BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD Justice is an interesting concept. Most of us would prefer mercy to justice for ourselves. However, most of us think that...

BY FROSTY TROY Could Barack Obama's record-setting fundraising be the death knell of campaign-finance "reform"? After saying he would accept public funding and live within the...

BY KENNY BELFORD   Approaching the New Year, and the end of the reign of error of George W. Bush, perhaps a brief reflection of the...

BY ARNOLD HAMILTON The numbers are worse than we thought: State lawmakers will have $309.6 million less to spend next year than they had last...

POSTED BY FROSTY TROY Teachers who meet the "highly qualified" state-set standard were teaching core subjects in 94% of the nation's classrooms in the 2006-07...