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Updated: November/23/2009
Luddite revival
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MAYBE being a Luddite isn't such a bad thing.
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Updated: November/23/2009
Parrots for Big Pharma
HEALTH-CARE reform was always going to be difficult to achieve but it may yet turn out to be the best that money can buy - except that it appears to be special-interest money propagandizing for what it wants, not promoting the public interest.
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Updated: November/23/2009
Earth's garbage patch
THE old saying that "one man's trash is another man's treasure" is the engine that drives everything from junk shops to flea markets, garage sales, and eBay.
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Updated: November/22/2009
All God’s children
AS SCIENCE continues to plumb the mysteries of the universe, we may be closer than we think to discovering whether life exists on other worlds.
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Updated: November/22/2009
Nursing damage at Owens
HIDDEN among Owens Community College’s vague explanations and apologies for the self-inflicted damage to its registered nursing program is this realization: The people responsible for the program understood neither the importance of accreditation nor the process for maintaining it.
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Updated: November/22/2009
Let the killing end
DOGS across Lucas County — as well as their owners — are rejoicing at the news that dog warden Tom Skeldon has decided to vacate his office by the end of the year.
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Updated: November/21/2009
Moon river?
FORTY years after the Apollo 11 landing and 37 years after the last American shook moon dust from his boots, our lunar neighbor is again looming large in the imagination.
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Updated: November/20/2009
Ditching the flu-shot line
IT MUST be nice to be a government employee and not have to live by the same rules as the rest of us lesser mortals. How else does one explain the fact that members of Mayor Carty Finkbeiner’s staff were offered, and many accepted, swine flu shots last week, even as pregnant women, children, and others at high risk for dying from the H1N1 virus, continue to wait for more vaccine to arrive?
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Updated: November/19/2009
Carty’s final budget
THERE is a certain “I told you so” quality to outgoing Mayor Carty Finkbeiner’s 2010 budget proposal that assumes a $30 million deficit, but that should not distract from the basic reality that revenue enhancements — i.e., increased taxes and fees — may be the only way to balance Toledo’s books next year.
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Updated: November/19/2009
The ambassador’s view
KARL W. Eikenberry, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, has jumped into the fray over what happens next in that incorrigible nation with reservations about increasing the U.S. troop level there.
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Updated: November/19/2009
Relief for tired truckers
WISER heads have prevailed in Washington regarding a lax trucking safety regulation the Bush administration repeatedly pushed on behalf of the industry. The Obama Administration has agreed to reconsider the rule, which safety advocates said could have led to greater driver fatigue and more accidents.
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Updated: November/18/2009
Justice on trial
ATTORNEY General Eric Holder has taken the "not in my backyard" aspect of the Guantanamo prisoner issue squarely by the horns and announced that five detainees would be put on trial in federal court in New York City, not far from Ground Zero.
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Updated: November/18/2009
Looking at 2012
IT'S NEVER too early for potential candidates to visit an important primary state, especially if you're a member of the political party on the outs. That was proven in recent days when three - count them, three - Republicans who may have 2012 aspirations on the White House either visited Iowa or announced their intention to stop by the Hawkeye State soon.
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Updated: November/17/2009
The battle continues
COMPLACENCY has its cost. It has led some people to erroneously believe that smoking is fading as a public health danger. But a new report by the government dispels that perception by showing a small but disturbing uptick in the number of American smokers.
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Updated: November/16/2009
Shots in the gulf
THE conflict involving Saudi Arabia, the government of Yemen, and Yemeni rebels risks being so difficult to understand and hard for reporters to cover that its importance will be lost on Americans.
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Updated: November/16/2009
Hoist the shield
PREPARE to strike one item from the list of disappointments that President Obama has dealt to those who expected better from a progressive administration - a federal shield law for news reporters.
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Updated: November/15/2009
A right to hope
DO JUVENILE criminals sentenced to life without possibility of parole have a constitutional right to hope? That's the question before the U.S. Supreme Court in two Florida cases.
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Updated: November/15/2009
Iraq's elections
IRAQ'S parliament moved forward on both national elections and U.S. troop withdrawal by passing an election law last weekend.
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Updated: November/14/2009
Middle East stalemate
ONE of the principal obstacles to forward movement on an agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians is the absence of unity on the Palestinian side of the table.
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Updated: November/13/2009
Flu shot fiasco
IT'S a good thing that no one from modern Wall Street was on the Titanic when it slammed into the iceberg. As the freezing waters rose, the women and children would have had to line up behind the most well-connected tycoons for a place in the lifeboats.
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