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After tornado whats next for Moore Okla. Our view
Monday's tornado wasn't even the strongest to hit this same suburban community. The pictures make you wonder how anyone lived through the monster tornado that devastated an Oklahoma City suburb on Monday. Neighborhoods scraped to the foundations. ...
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Twister leaves tragedies miracles Other views
"Every Okie accepts that atmospheric instability is a part of our legacy." The Oklahoman,Oklahoma City, editorial: "Now come the sad stories, the heartrending deaths of young and old, the miracles and the survivals, as the black funnel wraps itself in grief. Now come the recovery, the selfless deeds, the sacrificial giving and the comforting words. This is a time when patience is ...
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Minneapolis police chiefs troubling lack transparency
Minneapolis police chief, she told the Star Tribune Editorial Board that her priorities for the department included transparency. In fact, the motto "Commitment, Integrity, Transparency" appears on most correspondence from her office. Earlier this month, she faced one of her first big tests in community relations. Two Minneapolis police officers were shot and two young men died ...
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Editorial Aaron Reardon should make resignation official
SNOHOMISH County Executive Aaron Reardon’s voluntary departure from his elected post should be acknowledged by more than a startling paragraph in a routine speech. Two months ago in a State of the County address, Reardon announced he would step down May 31. That was pretty much it. He owes county residents a more formal, and pragmatic departure. Reardon should not compound a string of ...
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Education reform is only part of answer to student achievement
A few weeks ago I received this email from a frustrated teacher: "I retired several years ago from teaching high school. I still sub. On Monday I was supposed to supervise peer editing of a research paper on the Industrial Revolution. The students had two weeks to write. I had five classes and about half the students did not have their papers. ‘I don’t like to write’ or ...
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Guest Say no to a U.S.-Canada border-crossing fee
THE U.S. government has expressed interest in possibly instituting a new border-crossing fee at land borders. At this stage, the proposal is just a request by President Obama’s administration to study the effect of collecting a crossing fee for pedestrians and passenger vehicles along the Canadian and Mexican land borders. A fee would help recover the costs of upgrades on the northern and ...
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Hospital prices baffle patients Your Say
Hospital charges vary widely from one part of the country to another. The Affordable Care Act requires hospitals to tell patients how much a procedure will ...
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Wickham Republicans relish role as Party of No
But blocking tactics aren't the same thing as providing proof of supposed administration abuses. Never lacking chutzpah, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the Chief Obstructionist of the Party of No, turned up on Meet the Press Sunday to denounce the Obama administration for creating ...
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Allow prayer at government meetings tellusatoday
On Monday, the Supreme Court announced it would take up a case about whether prayer should be allowed at government meetings. We asked our readers how they would rule. Comments are from Twitter and Facebook:Should prayer be allowed at government meetings? Absolutely! Politicians need all the help they can get. -- @VILLARREAL_14Pray at home or church. Not everyone is a Bible-thumping Christian. ...
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Boy Scouts admit gay members and move on Column
James Oliver, left, hugs his brother and fellow Eagle Scout, Will Oliver, who is gay. In February, Will and other supporters carried boxes filled with a petition to end the ban on gay Scouts and leaders to the Boy Scouts of America headquarters in ...
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Eliminate IRS discretion by returning to social-welfare groups original purpose Editorial
It's clear by this point that the Internal Revenue Service should not be in the business of figuring out what constitutes political activity and just how much of it is engaged in by any particular group claiming tax-exempt status. The easy solution to the scandal embroiling Washington is to revoke the 1959 IRS regulation that says social-welfare groups can engage in political activity, so ...
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More Latino students head to college Editorial
Seven in 10 Latino high school graduates entered college last year, the first time the rate has ever been higher than that of whites and African-Americans. That, in its way, is the good news. It's not a matter of pitting one American ethnic group against the others; it's more that such success among a group that is made up primarily of immigrants, so that most of these new college ...
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Putting Oklahoma tornado in perspective Column
Is climate change to blame? No one knows, but the numbers of events are increasing. During the live coverage of the horrific events in Moore, Okla., on Monday night, meteorologist Mike Morgan on Oklahoma City TV station, KFOR, declared that this ...
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Comprehensive immigration reform or bust
Immigration advocates gather outside the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Senate Hart Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 22, 2013, as they wait to attend the committee's hearing on comprehensive immigration reform ...
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Search for extraterrestrial life goes on even without Kepler.
CNN that the much beloved telescope, which ';has found more than 2,700 possible planets orbiting stars other than our Sun, of which more than 100 have been confirmed,'; may be nearing the end of its life now that ';the second of four of the Kepler spacecraft's reaction wheels, which aim the vessel's instruments, appears to have failed. It remains to be seen whether full ...
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No NBA for Seattle
Sacramento, Calif., Mayor Kevin Johnson, at front center, a former NBA basketball player, walks out during a break from an NBA Board of Governors meeting in Dallas on Wednesday. The board voted 22-8 against a proposed relocation of the Sacramento Kings to Seattle. (Tony Gutierrez / The Associated Press) "This is going to be short for me. I have a game to in Oklahoma City," David Stern ...
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Liberalism not at fault for recent scandals Column
If in any of these situations even one person of influence had adhered to the basic tenets of liberalism, all of these scandals could have been ...
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IRS scandal symptom of intrusive government Column
Cure is to reduce the size, cost and intrusiveness of the federal government. Our Founding Fathers were fearful of a powerful federal government because it was a threat to liberty. The recent Internal Revenue Service scandal is the foreseeable and inevitable consequence of a too powerful federal government, and the validation of the mission of the Tea Party movement that stands firmly for a ...
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Punchlines Commencement speeches and advice for grads
Hear what advice some late-night comedians offered to the Class of 2013 (and commencement speech complaints). After that, vote for your favorite joke at ...
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City envy in the county schools
Baltimore County 's are the second-oldest. The problems posed by the aging facilities in the two jurisdictions are different - the city has an overabundance of underused buildings, while the county has for years been dealing with overcrowding in one region or another - but the first step toward a solution, county schools officials hope, may be the same: developing a comprehensive ...
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Obama scandals could hurt Republicans
Republican politicians and activists can barely contain their glee at the simultaneous eruption of three major controversies about the Obama administration. Conservatives are at a low boil over the administration’s dissembling about its actions after the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The public is concerned about the targeting of conservative groups by the ...
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Minnesota Legislature largely restrained unions
"They own the place," GOP state Rep. Pat Garofalo sarcastically said of labor unions Monday, as pro-union forces loudly celebrated the House's 68-66 vote to authorize state-paid child care providers and personal care attendants to organize a union. The contentious unionization issue was indeed a big-deal, long-sought victory for the state's union movement. It's seen as ...
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Russias spy tale about American sounds fishy
expulsion as a spy of a U.S. Embassy employee in Moscow last week. The Russian Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, said that Ryan C. Fogle was caught red-handed trying to recruit one of its officers, carrying cash, a letter, a compass, a map, sunglasses and two wigs. We don’t know what Fogle was doing, but the story sounds fishy. Back in the 1970s, perhaps, a CIA case officer ...
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The Obama administrations war on whistle-blowers
That pattern was in my head as I watched ';We Steal Secrets,'; the WikiLeaks documentary at the Seattle International Film Festival. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is the admitted source of the biggest leak of official secrets in history, and pleaded guilty to 10 of the 22 charges against him. He faces 20 years in prison. He knew what he was doing, but like most whistle-blowers, believed ...
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IRS questions political groups
The IRS scandal has caused consternation on Capitol Hill. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, center, talks about the issue Thursday as Rep. Michele Bachmann, left, Sen. Rand Paul, right, and others look on. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has scheduled a hearing for next week. (Alex Wong / Getty Images) The article about the part of the tax code allowing tax-exempt ...
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