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Mass Transit Is For The Young

Arnold Hamilton - February 25, 2014 0

BY FROMA HARROP I frequently ride one of those cheap buses connecting my small city with a big city. At first, I expected my fellow passengers to be largely poor and old – the folks who can’t afford to drive or are unable to. I was wrong, wrong, wrong. Most are able-bodied, youngish adults taking […]

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Jim Crow Dressed In His Sunday Best

Arnold Hamilton - February 25, 2014 0

BY JAMES NIMMO At least a dozen state legislatures across the country are trying to put some new clothes on a discredited character from America's...

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Taking Back Our Schools

Arnold Hamilton - February 24, 2014 5

BY SHARON MARTIN The year before I retired, my superintendent moved me into a fourth-grade classroom. After years of teaching middle school and high school,...

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The Cruel And Shameless Ideology Of Corporatism

Arnold Hamilton - February 21, 2014 0

BY RALPH NADER Like ravenous beasts of prey attacking a weakened antelope, the forces of subsidized capital and their mercenaries sunk their fangs into the...

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I’m Not Watching The Olympics

Arnold Hamilton - February 21, 2014 1

BY SUSAN ESTRICH This is not exactly a newsflash in my house, where, before he left for college, my son had to teach me how to turn on the TV. The thing is, I really don’t want to watch the Olympics, even though I spent many of my happier childhood hours watching figure skating on […]

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