Opinion and Editorial

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A tub of calories

Opinion: Los Angeles Times: Movie theaters are making a melodrama out of a molehill by resisting a proposal


Federal spending decreases

Opinion: It’s not ideal but funding the federal government two or three weeks at a time is cutting spending


Taking time to raise awareness

Opinion: Taking time to raise awareness April is autism awareness month. Autism is a disorder that now


Welfare state a loser for US

Opinion: When someone gives you a check and the bank informs you that there are insufficient funds, who do


We are ignoring history

Opinion: By Glenn Garvin McClatchy Newspapers A couple of weeks before the United States invaded Iraq in


Right way to spread wealth

Opinion: During the 2008 presidential campaign when candidate Barack Obama told “Joe the Plumber” that he


Performance audit provides map toward city school savings

Editorial: The hard cold fact of a perfor- mance audit is that it’s only worth the paper it is printed on


Don’t shortchange our youth

Opinion: By Justin Akers Chacon McClatchy-Tribune We can’t let our politicians betray the promise of


Cuba’s dissidents are not alone

Opinion: Cuba’s dissidents are not alone Miami Herald: When former President Jimmy Carter last visited


Different view of public employees

Opinion: Different view of public employees I just want to be sure I under- stand the Tea Party perspective


Muslim group not a threat

Opinion: By John B. QUIGLEY McClatchy-Tribune COLUMBUS, Ohio The Muslim Brotherhood is no threat to


Mercury rule will clean air

Opinion: Newsday: It took the Environmental Protection Agency two decades, but it has finally proposed a


Brotherhood bad for Egypt

Opinion: By David A. RIDENOUR McClatchy-Tribune WASHINGTON One person, one vote, one time doesn’t make


U.N. panel should question Libyan about Pan Am attack

Editorial: The British and Scottish govern- ments have little credibility when it comes to getting all the


A crisis in Latin America

Opinion: MEXICO CITY Mexico is not Libya, Egypt or Tunisia, but it has something in common with them — a