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Letters Drug tests for welfare users
A reform worth trying I think we will find that drug testing will only add to the financial burden of taxpayers, while accomplishing nothing. This is the type of legislation passed that only throws red meat to citizens tired of the stories of people living their life on welfare. I do believe the new requirement for your kids to be in school to continue receiving assistance is a good start. Some ...
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May 21 Letters To the Editor
Gun law a liabilityOnce again a Democrat wants to further restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens ("Conley takes aim at guns with strict new bill," May 12). Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley wants to force gun owners to carry liability insurance. This will just make legal ownership of a gun prohibitively expensive in Massachusetts, thereby making gun ownership for many, ...
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Doctors flee Medicare system
WASHINGTON - Among ?President Obama’s broken promises, there is this gem of June 15, 2009: "no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise: if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period."That promise helped sway the American Medical Association to back the president’s Affordable Care Act. But the AMA endorsement merely reflected a ...
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Bring sense to budget
Something about the state budget-writing process can cause lawmakers to lose sight of their fundamental purpose on Beacon Hill. That occurred to us as we perused the 725 (!) proposed amendments to the Senate budget proposal, debate on which begins tomorrow.To wit: One senator is seeking $15,000 to pay for signs that direct cyclists in the Pan Mass Challenge, a wildly successful cancer-fighting ...
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In our opinion Prepare for outdoors
The warm-weather recreation season is beginning, and Utah families will be wise to take note that according to public health agencies, those most vulnerable to death and injury from recreation-related accidents are children under age 15. Already this month, a child was killed in an ATV accident and a teenager severely injured in a hiking fall. The National Weather Service has issued its annual ...
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Robert Bennett With public trust waning Swallow needs administrative leave
Utah Attorney General John Swallow speaks out Jan. 14, 2013, in his office at the state Capitol about allegations that he was involved in improper ...
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Minneapolis motorcycle death leaves many questions
The driver of the motorcycle, Ivan Romero Oliveras, was killed during crash with a police squad at the intersection of 26th Street and Blaisdell Avenue. His passenger, Joselin Torrejon, was injured and is listed as serious at HCMC. Friends and family left flowers and lit candles at crash ...
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Dont judge my service industry career
We’re in the midst of graduation season in Minnesota. With the metro area’s concentration of world-class universities and colleges, parents from all over the country and the world are attending their children’s graduation ceremonies. Once the relief of not having to fork over one more tuition bill wears off, the dread of "what’s next?" will set in. This past ...
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Mental illness has many faces
May is Mental Health Awareness Month - particularly noteworthy given the numerous news stories that we read online or see on the evening news. We have had our emotions stretched from fear to anger to sadness as we’ve heard about Aurora, Newtown, or any number of stories involving untimely deaths and heartache. I’d like to offer you a different face of mental illness. One in which a ...
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IRS inquiry rests on 4 key questions Our view
Conducted by independent professionals and monitored by Congress. Washington scandals follow a familiar arc. When an administration fouls up, the White House lops off some lower-level heads and tries to change the subject to the supposedly more important business facing the nation.Not so fast, the opposing party says. Lawmakers hint at corruption and coverups that extend straight into the Oval ...
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Cheap clothes carry high price tellusatoday
More than 1,100 garment workers died when a factory collapsed in Bangladesh last month. The tragedy sparked a discussion on what people in the U.S. can do to improve working conditions abroad. Comments from Twitter and Facebook:U.S. consumers can do nothing to help. Greedy Americans have shares in those Third World coffin factories.-- @ChiefBisongEta1Consumers can support companies with good ...
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Get tougher on tanning bed labels Your Say
The Food and Drug Administration is recommending that tanning beds carry a warning label alerting users to the risk of skin cancer and saying they shouldn't be used by people younger than 18. Comments from Facebook:I'm 25 and was diagnosed last May with Melanoma. This would be a great change for tanning beds.-- Lindsey WilliamsWarning label? Seriously? If tanning beds are that serious ...
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Yahoo-Tumblr mashups uncertain future Opinionline
Casey Newton, The Verge: "Marissa Mayer just made her biggest bet to date as Yahoo's CEO -- and if it goes badly, she may not get the chance to make another. A series of recent acquisitions culminated Monday with the announcement that Yahoo is spending roughly one-sixth of its cash hoard to buy Tumblr, the popular but undermonetized blogging platform. The deal brings Yahoo the vibrant, ...
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Guest Stop using the term ‘illegal immigrants’
Stop using illegal immigrant. It’s un-American. Too often we take words for granted. The results are at best irresponsible, and at worst, discriminatory. The term "illegal immigrant" is dehumanizing, derogatory and destructive. The i-word is a racial slur that shreds the human rights of 11 million undocumented immigrants living and working in this country. It feeds the ignorant ...
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Brace for the boomerang of renewed tea-party rage
The IRS scandal over targeting tea-party groups is a boomerang, writes Froma Harrop. Give the tea-party people a boomerang, and moderate Republicans will get ...
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How Eisenhowers ban on gays backfired Column
"I Like Ike" cartoon from 1952. But they had no idea who President Dwight Eisenhower was. Hormones and a warm, spring day can explain the lack of interest in dead presidents. Two boys in the front row held hands the whole time I spoke.I wanted to stop the lecture and tell the affectionate boys they should thank Eisenhower if they're going to prom together. The Glee-era high school ...
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AP phone flap makes freedom of press popular Column
A new shield law has to protect the function of journalism regardless of medium or business model. Suddenly, freedom of the press is very, very popular.In the wake of revelations that the Justice Department ...
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Editorial Its a day for L.A. to send a message by yes voting
In the final days and hours before an election, even a negative campaign can ring with inspiration. It's as if candidates and their supporters remember, not a moment too soon, that they're at the center of something special. This is particularly evident on the weekend before Tuesday balloting, when candidates visit places of worship and speak to audiences in soaring tones. They try to ...
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Live and let fry Column
words of one state assemblyman , "in the interest of protecting as many people as possible." This raises an important question: Is prohibiting 16-year-olds from using tanning beds, without regard to the wishes of their parents or prom dates, in the interest of as many people as possible?Not if you live in New Jersey. Based on the evidence I've seen on MTV, it is safer to lie in a ...
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Question of the Week How should schools punish defiant kids
There didn't use to be much debate about what to do with school kids who defied their teachers by refusing to do assigned work, talking back to teachers or disrupting class - disrespectful behavior that fell short of outright violence or law-breaking. It was simple. School administrators suspended those pupils and sent them home. But that tradition may be changing. Last week, the Los ...
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Losing arguments on the Internet
In Scottsdale, Ariz., there is a restaurant so far gone that even Gordon Ramsay’s shouting cannot save it. In fact, the owners of Amy’s Baking Company so terrified the man behind "Kitchen Nightmares" that he decided to quit working with them rather than endure them any longer. If you haven’t visited the nooks of the Internet where discussion of this has been bouncing ...
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Commencement season is when we celebrate college dreams turned into reality
commencement speech Sunday at Morehouse College in Atlantaunderscored the still-vital role of historically black colleges and universities, known as HBCUs. These institutions were created when African Americans and other students of color were shut out ofAmerican universities and colleges. They remain ancriticaloption for many students, educating adisproportionate share of low-income and ...
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The cost of BGE reliability
Baltimore Gas & Electric certainly isn't likely to win any popularity contests. It secured a rate increase from the Public Service Commission in February - its second in the last three years - and turned around and filed a request for another one on Friday. And at the same time, the utility is asking the PSC for what may be unprecedented in Maryland: a surcharge on customers' ...
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Is American democracy in trouble
We know American politics are dysfunctional. But after a week of scandal obsession during which the nation's capital and the media virtually ignored the problems most voters care about -- jobs, incomes, growth, opportunity, education -- it's worth asking if there is something especially flawed about our democracy. Our circumstances certainly have their own particular disabilities: a ...
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Saving the White House from faux scandals
Here’s the White House view of the current trilogy of so-called scandals: Republicans are trying to destroy President Barack Obama’s second term by magnifying bureaucratic miscues and distorting policy realities. This isn’t without some merit. On none of these issues - the deadly debacle at the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya, the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of ...
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