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  • Deregulating Schools?

    Mar 20, 2009 | No Comments

    BY ED CANNADAY Debate on Senate Bill 834, or the School Empowerment Act, ratcheted up this week. The bill is designed to allow local school boards to disregard or deregulate state mandates. Five areas would be exempt from this process, including requirements for: 1. serving all students in the district; 2. maintaining minimum salary schedule; [...]

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  • The 411 On Washington Babel

    Mar 19, 2009 | No Comments

    BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD There is a great deal of confusion among the public regarding the various spending measures which have passed or have been proposed to Congress. To some, Washington has been cursed as a modern Tower of Babel. Of course, one reason for this is that there have been so many different bills [...]

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  • Poor Rich

    Mar 18, 2009 | No Comments

    BY FROSTY TROY According to the Census Bureau, in 2007 the 20% who own 85% of all wealth also commanded roughly 50% of all income while earning an average of $168,000 that year. Half earned more than $168,000 and half earned somewhere between $100,000 and $168,000. Upper-middle class households earned 23% of aggregate income, taking [...]

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  • Blarney, GOP-Style

    Mar 17, 2009 | No Comments

    BY KAREN WEBB There is enough blarney in the GOP to gag St. Patrick. It is too nice to call what they do blarney because blarney is cute legends about little people who dance jigs. It isn’t blarney the GOP is coming out with – it is pure, unadulterated false witness bearing: Sen. Mitch McConnell, [...]

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  • Just Like Bush

    Mar 15, 2009 | No Comments

    BY KAREN WEBB Dear Mr. President, Do you believe in the rule of law or not? Do you believe some should obey and others don’t have to? I recall you being very critical of George W. Bush locking people up indefinitely without charges, but you are leaving them locked up without charges and I see [...]

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