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Despite its good intentions of ensuring that no American student falls short of academic mastery in K-12 education, the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act contained at its root an untenable equation:...
DATE: Dec. 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The United States Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Dec. 8 in a case called Evenwel vs. Abbott. It warrants attention, in part because of its potential for damaging American democracy,...
DATE: Dec. 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
There is little about American democracy that is more contentious or more vulnerable to abuse than drawing the districts that elect representatives at all levels of government. There is also little...
DATE: Dec. 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In this day, it does not take long to gather an array of information about someone. In the case of Robert L. Dear, Jr., much of it sounds like someone with mental issues. It was just Friday...
DATE: Nov. 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Does Amazon buy the jerseys for your daughter’s soccer team or sponsor your son’s Little League team? Does Amazon founder Jeff Bezos spend a lot of money at your church’s bake sale, get cookies...
DATE: Nov. 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
There have been plenty of news reports about the difficulty of attracting agricultural workers to harvest a variety of crops in this country. So, too, the tech industry’s desire for the federal...
DATE: Nov. 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
When Congress approved the Affordable Care Act in 2009, it did so at great political cost: to the Democrats who voted for it and to President Barack Obama who championed it. That was in large part...
DATE: Nov. 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
French fighter bombers have begun a response to the apparently Islamic State-orchestrated massacre of mostly French civilians in Paris on Friday night. That is an understandable reaction to the...
DATE: Nov. 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Never mind that Planned Parenthood is the country’s established leader in providing affordable reproductive and sexual health care to women and men in all 50 states. Never mind that, despite a...
DATE: Nov. 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
November 2015 would not have seemed to be the best time to ask the electorate of Montezuma County to pass two revenue measures. The Republican presidential race has been dominated by calls for...
DATE: Nov. 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Corporations, many of them financial institutions, have instituted a clever way to circumvent the courts and protect themselves from consequences that might otherwise arise from their own...
DATE: Nov. 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The ability of Americans to receive end-of-life counseling took a major step forward last week when the Obama administration authorized Medicare to compensate doctors for those sensitive but...
DATE: Nov. 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
