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Ed reform goes nowhere when kids live in poverty, fear
"When little children live in poverty and go to school in fear, learning will happen rarely and only in the most resilient of our children." -- Christine Beagan |
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Gillette bridge a poster case of what’s wrong
"While I agree that the project to build a footbridge over Route 1 at Gillette Stadium would create short-term jobs, the end result will be a bridge that will be used infrequently by those privileged enough to attend games." -- Rob Monnes |
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Editorials
Rhode Island bishop errs
in targeting Patrick Kennedy
Bishop Thoms J. Tobin is within his rights to ask Representative Patrick Kennedy to refrain from seeking Holy Communion. Yet the standard to which the bishop is holding Kennedy for his views on abortion is unfair both to the Rhode Island congressman and Catholics in American public life more generally. (Boston Globe)
Concussions: Colleges should follow the pros
If the House Judiciary Committee can humble the National Football League into taking concussions more seriously, then it should reconvene to admonish the National Collegiate Athletic Association. (Boston Globe)
Europe’s bland new leaders
Last week, when Europe’s presidents and prime ministers finally had the chance to select an EU president and a foreign minister, they picked a couple of low-profile figures whose greatest attraction seems to be that they do not threaten to supplant the popularly elected leaders of Europe’s individual nation-states. (Boston Globe)
Columns
(Sage Stossel)Cartoonist Sage Stossel draws comparisons between the place where the Pilgrims landed and the city we know today. (Sage Stossel, Boston Globe)
Caring for the elderly
It’s ironic that at a time when thousands of Americans are struggling to find appropriate care for their failing parents, the field of geriatric medicine appears to be vanishing. (By Lewis A. Lipsitz, Boston Globe)
The candidates and the unions
In every important campaign, Massachusetts Democrats vie for union endorsements. But have you ever wondered what they promise in pursuit of the union imprimatur? (By Scot Lehigh, Globe Columnist)
Anybody but Coakley or Capuano
Two of the four Democrats in the Massachusetts Senate race, Martha Coakley and Mike Capuano, are career politicians. Surely the last thing this state needs is to elevate yet another government lifer, yet another professional officeholder, steeped in the culture of politics. (By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist)
Letters to the editor
- CRIME SCENE IN A SCHOOL ZONE Ed reform goes nowhere when kids live in poverty, fear
- CRIME SCENE IN A SCHOOL ZONE Stalwart, shaken staff at the Marshall can’t do it alone
- FOLLOWING THE STIMULUS MONEY A boatload of largesse for the privileged
- FOLLOWING THE STIMULUS MONEY UMass project deserves funding
- FOLLOWING THE STIMULUS MONEY Gillette bridge a poster case of what’s wrong
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