| The Root: Marches Alone Cannot Fix Education bleak report on the state of black male education. Only eight states graduate more than 70 percent of black non-Hispanic males from their high schools. Four states have a graduation rate between 60... | |
| Companies add 67K workers, but jobless rate rises • Private employers hired more workers over the past three months than first thought, lifting hopes for the weak economy ahead of the Labor Day weekend. But the unemployment rate rose in August... |
| Foreign Policy: Second Explosion Exposes Oil Industry exploded Thursday morning. Fortunately, all thirteen members of the rig crew survived and were rescued successfully. But uncertainty remains over whether we're facing a second catastrophic oil spill... |
| The New Republic: Health Care Won't Decide Election A protester urges congress not to pass the March health care overhaul. Conservatives have touted health care as the issue that will hurt Democrats most in the midterm... |
| The Nation: The Right Angle On Reid LA Weekly. Sharron Angle has no business being in the Senate, at least according to many of her fellow Nevada Republicans. The GOP mayor of Reno called Angle "wild" when he publicly endorsed her... |
| Do benefits outweigh the social costs of casinos? When the Puritans sailed from England in the 1630s to establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony, they imposed a ban on "games of chance." For a short time, the Pilgrims couldn't even possess... |
| Iraq war: mission semi-accomplished The war that began on a false pretense ended in ambiguity. President Obama declared this week that it was time for the United States to "turn the page" in Iraq. The combat mission is officially... |
| Muni: operators versus riders Muni operators seem to have lost their sense of direction. Consider their union's latest move: asking the California Public Employment Relations Board to stop Muni from restoring 61 percent of the... |
| Repowered wind farm could save Altamont birds If we told you that a poorly regulated energy facility killed thousands of birds this year, you could assume we were talking about BP's Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico. But we also... |
| Politics, not evidence, drive education reform President Obama's ambitious effort to lift the nation's schools draws heavily from the playbook employed in Chicago and New York City: Test kids more often, open more charter schools and tie teacher... |
| Schatz, Finnegan get our vote Though none envisions being a mere underling, the nine candidates hoping to be lieutenant governor all agree the job is likely to be defined more by the next governor's policies -- and his... |
| Don't use religion as a political wedge As the political season heads toward the primary election, a recognizable silliness is pervading the commentaries and news coverage. Nonsense from the right includes Maui News letter writers... |
| Primary election is developing biblical edge, and not in a good way Welcome to the Crusades, version 2.0. It certainly was predicted that the white-hot emotional debate on whether gays should be accorded full civil rights would engage religious conservatives. But... |
| Letters to the Editor The Star-Advertiser welcomes letters that are crisp and to the point (~175 words). The Star-Advertiser reserves the right to edit letters for clarity and length. Please direct comments to the issues;... |
| Longtime Partners Find Treasure Among Trash September 3, 2010 Angelo Bruno, 60, spent more than 30 years as a sanitation worker in New York City. He and his partner, Eddie Nieves, cleared more than 14 tons of garbage from the city streets... |
| A glimmer of hope Published: September 3, 2010 It has been a long time since it has been possible to be hopeful about the Middle East. But the one-year peace process undertaken this week by President Obama may... |
| Colorado ski resorts should require helmets for kids If the chill in the morning air isn't hint enough, then perhaps the spate of impending ski and snowboard equipment sales are a tip-off. Ski season will soon be upon us, and with it concerns about... |
| Over Manny: L.A. isn't very blue over Ramirez THE move of Manny Ramirez from the Dodgers to the White Sox this week was met mostly with indifference. The great baseball slugger's act was getting old here in Los Angeles. Like movie stars who... |
| True air-rail travel has a future THE Bob Hope Airport in Burbank has an opportunity to become what LAX never has - the first true rail-accessible airport in the Los Angeles region. True, the airport is actually reachable now via a... |
| The mosque: Good or bad? herald poll Controversy continues to swirl around plans to build a $100 million Islamic community center and mosque two blocks north of the World Trade Center site. It's called the Park 51 Islamic... |
| Site is a sight I have a problem with the "sight" that meets the eye as we come off the freeway onto Center Street and see the Roasted Artichoke building! Whether we are seeing it from the front or back, it is ... |
| More BYU change needed Another season of BYU football is about to begin. Has BYU addressed the problem of how uninventive and predictable the offense has become? Everyone knows what plays the BYU offense is going run... |
| Spill fix looks slippery MEDIA VOICES From the Northwest Floria Daily News, Wednesday, Sept. 1: The oil that gushed from BP's busted well in the Gulf of Mexico has dissipated, but BP's fanciful claims about the crisis... |
| BYU and the student-athlete Media attention this week has focused on the Brigham Young University football team's declaration of independence, and for good reason. With a sweetheart ESPN contract and regular matchups with Notre... |
| Mosque controversy will define us On the eve of the 9/11 terrorist attacks' ninth anniversary, the controversy over locating a mosque near ground zero in New York City shows that we must stand for fundamental freedoms even as we... |
| U.S. troop withdrawal would leave Afghan women in peril In mid-August in the northern Afghanistan province of Kunduz, a horrific, Taliban-ordered sentence was carried out against two young, unmarried Afghan lovers who had eloped against their families'... |
| The war in Iraq was necessary, and world is safer because of it President Barack Obama went on TV the other night to talk about the end of the combat mission in Iraq, and what he did not say is what very few are saying, least of all the ideologically disturbed,... |
| Rare opportunity exists now for peace in the Middle East President Barack Obama is embarking on something I've never seen before — taking on two Missions Impossible at the same time. That is, a simultaneous effort to heal the two most bitter divides... |
| Cover news, not 'olds' In this time of change at the Deseret News, and in fact always, there are way too many shrill voices. I seek to be positive and to recognize the good the Deseret News has done and its being a key... |
| Pullout to cut jobs? President Barack Obama stated that we "spent vast resources abroad at a time of tight budgets at home." I would have thought that most of the resources spent on the war have actually been expended in... |
| Glenn Beck: Theologian in Chief? Glenn Beck has undertaken a long personal journey from his troubled beginnings in Mount Vernon, Washington, to the promised land of Cable TV and hallowed ground of the Lincoln Memorial. In the... |
| Editorial: Detroit City Council should back mayor in labor talks The Detroit City Council should support Mayor Dave Bing as he seeks an end to a standoff with one of the city's major employee unions. A state fact finder has said Bing is justified in seeking pay... |
| Economic issues hurt Democrats Advertisement When the two of us talked the other day, strategist-commentator Carville showed that 18 years later he hadn't lost a quip: "More than ever, it's the economy, stupid." The polls... |
| Policies ensure more economic despair The National Bureau of Economic Research officially scored the recession as starting in December 2007. Since World War II, 65 years ago, the average duration of recessions has been 10 months, with... |
| Clarence Page: Ignorant America often casts the final and deciding vote Ignorant America often casts the final and deciding vote Are Americans getting dumber? Evidence of that dreary possibility is offered by two new polls that show an unexpected development: Since... |
| Now not time to build mosque near ground zero Ground zero, where many of our friends, relatives and countrymen lost their lives, is a place that will be hard to forget, for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. We are blessed to live with our family,... |
| Thomas Sowell: America reaching a point of no return America reaching a point of no return How did we get to the point where many people feel that the America they have known is being replaced by a very different kind of country, with not only... |
| Letter: Wayne County has other budget options The Detroit News editorial "Choose your poison" (Aug. 20) contributes to fear-mongering surrounding Wayne County retirees' so-called 13th check. It irresponsibly suggests that the county has a choice... |
| Letters: Beck rally inspired many I was a little concerned over the Glenn Beck rally last weekend in Washington, D.C., for good reason. Whenever a mass of white Promise Keepers gather to make speeches it scares me as a black... |
| Letters to the editor Concerning "Guns not safe or sane" (Letters, Aug. 28), I am amazed yet again by the ignorance gracing the letters section about gun laws in this state. California already has some of the strictest... |
| Transparency is job one T axpayers can sense when they’re being conned, which is why champagne bottles have remained corked amid reports of the many jobs “saved or created” by the federal stimulus program.... |
| Malone passes any smell test I f Massachusetts Republicans want to win what appears to be their most winnable congressional seat in years, they’d better back former state Treasurer Joe Malone in the Sept. 14 primary for... |
| Oval Office redo a taupe dud W hen President Barack Obama introduced the first budget of his presidency last February, he piously observed: “There are times where you can afford to redecorate your house, and then there are... |
| Less Barack, more Bubba “Words I never thought I’d write: I pine for George W. Bush,” Peter Beinart vented in the Daily Beast, in response to Obama’s vacillating support for the Ground Zero mosque. ... |
| Thousands of Utah families need utility-bill help (Chris Detrick | The Salt Lake Tribune) Volunteer Miriam Rosero works with people to see if they quality for Rocky Mountain Power and Questar's programs that help low income and the disabled pay... |
