Articles filed under Commentary
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Gear up for key decisions about your town, schoolsFeb 08, 2011 11:00 pm - In a very real sense, democracy is a 24/7/365 enterprise. We may vote only once or twice a year, but knowing how to vote — that is, whom we want to vote for — requires s...
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A liberating scene?Feb 08, 2011 11:00 pm - I had never seen anything like it. I sat in the movie theater holding my breath as Marlon Brando wielded the stick of butter. For the sake of families who might be readi...
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Education reform being left behindFeb 08, 2011 11:00 pm - Arne Duncan needs a recess. Once a bright star in the Cabinet, the secretary of education has lost his message and his mojo. Now he could lose his reputation as an educa...
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Birthing pains of democracy in the Middle EastFeb 07, 2011 11:00 pm - Every once in a while, I resurrect my Oveta Culp Hobby Award. Hobby was the Texas newspaper publisher who became Dwight D. Eisenhower's secretary of health, education an...
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Chicken Little and the U.S. debt ceilingFeb 07, 2011 11:00 pm - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke seemed to be channeling Chicken Little when he warned congressional Republicans that any delay in raising the debt ceiling beyond t...
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Holding ax, spoiling for a fight in OhioFeb 06, 2011 11:00 pm - COLUMBUS, Ohio — In 1997, when Republicans controlled the U.S. House of Representatives and John Kasich chaired the Budget Committee, he set his sights on the GOP's 2000...
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Watching Egypt through a lens darklyFeb 06, 2011 11:00 pm - The turmoil in Egypt has been a lesson in the fragility of a right we so often take for granted: to speak. It also has been a reminder to those who deride the “lamestre...
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2012 may see 'favorite son' strategy returnFeb 06, 2011 10:00 pm - When the National Governors Association holds its winter meeting here starting on Feb. 26, I expect to see some initial steps in the 2012 presidential campaign. That thr...
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Praying to fill the gapsFeb 05, 2011 11:00 pm - I was talking to a friend who was recently diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma — a young guy (by my lights), in his early 40s, if that; a jock, former varsity athlete,...
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Toward a soft landing in EgyptFeb 05, 2011 11:00 pm - Who doesn't love a democratic revolution? Who is not moved by the renunciation of fear and the reclamation of dignity in the streets of Cairo and Alexandria? The worldw...