To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

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    The Hard Work Of A Downtown Christmas

    Columnists Arnold Hamilton - 0

    BY FROMA HARROP Friday night in the big city, I’m bopping along Fifth Avenue with my brother, and the place is one huge construction site. But this evening’s industriousness differs from the usual after-hours midtown work. Guys aren’t pouring new cement, climbing out of sewer manholes or replacing air-conditioning systems. They’re not unloading truckloads of […]

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    It’s Time To Free Students From Debt

    Columnists Arnold Hamilton - 0

    BY JIM HIGHTOWER Butch Hancock, one of Austin’s finest singer-songwriters, grew up in the Texas Panhandle, out among dry-land farmers and strict fundamentalist Christians. Butch once told me that he felt he’d been permanently scarred in his vulnerable teen years by the local culture’s puritanical preaching on sexual propriety: “They told us that sex is […]

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    Our Disgraceful Minimum Wage

    Columnists Arnold Hamilton - 0

    BY JIM HIGHTOWER In natural terms, our economy is a giant sequoia. Unfortunately, our present corporate and governmental leadership can’t seem to grasp one of the basic laws of nature: You can’t keep a mighty tree alive [much less have it thrive] by only spritzing the fine leaves at the tippy-top. The fate of the […]

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    People Shouldn’t Live On The Streets. Period.

    Columnists Froma Harrop - 0

    A lot of smart voices seem afraid to say outright that homeless mentally ill people should be taken off the streets, forcibly if necessary. They may easily agree that the sad humans sleeping on grates and under bridges would benefit from coming indoors for medical care and other social services. But they can’t concede that […]

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    It Is In Our Interest To Save Other Species

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    BY FROMA HARROP The dusky gopher frog is a tiny thing. Once thriving in the longleaf pine forests of the South, only about 250 remain in the wild, in Mississippi. The endangered frog could soon disappear forever if the U.S. Supreme Court rules against a plan to preserve breeding ponds in Louisiana. The dispute centers […]

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