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What Teachers Know: One Teacher’s List

Sharon Martin - September 22, 2015 0

BY SHARON MARTIN Some smart kids don’t test well. What helps a kid score well on the next test isn’t necessarily what makes him a thinker...

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The Pre-Emption Of Mayberry RFD

Arnold Hamilton - September 21, 2015 0

BY DAVID PERRYMAN In 1969, Monday evenings on CBS meant the second season of Mayberry RFD. However, Dec. 1, 1969 was a stark exception. On...

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Why We Have Lower Services, Higher Fees

Joe Dorman - September 18, 2015 0

BY JOE DORMAN State agency officials were warned last week to prepare for additional budget cuts for the 2016-17 fiscal year. The Legislature and our governor...

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Planned Parenthood Politics

Arnold Hamilton - September 18, 2015 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH It wasn’t just the Republican candidates who, with one exception, went out of their ways to outdo one another in their condemnation of an organization that is the sole provider of basic gynecological, obstetric and preventative care services to millions of American men and women. That’s five million people worldwide, and 2.7 […]

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When Liars Debate, The Truth Always Loses

Arnold Hamilton - September 18, 2015 0

BY JOE CONASON Watching the second Republican presidential debate on CNN and its aftermath, millions of Americans learned again what we already know about these candidates: These people embellish, prettify and fabricate their own biographies without hesitation, from Donald Trump’s much-parodied boasting about his business acumen to Carly Fiorina’s super-selective accounting of her tenure at […]