Opinion Columns
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The progression of fiscal painFeb 26, 2011 11:00 pm - In readjusting the size and role of government, there is a natural progression of pain. Cuts tend to begin with the poor and vulnerable, who have limited political clout...
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Give Gadhafi a real messageFeb 26, 2011 10:00 pm - President Obama pledged that “the entire world is watching” the horror in Libya, but watching isn't nearly enough. There is much more that world leaders — beginning with...
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Where are the Latino journalists going?Feb 23, 2011 11:00 pm - Americans count on the media to tell us — as Walter Cronkite used to say — “the way it is.” But how can media companies do that effectively when their staffs look more l...
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A mother’s search for meaningFeb 23, 2011 11:00 pm - There has been a whole spate of memoirs lately by young mothers searching for meaning. They go off looking for happiness in yoga and personal trainers and spiritual guru...
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Attention!!! An election is coming up soonFeb 23, 2011 11:00 pm - Someone around here (OK, it might be me) often opines that except for the people directly involved, no one pays attention to local elections until about a week before th...
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Consumed by fat pensionsFeb 22, 2011 11:00 pm - In New York City, the No. 2 guy in the fire department retired on a pension worth $242,000 a year. In New York state, a single official holding two jobs and one pension ...
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Coolidge-Reagan-Walker?Feb 22, 2011 11:00 pm - When three-fourths of the Boston police department went on strike in 1919, leading to broken shop windows and looting, then-Massachusetts Gov. Calvin Coolidge called out...
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In the center of the stormFeb 22, 2011 11:00 pm - By George Will MADISON, Wis. — Hitherto, when this university town and seat of state government applauded itself as “the Athens of the Midwest,” the sobriquet suggested ...
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Federal policies skew house values everywhereFeb 22, 2011 11:00 pm - Not Seattle! Home prices in the “Queen City” of the Northwest were not supposed to go south. This isn’t Miami, Phoenix or Las Vegas, where sun-tanned speculators built b...
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Who the intellectual front-runners areFeb 20, 2011 11:00 pm - President Obama's 2012 budget is the numerical embodiment of his State of the Union address — both being systematic distractions from the main, current tasks of governin...