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You want spooky? Here’s spooky.
Every computer geek in the world knows this already, but non-geeks ought to be aware of the worm called Conficker. This rogue software has infected computers throughout the world by exploiting a chink in Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Computer [...]
This editorial will appear in Sunday's print edition.
The first rule of writing a ballot title is to plainly, accurately and neutrally describe what the measure would do.
The second is to give voters the benefit of the doubt.
Pierce County violated the first but observed the second in settling on [...]
David Montgomery, a UW geomorphologist, is an authority on dirt. Don’t laugh. His new book, “Dirt: The Erosion of Civilization,” links the decline of great civilizations to the loss of their soil.
Things are getting worse, he said in an interview posted on the Celsias Web site:
Modern agricultural soil erosion [...]
I tagged along yesterday for the Tacoma School Board's tour of the new Science And Math Institute (SAMI) at Point Defiance Park and was impressed.
It's not fancy – just a series of recycled portables set up in a gravel lot near the park's go-carts and batting cages. The desks [...]
The first rule of writing a ballot title is to plainly, accurately and neutrally describe what the measure would do. The second is to give voters the benefit of the doubt. Pierce County violated the first but observed the second in settling on ballot language for three charter amendments that [...]
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First Amendment rights aren’t trivialities.
Washington’s political parties have legitimate concerns about the erosion of their constitutional right of association under the state’s new Top Two primary. State leaders should be addressing those concerns.
The unusual Top Two system – which simply advances the two [...]
This editorial will appear in Friday's print edition.
Is it graffiti, or is it art? And can it be both?
The mural proposed by Urban Grace Church for the back of Tacoma’s Rialto Theater is striking,. The design incorporates elements of both street graffiti and Islamic mosaic pattern in [...]
Blogger/author Diana West takes issue with all the plaudits for Ted Kennedy. She had a similarly jaundiced view upon the passing of newsman Walter Cronkite.
By Diana West
Something about the death of a famous liberal person turns the media into grieving widows whose dictum against speaking “ill” of the dead [...]
This editorial will appear in Thursday's print edition.
Maybe it was the lovely summer evening, but the thousands who showed up Tuesday at Lakewood’s Harry Lang Stadium to talk heath care were in a surprisingly good mood.
Congressman Adam Smith, D-Tacoma, booked the stadium after the RSVP list for his [...]
Congressman Adam Smith, moderate that is, told neither side of the health care reform debate exactly what it wanted to hear Tuesday night. His town hall meeting in Lakewood was raucous but only by Northwest standards. Participants were passionate but generally respectful. If only citizens were always so engaged.
The intriguing [...]
This editorial will appear in Tuesday's print edition.
It’s hard to make a rule against stopping just short of breaking the rules. The attitude is offensive, but it’s not an offense.
So maybe no rule can guarantee that what happened to Taylor Mack on Fort Lewis two years ago won’t happen again.
Mack, [...]
This editorial will appear in Tuesday's print edition.
The Martin Luther King Housing Development Association is in such sorry shape that it can’t afford to assess its own sorriness.
The nonprofit agency is asking the City of Tacoma for $6,000 to hire an accountant to sort out its books following [...]
I am old enough to remember when the nation learned of the My Lai massacre in 1969.
The fact that U.S. troops had killed so many women, children and elderly Vietnamese was shocking enough. What shocked me more was the response of many Americans, who ferociously defended the massacre. Some [...]
The Martin Luther King Housing Development Association’s financial crisis doesn’t speak well of either its former executive director Felix Flannigan or the agency's board. Why did it take the board this long to act? Something needs to be done to preserve the association’s affordable housing, but any kind of public [...]
An epiphany occurred during a recent oil change and with the help of my auto mechanic I think I may finally have a grasp on the health care crisis.
“While we were under the van we saw something”
“Saw something?” I say to Bill. The name Bill was embroidered on [...]
This editorial will appear in Monday's print edition.
Washington state has recycling or take-back programs for old computers, old motor oil and old tires. But people with a few extra Vicodin are out of luck.
That’s absurd and has to change. Too many children and teenagers are raiding their parents’ medicine cabinet [...]
This editorial will appear in tomorrow's print edition.
Afghanistan is bleeding America, albeit slowly.
One of the latest NATO casualties in that far-off nation hit close to home. Army 1st Sgt Jose San Nicolas Crisostomo – a 59-year-old Spanaway man – was killed by a roadside bomb in Kabul Tuesday. His death [...]
As Labor Day approaches, the "town hall meetings" are at last coming to an end. In case you haven’t heard, these meetings between members of Congress and their constituents have seen remarkable protests against the Democrats’ “Obamacare” health care reform bill(s).
There are two opposing interpretations of the significance of these [...]
For Sunday: Army 1st Sgt. Jose San Nicolas Crisostomo – a 59-year-old Spanaway man – was killed by a roadside bomb in Kabul Tuesday. There’s nothing murky about the cause he gave his life for.
For Monday: Washington is fortunate to have a public-private partnership that has collected thousands of [...]
Surprise winner emerges from Afghanistan's presidential election: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Given the specter of climate change, 1,000 megawatts of carbon-neutral power – enough to power all of Seattle – are a precious commodity.
Somehow, that fact seems lost on the people who remain bent on breaching the four hydroelectric dams on the Lower Snake [...]
This editorial will appear in Friday's print edition.
Talk about an extreme makeover.
The building at 14511 West Thorne Lane S.W. in Lakewood used to be a biker bar that created its share of headaches for local police. Now it’s a youth center – a big trade up for the Tillicum community, [...]
The Army seems to be taking seriously the allegations that a Fort Lewis criminal intelligence analyst infiltrated an antiwar group. This is serious stuff, governed by laws that restrict such operations. Whether the Army employee was acting alone or under orders from higher up, the military needs to come clean [...]
Carolyn McConnell, writing at Crosscut, has a post about a little-known aspect of the new state budget intended to not only cut Medicaid costs but also encourage doctors to perform fewer C-sections during child birth.
Beginning this month, the state of Washington will pay hospitals the same amount for an [...]
The Tacoma/Pierce County Black Collective and the Political Destiny Committee announced their joint endorsements in some Aug. 18 primary races.
How do they compare with The News Tribune editorial board's choices? Ours are in parentheses.
Port of Tacoma Position 1: Connie Bacon (Bacon)
Puyallup City Council District 3, Pos. 2: Nicolla Tebao (Kent [...]
The Luzon Building's building fate rests on a good forecast, and possibly the willingness of current owner, The Gintz Group, to get out of the way, Historic Tacoma told supporters in an e-mail this morning.
Apparently, the City of Tacoma has found another developer willing to take on the 1890 [...]
This editorial will appear in Friday's print edition.
Sonia Sotomayor made history Thursday.
Hispanic Americans, the nation’s largest and fastest-growing minority, finally have one of their own on the U.S. Supreme Court. Sotomayor is their Thurgood Marshall, their Sandra Day O’Connor – proof that the highest court of the [...]
This editorial will appear in Friday's print edition.
State parks need that $5 donation from drivers
To opt out or not opt out. Beginning next month, that will be the question for Washington drivers as they renew their license tabs.
If they check a box on the renewal form, they opt out of [...]
Here's what we're planning for tomorrow's editorials:
The confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor today is a historic occasion, especially for Latinos who had long awaited this moment. In the end, nine Republicans recognized crossed the aisle, but the 68-31 vote is the third nominee in a row to be opposed by at' [...]
Today, on the 64th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Tom Karlin of Lakewood and his fellow pacifists took folded paper cranes to a peace ceremony in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
The "Journey of Repentance" led by Karlin and Father Bill Bichsel has stirred angry reactions in this community [...]
This editorial will appear in Thursday's print edition.
Puyallup’s anti-solicitation ordinance provides exceptions for an odd assortment of characters: newspaper couriers, lawn-care providers, farmers, kids selling holiday wreaths, the guy with the snow blower trying to capitalize on a rare Western Washington blizzard.
What’s missing from that list is a [...]
Last night, Ben Schiendelman at seattletransitblog.com weighed in on the debate over how Sound Transit will build its Sounder tracks from Freighthouse Square through Tacoma’s Dome District and over Pacific Avenue.
His take: This fight has gone on long enough. Opponents have had their shot. Let's get on with [...]
You may have heard that The News Tribune has joined to fight to get a court to unseal legal records in a lawsuit filed by Susan Hutchison, former TV news anchor and now candidate for King County executive.
This is primarily The Seattle Times' fight. The paper, whose 2006' [...]
They are going to write about us you know.
Someday, in the distant future, books will be written and movies will be made about we the people who lived in the time of the Great Recession. I’m talking “Grapes of Wrath” like stories only instead of traveling across country looking [...]
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Eric Faison’s decision not to run again for the Federal Way City Council set of a sort of gold rush for his Position 6 seat.
Five candidates want the job: Diana Noble-Gulliford, Roger Freeman, David St. John, Lorie Wood and Troy Smith. We favor [...]
From left: Figueroa, Gates, Lashley (front), Crowley
With all the uproar over the arrest of Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr., I'm surprised there hasn't been more mention of the multi-ethnic nature of the bust.
The professor was led off in handcuffs by a rainbow trio of police officers: Sgt. [...]
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Health care reform must begin with parsimony, not generosity. Without the former, you can’t get to the latter.
“Bending the curve” – ratcheting down the rate of hyperinflation – is the key to broadening health insurance coverage, whether it be publicly or privately financed. [...]
Here's what we're working on for over the weekend.
SUNDAY: Health care reform won't go anywhere unless it gets a handle on runaway costs.
And editorial page editor Patrick O'Callahan rides the new Central Link light rail and looks at what might have been – had King County voters not rejected transit' [...]
The accolades continue coming in for the late Walter Cronkite. But blogger/author Diana West has a different take on "Uncle Walter" – all but blaming him for the U.S. losing the Vietnam War.
Cronkite's offensive history
It’s time for a post-Cronkite post-mortem, but not on the late “icon” himself — the “most [...]
This editorial will appear in Friday's print edition.
Keep Linda Bird on UPlace City Council
There’s a big, ugly hole in the center of University Place, potentially big enough to bury the political careers of City Council members who helped dig it.
But it would be unfortunate if voters took out their frustration [...]
This editorial will appear in Friday's print edition.
Fiscal sanity the winner in F-22 vote
The Senate took a small but welcome step toward getting a handle on military spending Tuesday by voting to clip the wings of the Air Force’s hugely expensive F-22 Raptor.
The vote should have been a formality. After [...]
Although four seats on the University Place City Council are up for election, only one will be on the Aug. 18 primary ballot. Our endorsement editorial will be posted here by 8 tonight.
Also, the Senate was right to vote against funding for the F22 Raptor. Now the House should agree. [...]
This editorial will appear in tomorrow's print edition.
There’s no mystery why Federal Way Municipal Court Judge Michael Morgan faces five challengers on the city’s Aug. 18 primary ballot.
Morgan is dragging an iron ball and heavy baggage into his quest for a second four-year term.
The ball chained to his ankle is [...]
This editorial will appear in Thursday's print edition.
Port of Tacoma: Re-elect Connie Bacon
The last two years have not been great for the Port of Tacoma.
First came the bust on the port’s $21 million gamble to buy up land near Maytown in Thurston County to build a rail yard. Then port [...]
Harvard Prof. Henry Gates' tussle with a Cambridge police officer has the chattering classes arguing over whether it proves:
a) America remains saturated with racism.
b) Gates was "playing the race card."
c) The sergeant was a bully.
d) They're both hotheads.
Bonus option: e) You can be [...]
By Neely Tucker
The Washington Post
One of the common-sense rules of life can be summed up this way: Don’t Mess With Cops.
It doesn’t matter if you are right, wrong, at home or on the street, or if you are black, Hispanic, Jewish, Muslim or whatever. When an armed law enforcement [...]
I can't help notice the juxtaposition between Washington's two behemoth manufacturers:
Microsoft announced today the imminent release of Windows 7 to a world long-tormented by its bloated, glitch-infested Vista operating system.
Meanwhile, Boeing still can't get its 787 Dreamliner off the ground. The Seattle Times reports today that a [...]
Our primary election endorsements continue Thursday with our two choices in the six-way race for Federal Way Municipal Court. Five candidates are challenging the embattled incumbent, Judge Michael Morgan.
We also endorse in the Port of Tacoma race in which two candidates are challenging incumbent commission member Connie Bacon.
Both editorials will [...]
This editorial will appear in Wednesday's print edition.
Brandstetter for Lakewood City Council
With three open seats up for election, change is coming to the Lakewood City Council in a big way. Helen McGovern, Pad Finnigan and Ron Cronk are stepping down, so there will be three new faces on the seven-person [...]
This editorial will appear in Tuesday's print edition.
No mission of local government matters more than ensuring the education of the next generation, yet school boards, as a rule, don’t usually attract vigorous election races.
This year, Tacoma is the exception.
It’s easy, perhaps too easy, to [...]
I feel like I’ve almost worn my fingertips off over the last 20 years writing arguments for building a light rail line in the Puget Sound region.
So I couldn’t turn down Sound Transit’s invitation to a sneak-preview ride on Central Link, the first 14 miles of what will become [...]
We endorse two candidates for Tacoma School Board, Position 2. The seat is currently held by Connie Rickman, who is facing five challengers for re-election.
The editorial will be posted here at 8 tonight.
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On July 20, 1969, American families huddled around the TV set (most of us only had one back then) to watch the lunar landing. We held our collective breath as the astronauts looked for a good place to land the Eagle.
I remember thinking, "What if they" [...]
This editorial will appear in Monday's print edition.
40 years later, sense of awe remains
“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” – Astronaut Neil Armstrong from the moon, July 20, 1969
For Americans who are middle-aged or older, the events of July 1969 – when man went to the moon and [...]
This editorial will appear in Sunday's print edition.
Dill, Taylor, Boyle for Puyallup City Council
Anyone who’s been tracking Puyallup City Council meetings knows they aren’t lovefests.
The discussions frequently break down into sharp clashes between two voting blocs. The four-member majority is – unsurprisingly – comfortable with the direction of the [...]
Sacha Baron Cohen’s films “Borat” or rather, “Borat: Cultural Learnings From America Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” his 2006 box office hit, and now his latest release “Bruno” seem to have two main objectives: to shock and to awe.
If you don’t walk out of the theater after seeing [...]
On Sunday, we'll make our endorsements in the three Puyallup City Council races on the August primary ballot. Check here Saturday evening for an early posting of our picks.
Our editorial on Monday marks the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. For Americans who are middle-aged or older, the events of' [...]
John Miles, our pick for Tacoma City Council's District 5, sent us a copy of a message he received this morning from a former neighbor in the 8th and I neighborhood, where Neighbors' Park is. We said in our editorial that he "helped develop" the park. The neighbor took issue' [...]
I’ve been in the business of candidate endorsements since Ronald Reagan was president, and I’ve never run into the dilemma presented this year by the District 5 race for the Tacoma City Council.
It’s the only time our editorial board has ever had to evaluate a fellow News Tribune employee as [...]
This editorial will appear in Friday's edition.
No matter who voters pick among the many candidates running for Tacoma City Council this year, the council will look a lot different come January.
That’s the result of the city’s term limits, which are showing three council members and the mayor the [...]
Give him credit: Judge Michael Morgan of Federal Way stopped by here for an endorsement interview Wednesday despite a year and a half of receiving less-than-flattering coverage in The News Tribune (and criticism from this page).
Facing five challengers in the Aug. 18 primary, Morgan offered a vigorous defense of his [...]
We plan to make our endorsements in the Tacoma City Council races that will appear on the August primary ballot. Check back here this evening for an early posting of Friday's editorial.
If you have comments or questions about these topics, please email them to patrick.ocallahan@thenewstribune.com. Editorials represent the [...]
This editorial will appear in tomorrow's print edition.
Sonia Sotomayor undercut her critics and supporters alike Tuesday by simply walking away from the line that’s been bedeviling her nomination for the U.S. Supreme Court.
The line, from a 2001 speech to group of Latino law students: “I would hope that [...]
This editorial will appear in Wednesday's print edition.
Get creative against partyers in Lake Tapps cove
It’s easy to sympathize with the folks who live along Lake Tapps’ Fairweather Cove. On nice days, they have to endure an armada of noisy boaters who all but commandeer the cove with [...]
Senate Republicans organizing tit-for-tat vote against Sotomayor in response to Dems' votes against John Roberts ought to stand down – the better to restore the tradition of giving any president's nomination the benefit of the doubt.
Our second topic is TBD, but one possibility is a comment on the sheriff's crackdown' [...]
Case Inlet has proven quite the troublesome patch of shoreline for Taylor Shellfish, which leases land there to grow geoducks that fetch top dollar in Asian markets. A Department of Natural Resources employee was recently investigating a complaint from an upland property owner and noticed that Taylor's farm might have [...]
This editorial will appear in tomorrow's print edition.
At times we thought we’d never see the day. But it arrives Saturday: the first big section of regional light rail.
Celebration is in order. Supporters can welcome the realization of their decades-old vision. Skeptics should find some satisfaction that Sound Transit is finally [...]
The military ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has largely been reported in this country as an illegal coup. Here's another view:
By Miguel A. Estrada
Special to the Los Angeles Times
Honduras, the tiny Central American nation, had a change of leaders on June 28. The country’s military arrested President Manuel [...]
Excuse me while I bask in the civility. It’s so rare, especially in politics. It was found in abundance today during the political theater that was the first day of Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice. It seems worth taking a moment just to say ahhh.
[...] This editorial will appear in Monday's print edition.
L&I, Justice Sanders run up the bill
Withholding public records can be costly – and so can judges who neglect to recuse themselves from cases that pose conflicts of interest.
That’s the pair of lessons stemming from a recent Thurston County court ruling, [...]
This editorial will appear in tomorrow's print edition.
Now it’s official: Boeing wants a no-strike guarantee from its unions, or it’s going to create a second 787 plant elsewhere.
Boeing hasn’t said it out loud. But U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks and Gov. Chris Gregoire confirmed last week that they’d heard as much [...]
Two things baffle me about the argument over lethal injection.
One is the position of the state – not just Washington but the thirty-plus other states that use the same “humane” method of executing condemned murderers.
Three Washington death-row inmates have sued to abolish the current lethal injection regime, which employs three [...]
For Sunday: Now it’s explicit: Boeing wants a no strike guarantee, and it’s holding all the cards. The company’s very well paid machinists and engineers helped bring this on by using walkouts as a routine negotiating tactic.
If you have comments or questions about these topics, please email them to [...]
The editorial board is at a stalemate no more. After Pat and I posted our pro-con on the proposed smoking ban for Tacoma parks earlier today, the board found a compromise. This editorial will appear in Friday's edition.
Metro Parks and the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department think they have an [...]
This editorial will appear in Friday's print edition.
Google’s Chrome could offer welcome competition
Speed, simplicity, security.
To owners of personal computers, those qualities can be agonizingly out of reach. Calling up a Web site can seem to take forever, but everything can inexplicably come crashing down in a matter of seconds. Viruses [...]
From our Word on the Street blog: Tacoma ranks in bottom fourth of safe-driving cities
Could this have anything to do with the fact that drivers around here consider it strictly optional to signal before they turn or switch lanes?
[...]Ah, Farrah Fawcett. That smile, that kick-butt role in "Charlie's Angels," that tragic love life.
That hair. If you were a girl or young woman in the '70s, you wanted Farrah Fawcett hair. Future editorial writers were no exception.
At left is Cheryl Tucker, circa 1977. And on the right is my' [...]
Jenny Sanford should stop while she's ahead.
Up until now, the first lady of South Carolina has been a model jilted wife. This former Wall Street executive didn't stand by her man as he gave a rambling account of his six days AWOL in Argentina and pathetically' [...]
In reviewing the Tacoma school board members' evaluations of Superintendent Art Jarvis, I was struck not by what they contained, but by what they didn't.
The "teaching/learning" category listed three "essential functions and goals" on which the board judged Jarvis. Not one of them mentioned student achievement. Rather, the school [...]
This editorial will appear in Friday's print edition.
Father Tim: Five years later, a casualty of war
Some who die in war die quickly. Others take longer.
Father Tim – the Rev. Henry Timothy Vakoc – took just over five years. He died Saturday in a Minnesota nursing home of injuries inflicted by [...]
This editorial will appear in Friday's print edition.
The Tacoma School Board is happy with its superintendent hire, and it has reason to be. But the board shouldn’t stop expecting more.
Art Jarvis, who was named permanent superintendent last July, has ably put the district’s house in order following [...]
When news of Michael Jackson's death broke this afternoon, we had an internal discussion about whether to write a quick turn-around editorial for Friday.
My impulse – since I'm the one who probably would have had to write it – was to say no. I couldn't figure what [...]
The Tacoma school board rightfully gave first-year Superintendent Art Jarvis high marks for financial management. He scored lowest in the area of student and teacher performance, a perpetual struggle for the urban district. It's there that Jarvis needs to make the most progress if the board hopes to retain community [...]
This editorial will appear in tomorrow's print edition.
What are they thinking at Tacoma’s city hall?
City officials are – seriously – contemplating asking voters this November to approve a six-year, $180 million levy to repair Tacoma’s streets and sidewalks.
This would be a down payment on a four-phase, citywide overhaul project [...]
I may have finally figured out People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
They’ve opposed the drinking of milk, linked their cause to the shooting of an abortion doctor, scolded veterinarians about fish-tossing. Now they’ve expressed regret that Barack Obama has swatted a fly.
"We support compassion even" [...]
This editorial will appear in tomorrow's print edition.
There’s nothing wrong, in theory, with Federal Way having its own municipal court. Other cities have their own courts, and the wheels of justice grind along just fine.
But the Federal Way City Council is now exploring the possibility of handing its misdemeanor cases [...]
This editorial will appear in Thursday's print edition.
The new bluegrass capital of the Northwest is Bellevue, as improbable as that sounds.
With the announcement this week that Wintergrass is leaving its Tacoma birthplace and moving to allegedly cheaper pastures on King County’s east side, Tacoma has lost a major [...]
In this morning's paper, I wrote the pillars of the state economy shouldn't be taken for granted. There's evidence that critical decisions are being made now affecting one of those pillars: The Boeing Company and the aerospace cluster it anchors.
In yesterday's London Times, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney says' [...]
This editorial will appear in tomorrow's print edition.
Governments rig elections for only one reason: They’re afraid of the people.
The fear appears to run deep among Iran’s ruling mullahs and their allies. The massive demonstrations since Friday’s presidential election show that their worries are well-founded.
So far, no proof has emerged that [...]
This editorial will appear in tomorrow's print edition.
When the state Supreme Court takes a couple days to unanimously rule against you, it’s a safe bet you didn’t have much of a case.
Such was the fate last week of a lawsuit to prevent the public from seeing a report on the [...]
Rae Iwamoto, the administrator of the Federal Way Municipal Court, has this to say about Michael Morgan:
If all that I knew about Judge Morgan was based on the items in the Stephson report, I might have a very different view and opinion of him. However, I have had the good [...]
Michael Morgan, the embattled Federal Way judge, offers this rebuttal to the newly released Stephson report, which harshly criticized his administration of the city's municipal court:
Ms. Stephson's report was thoroughly vetted by the Commission on Judicial Conduct. The CJC interviewed all the witnesses Ms. Stephson interviewed and also interviewed [...]
Inherent to parenthood are awkward conversations.
Parents know them as the Where-How-Why-Yuck conversations. They don’t necessarily follow in the where, how, why order but they all pretty much finish with “Yuck!” (Reference classic “Where do babies come from?”)
New parents can expect these exchanges to begin at about age four, although [...]
This editorial will appear in tomorrow's print edition.
Tobacco is unique. As many have pointed out, it’s the only legal product that, when used as intended, kills its users.
It’s unique in another respect. Paradoxically, it’s been exempt from the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight. The FDA has routinely regulated lipstick, dog [...]
This editorial will appear in Sunday's print edition.
So Randy Dorn wants another delay in holding our children, their teachers and the state’s school districts accountable for learning.
The state schools superintendent is not the first nor will he be the last public official to call for pushing back [...]
The timing is curious.
On Tuesday, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright – Barack Obama’s pastor not long ago – blames “them Jews” for keeping him away from the president. (Actually, comments like “them Jews” and “God damn America” may have more to do with his lack of photo ops with Obama.)
On [...]
