Articles Tagged “government”
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Where Are The Answers?
BY VERN TURNER There is this stone in my shoe named Joe. Joe is a Tea Party advocate and, as anyone who reads my columns might expect, despises everything I write from a political standpoint. Joe doesn’t hold back from sending me all the stuff that he assiduously researches on the Internet. Ninety-nine percent it [...]
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When A City Goes Bankrupt
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All In This Together
BY SHARON MARTIN Bishop Edward James Slattery told our congregation that abortion is the biggest problem facing America today. Rep. Sally Kern told her audience that gays are a greater threat to American security than terrorists. Presumably neither of them has ever been food insecure. They both have safe places to live, access to health [...]
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Helping The Neediest Among Us
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Dreaming Real Reform
BY SHARON MARTIN In the United States, we talk democracy, but we practice minority rule. Sure, we all can vote, at least for the time being, but it is the few with enough money to buy politicians who determine policy. In the past two decades we have seen the redistribution of wealth from the middle [...]
