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Put kids, not teachers first

Tuesday, 24 April 2012 12:19 Fred Easter

NOBODY ASKED ME, but I remember now why I was so sorry that Chris Stewart and T Williams left the Minneapolis School Board. The Board of Education, the community, and all Minneapolis school kids should be sorry, too. Those two men brought a level of thoughtfulness and professionalism to the Board that has not been matched by two of their replacements.

The envelope please: Who will win, who deserves to win, who was snubbed

Thursday, 21 February 2013 13:09 Kam Williams

Lincoln opened the awards season as the odds-on favorite to win the Academy Award for Best Picture by virtue of its landing the most nominations. But the snub of Ben Affleck in the Best Director categ...

Insight for aspiring writers

Sunday, 26 August 2012 23:35 Timothy Houston

Because I have been fortunate enough to write and self-publish two books, aspiring writers often have questions for me. The questions are many and varied, but the most common are these. How did I get ...

America’s wars on American people

Friday, 27 April 2012 14:07 Fred Easter

Nobody asked me, which is probably a good thing, because I’m forgetting things these days. For example, there was a Protestant Bishop in Germany around the time Hitler was making many Germans - and no...

Reverend Jackson on Annual Economic Summit

Monday, 11 February 2013 14:53 Kam Williams

The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, is one of America's foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Over the past forty years, he ha...

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