trump is that his fiercest critics on the left are no paragons of virtue.
During an interview with Nevada Public Radio on Thursday, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Trump “amoral,” proposed that newly minted Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, would make a “great foil against Trump” and said that Romney should run against Trump in 2020.
It was an odd turnabout from the son of Searchlight, Nevada.

 

Brunell: East Coast seaports up capabilities

While many eyes are on trade talks between our country and China, America’s port leaders are positioning their seaports to compete for increasing volumes of container traffic.
After container shipments surged in November — primarily from pre-tariff contracts — they plunged by year end, an impact of U.S. and China trade war.
Outbound container volume at the neighboring ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach fell 11.8 percent in November from the same month in 2017. It was a decline after seven straight months of export growth.

 

In Our View: Change Ahead for Gas Tax

Sooner or later, the state and federal governments will need to adjust how they collect money to pay for new roads and for road maintenance. More efficient vehicles and an increase of hybrid and electric vehicles are slowly rendering pay-at-the-pump taxes obsolete.
And while the public is somewhat suspicious when lawmakers start talking about taxes, there is at least one selling point any eventual change: How would you like it if gas prices dropped 49.4 cents per gallon? How about 67.8 cents per gallon?

 

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