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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Monday, February 17, 2025

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The Madness Of Slamming Midnight Basketball

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BY FROMA HARROP Eighteen years ago, “midnight basketball” was the big har-har-har on the conservative talk circuit. It was a federal program that sought to coax young men off the late-night mean city streets and onto supervised basketball courts. This $40 million item was a speck in a $33 billion crime bill. [For further contrast, advertisers last year spent $614 million on the March Madness college basketball tournament.] But you wouldn’t have fathomed the smallness […]

Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.