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Editorial
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Editorial
BUDGET hawks warned that legislators would go on an irresponsible spending spree when economists said last week that they had another $290 million to spend next year.
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Two of the nation’s smartest analysts have just come out with reports on how the presidential election looks six months out. Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution argues that at this point President Barack Obama has a modest advantage over Mitt Romney. The pollster Peter D. Hart says that “this election is no better than a 50-50 proposition for the president.”
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Thirty-two million. That is the potential gap in the number of words heard by a 4-year-old raised in a college-educated household vs. a 4-year-old raised by parents who did not complete high school. Gaps in vocabulary develop early (by 18 months), persist and have implications for the child’s academic success, including his chances for completing high school.
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Today, let’s do a favor for Mitt Romney.
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“You have a Prius. … You probably compost, sort all your recycling, and have a reusable shopping bag for your short drive to Whole Foods. You are the best! So, do we really need the Obama sticker?”
For most of my adult voting life I have been an independent. I vote for my principles and not the party. This year, however, scares me.
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In the last election, Nicolas Sarkozy lost his wife. In this one, he lost France.
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Yes, the system has struggled mightily as a result of inadequate funding and even now faces significant cuts, including the end of Sunday routes.
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REP. WALT McLeod is passionate and smart and a little quirky, and on the day the House finally took up the bill to dismantle the Budget and Control Board, he was at his best.
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“It’s a mandate for the issues we ran on.”
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We met last week in a medium-security correctional facility. There, I spent a couple of hours talking with a group of men who are studying for their GEDs. I stressed to them the need for long-term goals, the criticality of education in an era where good-paying, low-skill jobs are going away, and the importance of refusing to allow oneself to be defined by whatever box of race or class society has placed you in. It was toward the end that Russell asked a question whose exact wording I can’t recall, but whose gist was a simple challenge:
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IT SHOULDN’T matter that federal judges refused to move our primary elections to August. We ought to be able to depend on our Legislature to do that — and to fix the mess that it created when it didn’t think through the implications of a change in the state ethics law that has resulted in nearly 200 candidates being thrown off the primary and general election ballots.
