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Republican Sens. Bob Corker (left) and Lamar Alexander, both of Tennessee, leave a news conference Dec. 28, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington where they discuss the fiscal cliff. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Songwriter Equity Act inequity

Congress has had a loud voice in setting the price of music since it first got involved with the tinkling player piano, once a fixture of American life from cultivated front parlors to the raucous saloons of the Old West, in 1909.

June 6, 2014
The president of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi listens to questions during a news conference in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, June 5, 2014. The European Central Bank has cut two key interest rates, one of them into negative territory — a highly unusual step that underlines the urgency of its efforts to keep the eurozone economy from sliding into crippling deflation. It reduced its main interest rate, the refinancing rate, from a record low of 0.25 percent to 0.15 percent. More drastically, it also cut the rate it pays on money deposited by banks from zero to minus 0.1 percent, an unprecedented step for the ECB that aims to push banks to lend money rather than hoard it. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

EDITORIAL: Europe goes negative on interest rates

Europe's economic policies have often seemed a bit daft to us, setting the Continent on a course to bankruptcy. Things got stranger still last week when the European Central Bank turned the entire concept of interest rates on its head.

June 6, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Outlaw ‘killer’ cars?

A nut with a gun or a knife could cause a problem with a population of 300 million people --- and immediately numerous people would rush to call for outlawing and melting down the steel from all guns and knives.

June 6, 2014
FILE. In this Sept. 11, 2013 file photo, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, left, and Bill de Blasio, who was later elected to succeed Bloomberg, attend a 9/11 Memorial ceremony marking the 12th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. When Michael Bloomberg became New York City’s mayor 12 years ago, he was a political neophyte faced with the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Now, as he prepares to leave office at month’s end, he has dramatically reshaped the city.(AP Photo/Adrees Latif, Pool, File)

EDITORIAL: Sodas, cigarettes and the Nanny State

Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, is all but forgotten, but he's not gone, exactly. Like a New York Yankee who swings for the fences and misses on the first two pitches, His Former Honor took his Big Gulp ban to the state's highest court Wednesday, hoping to avoid a strikeout.

June 5, 2014
** FILE ** Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy holds up a pen before signing new emission guidelines during an announcement of a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, Monday, June 2, 2014, at EPA headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

EDITORIAL: The EPA’s bumbling regulators

President Obama's latest scheme to send American coal workers to the unemployment lines represents an enormous expansion of the power of the Environmental Protection Agency. The federal environmental bureaucracy can't even manage the power that it has.

June 5, 2014