Opinion
Readers come down on both sides of the issue in IRS scandal
I am retired from my position of senior disability evaluation specialist for the Social Security Disability program in West Virginia since 2005.My experience with working directly with federal laws and regulations in that specialized program informs me that federal agencies may create specialized work groups when dealing with an application ...
‘Don’t think for a moment journalists don’t feel guilt or disgust’
I went to bed in great spirits Monday night.The nine-year odyssey was over for the families of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. The girls were safe. Their nightmare was over.But I awoke at 3 a.m. with a chill. A spooky thought strangled me.Did I once walk past that ...
Classical music chases some people away
What, oh what, would Mozart think of all this?We spotted a story from the Columbus Dispatch the other day about how administrators at the city’s Downtown YMCA have found they can drive away loiterers and potential trouble-makers by playing classical music (loudly) on the sidewalk out front. “There’s something about ...
Why do most public policies fail?
Q: So after the recession hit, there was a lot of discussion about government collaboration. Was that just talk?Krebs: If I hear one more local government official say, “You don’t understand … We’re already collaborating everywhere we possibly can,” I will absolutely say something unkind. If you were to ask ...
Fresh ideas
More from Pacific Standard online magazine, on environmentalist Curtis Baffico’s efforts to find a way to recycle 2 billion pounds of cigarette butts: “Baffico isn’t a lone cigarette-butt innovator. In a 2010 study published in the journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Chinese researcher(s) … showed that extracts from cigarette ...
What should U.S. do about North Korea?
Our readers have told us that national security remains one of their top concerns and areas of interest. So we’re anxious to find out what you think about the developing situation with North Korea.As you probably already know, tensions between North Korea and South Korea have been escalating since North ...
More views on traffic cameras
Letters to the editor‘Too intrusive on the free movement’Traffic light cameras are like having a law enforcement officer at every intersection, 24 hours a day, recording every movement of every vehicle. It is a huge step toward the automatic technology surveillance and control of every individual in our society by ...
Where’s all the concern about global warming?
Is spring actually here? We are definitely getting tired of snow stories. It’s time for some sun. And then the drought stories! At which point we will ask ourselves: What ever happened to worrying about global warming? You may remember what a big deal President Barack Obama made about climate ...
GOP must figure a way out of mess left by Iraq War
Is the Iraq war to blame for the mess we are in? Now, I should qualify that question by explaining “mess” and “we.” By “mess,” I mean the dawn of Barack Obama’s second term, the predictably catastrophic rollout of Obamacare, the exploding debt and deficit, the stimulus boondoggles, etc. By ...
We’re failing our children, like Jonylah and Antonio
Jonylah Watkins died on a Tuesday.She was with her father, who was sitting in a minivan in Chicago on the night of March 11 when someone opened fire. Doctors worked 17 hours trying to repair what a bullet had done to her body, but to no avail. She died the ...
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