Articles filed under Opinion
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Is flare of anger enough to lose an endorsement?Mar 10, 2013 4:00 am - With our local elections just a month away, I thought it might be instructional to tell you some of the back story in just one of the more than 150 endorsement interview...
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Where our government’s money goesMar 10, 2013 4:00 am - Over the last few weeks, as the deadline for the congressionally mandated budget cuts known as the “sequester” came and went, we got a taste of how difficult cutting fed...
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Some taxes up, and the sky’s still thereMar 10, 2013 4:00 am - “Most of the media is so sold out to Obama that they’re missing the obvious,” Jim DeMint said on Fox News. “The policies the president has in place, especially the tax i...
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Budget solution is hiding in the CaymansMar 08, 2013 4:00 am - The budget fights in both Washington, D.C. and Springfield are looking predictably ugly this year, and they are shaping up along familiar lines: Do we raise taxes? Do we...
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A man who stood for the human raceMar 07, 2013 4:00 am - Out of Mississippi, a milestone in the AIDS pandemic, or at least proof of concept: If you treat an infant early enough — in this case, within 30 hours of infection — it...
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Endorsements built on sincerity, care for suburbsMar 07, 2013 4:00 am - On Sunday, we launched into a three-week period of election endorsements with an explanation of why we do them. Today, I want to give you a little closer look at how the...
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Killing the messenger as a tacticMar 06, 2013 4:00 pm - To the world beyond the Beltway, it might not mean much that Bob Woodward of the famed Watergate duo went public with his recent White House run-in. This would be an ov...
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A reporter's remembrance: Straight shooter Netsch will be missedMar 06, 2013 8:00 am - I had the pleasure of covering Democrat Dawn Clark Netsch of Chicago when she was a state senator, a comptroller and the state's first woman major-party nominee for gove...
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Water cooler springs innovationMar 06, 2013 4:00 am - We can assume that the data-driven Marissa Mayer studied the data and algorithmed everything in sight — before deciding that Yahoo employees would henceforth cease telec...
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Obama’s adrift on a red-ink seaMar 05, 2013 4:00 am - One revealing stress test of a political viewpoint is the way it deals with facts that are large, consequential and ideologically inconvenient. For conservatives, the ch...