Articles filed under Commentary
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Shattering voter stereotypesFeb 26, 2011 11:00 pm - Editor’s note: Today we add Esther J. Cepeda to the Daily Herald’s lineup of syndicated columnists. Cepeda writes about about education, politics, health, business and c...
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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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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...
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The Republican strategy over principleFeb 20, 2011 11:00 pm - Speaker of the House John Boehner didn't know it, but for two years he was in heaven. From 2008 to 2010, Boehner's job as minority leader was to keep the House Repub...