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Minnesota Legislature yields mixed results
No trumpets blared or crowds cheered Monday night as the 2013 Legislature’s regular session drew to a close. Weary legislators are expected to troop home today to confront mixed responses to the year’s labors. We share that ambivalence, and concede that it may spring from expectations that were too high. This year’s return to all-DFL control at the Capitol after 22 years of ...
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Catholic nuns put faith before church hierarchy
Recently, opponents of deportations held a rally to commemorate the five-year anniversary of what they call an unjust immigration sweep of 389 people in a kosher meat-packing plant in Postville, Iowa. Last July, three people breached security and entered a nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn., housing highly enriched uranium, where they spilled blood at the site before being arrested. Last ...
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The Starfleet Divide The Star Trek Universe Revisits One Of Its Great Debates
Abrams' hyperactive movie talked fast and walked fast -- when it wasn't at a dead run. Indeed, in its breakneck pace and its camera-flare and whip-pan-loving ...
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At L.A.s UnCabaret 25 Years Of Letting It All Hang Out
Beth Lapides (with music director-producer Mitch Kaplan) is the founder and ringmaster at UnCabaret, a Los Angeles comedy institution that's marking its 25th anniversary this ...
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Sandwich Monday The Saltwich
panel of experts convened by the Institute of Medicine says limiting salt below a certain amount may not really do us any good. Around here, we take this to mean: Eat as much salt as you can or you'll die. So, we've created The Saltwich, made with the saltiest foods we could find. Salami, bacon, pickles and salt-and-vinegar potato chips, on salty pretzel bread. Salt to ...
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The Little Metronome That Wouldnt
keep doing that. Metronomes not in sync with the table have their motions dampened, then countered, until they do it "the table's way." Eventually all the metronomes come into alignment. That's what you saw in our small, chamber music version. Now we're going symphonic. This time, we'll have a much bigger table with 32 brightly colored metronomes -- a Mormon ...
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Mel Brooks Im An EGOT I Dont Need Any More
Comedian, writer, director, producer and actor Mel Brooks is one of only 11 people to have won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. Others in the elite EGOT club include Mike Nichols and Whoopi ...
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Auditing the IRS scandal for details
story Sunday in The New York Times by three reporters describes the implosion that occurred when the Cincinnati IRS office was flooded with 60,000 paper applications seeking to qualify for a niche category of political activity and tax avoidance. The goal was 501(c)4 status that does not require registering as a political action committee or disclosing donors. All of the anger and frustration ...
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Consumer-driven health care vs. Obamacare
Froma Harrop not only gets her facts wrong on consumer-driven health care; she also does not understand the limitations of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare ...
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Investigation of the Benghazi attack
The real scandal of Benghazi ," Opinion, May 18]. She claims that Republican Rep. Darrel Issa's tenacity in pursuing and uncovering Benghazi facts is " … dishonoring the memory of Ambassodor Chris Stevens and three other Americans by making a political circus out of their deaths." Never is there even a mention of the Obama administration throwing Susan Rice under the ...
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Tim Eyman in Spokane speaking for the rights of the left
Tim Eyman in Olympia, February 2013Jon Lok / The Seattle Times The state's master of tax limitation by ballot measure is no lefty, and voters of a progressive stripe typically scorn anything with his name on it. But Tim Eyman of Mukilteo says he’s for the people’s right to vote on ballot measures whether right or left. That is an issue in Spokane, where the progressive ...
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Bellevue City Councils ethics challenge
The Bellevue City Council is responsible for the land use and zoning rules spurringthe city’s massivegrowth. Seattle Times business reporter Amy Martinez reports ...
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Editorial First Amendment rumble
However, in order to gather evidence against Kim, FBI Agent Reginald Reyes filed an affidavit in federal court indicating there was evidence that Rosen (who was not mentioned by name in the affidavit) had broken the law "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator." Nearly four years later, Rosen has not been charged with a crime, but indicating there was a ...
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Chapman Liz Warrens college loan plan a loony idea
In the 21st century, we have U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s "Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act," which would set the interest rate on student loans at the rate at which banks borrow from the Federal Reserve. The justification - if you can call it that - is that if the Federal Reserve lends money to banks at less than 1 percent, the federal government shouldn’t charge ...
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Henry Payne The zero-emission vehicle myth
made it into the black , earning $11 million profit on revenue of $562 million in the first quarter of ...
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Obama — now and then
- White House aide Dan Pfeiffer, responding over the weekend to questions about where the president was when our ambassador in Benghazi was under attack. "What difference, at this point, does it ...
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Samuelson Is health care spending slowdown for real
"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."-- Stein's Law , after economist Herbert Stein (1916-1999)We all know that Stein's Law will someday apply to health-care spending, which has risen from 5 percent of the economy (gross domestic product) in 1960 to almost 18 percent now. What we don't know is how and when its share of the economy will stabilize. Will this ...
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Letters The buck stops here
Hearing of the administration's recent scandals, it's refreshing to remember President Truman who kept a placard on his desk which said: "The Buck Stops ...
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My view Why moderates lost the caucus vote
The real truth is conservative dominance has made moderates uneasy both because of public policy and their inability to be elected through the Republican Party process. Because the Republican Party has not voluntarily responded to moderate policies and candidates, they are trying to compel the party system to ...
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Letters Government health care
Lew Jeppson stops short of the conclusion he should have drawn ("The real death panel," May 18). If you don't want death panels, don't put government in charge of your health ...
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Letters Beware slippery slope
Was it irony or poetry that resulted in Hyrum Anderson's letter "Gun logical fallacies" being placed on the page adjacent to Michael Gerson's column about the recent exposure of IRS abuses of power ("IRS abuses bring out the libertarian in each of us," May 14)? Anderson is right as far as his stating that "tyrannical oppression is not the inevitable outcome of ...
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A definitive review of Colorado gun laws
Weld County Sheriff John Cooke, left, speaks during a news conference last Friday at which he announced that 54 Colorado sheriffs are filing a federal civil lawsuit against two gun-control bills passed by the Colorado legislature. (Brennan Linsley, The Associated Press) Gun-control opponents who raised a hue and cry during the recent legislative session, claiming their constitutional rights were ...
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Editorial Michigan becoming a smart investment
Money attracts money, and Michigan is attracting a lot more venture capital today than it has in a decade and at a faster pace than the rest of the nation. A new report from the Michigan Venture Capital Association says the state jumped to the 15th spot in terms of business accelerator activity, up from 25th last year. And while national venture capital investment dropped 10 percent, in Michigan ...
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Our choice U.S. energy renaissance or lights out
The Palisades Nuclear Plant in Covert Township, Mich., is shown in a undated photo provided by Consumers Energy. The license for the power plant, which is 35 miles west of Kalamazoo in Van Buren County will expire in 2011. Consumers Energy and Nuclear Management have formally asked the NRC to extend the license through 2031. (Jeanette ...
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Readers Skunk Works stinks
Will skunk works even work? Whatever happened to Gov. Snyder's "best practices," "dashboard" state government? Whether it's a Washington D.C. scandal or ...
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