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Editorial Preschool benefits trickle up
EARLY-learning programs offer a cost-effective way to prepare young learners for success in school and in life. Preschool is a benefit that trickles up. Research shows high-quality preschool saves school districts about $3,700 per child over the K-12 years. The National Institute for Early Education Research annual look at states’ early-learning efforts gives Washington high marks for ...
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Blocking Syrian Refugees Isn’t the Way
The refugee burden that Syria’s neighbors are shouldering is heavy and should not be borne alone. But keeping people fleeing for their lives in buffer zones inside Syrian borders risks trapping rather than protecting ...
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Is This the Most Disgusting Atrocity Filmed in the Syrian Civil War
Even by the standards of Syria's ever-worsening stream of atrocity and massacre videos, the latest footage from the country cannot fail to shock for its sheer savagery. ...
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Barack Obama must act like a true leader | Observer editorial
It is always hard for an American president in the second term, but both his country and the world need Obama to show strength and courage and put scandal behind ...
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Editorial Google could do itself some good
That means being as aggressive and imaginative as - and preferably more aggressive and imaginative than - the tax specialists who work for accountancy firms and the companies they advise. Inevitably, this is a competition at which lower-paid public servants are always going to be at a disadvantage to their rivals in the private sector, but HM Revenue & Customs have one thing in their favour, ...
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Counterpoint Home care workers in Minnesota deserve a union vote
Shaquonica Johnson was comforted by fellow home-care worker Rochelle Turan while testifying at a hearing on the possible unionization of home-based care ...
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A northern Minnesota tale The orchid and the otter
One late Minnesota afternoon, as summer sanctified the northern latitudes, Secret Lake was inspirited with relentless light. Eleven days before the summer solstice - our seasonal pentecost - my wife, Pam, and I hiked down to the water, paddles in hand. It was 8:30 p.m., but the forest path was warm and enriched, sunlight still penetrating the canopy of leaves and needles at the edge of the bog. ...
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Sturdevant Tax reform in Minnesota Some other year perhaps
Mark Dayton signed the bill that makes same-sex marriage legal in Minnesota after Aug. 1. But this was supposed to be the tax reform session - or so I thought in January. Back then, DFLer Dayton cast himself as a tax-policy modernizer, willing to expend some personal political capital to retrofit the state tax code for today’s economy. In today’s economy, the rich get richer while ...
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Minneapolis schools chief deserves support in driving change
When groups representing educators discuss the achievement gap, they often say, "We know what works.’’ Far too often, though, that knowledge fails to produce results. Minnesota schools in general - ...
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Vikings stadium design Dog days are over. Darth days ahead
This handout released by the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority and the Minnesota Vikings shows the new Minnesota Vikings stadium in this rendering done by HKS Sports and Entertainment Group and released Monday, May 13, 2013. The yet-to-be-named facility, which will open in 2016 and replace the Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis, will have a translucent roof and louvered front windows to let ...
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With Democrats Minnesotans will feel the pain
Best Buy and other stores could be more expensive in the Twin Cities because of an additional sales tax. And the list goes on. Democrats promised that they were going to "tax the rich." But in the final few days of session, we're finding out that what they actually intend to do is tax nearly everybody and everything. Democrats have announced a plan to raise taxes and fees by ...
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Minnesota Legislature Well theres always 2014
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton delivered his State of the State address before a joint session of the Minnesota Legislature in the House Chambers at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn. on ...
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Israel Turkey and gas
Word is that both Israel and Turkey are seriously entertaining the notion of constructing an undersea pipeline to deliver Israeli natural gas to Turkey and, perhaps, hence to Europe.The Turks reportedly have expressed willingness to foot part of the estimated $2 billion bill. Such pipelines exist elsewhere in the world, most notably from Russia and from Norway.It is becoming evident that a ...
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I am a Lymphoedema Sister
Contributed by : Carol Gould I thought I would re-publish this article from a year ago as local UK elections loom on 2 May. The present hysteria surrounding the rise and rise of UKIP, the United Kingdom Independence Party, fascinates me as an American because the Tea Party rose from disatisfaction with both Democrats and Republicans. The Tea Party now has six US senators and helped shift ...
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Dubais child labor complicity
To ensure that gold businesses in Dubai respect and protect rights, due diligence procedures should be made mandatory and include measures to check for child ...
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Editorial | Notebook Before You Buy That T-Shirt
The deaths and injuries of thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh raise the question of how American and European consumers might assert their power to change appalling factory conditions half a world away. Stop buying clothes made in Bangladesh? Look for labels from other countries, like Indonesia, where conditions might be a little better? Seek out ...
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Editorial Climate Warnings Growing Louder
The news that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the most important global warming gas, have hit 400 parts per million for the first time in millions of years increases the pressure on President Obama to deliver on his pledges to limit this ...
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Editorial The Immigration Bill Presses On
When the Senate Judiciary Committee meets on Monday to resume marking up an immigration bill, it will have two weeks of solid achievement to build on. The bipartisan ...
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Editorial Beyond the Brady Rule
Fifty years ago, in the landmark case Brady v. Maryland, the Supreme Court laid down a fundamental principle about the duty of prosecutors ...
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Op-Ed Columnist I.R.S. Investigation Means More Taxing Times for Obama
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Op-Ed Guest Columnist Beware Social Nostalgia
AS a historian, ...
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Op-Ed Columnist Show Us Your Woe
IN the service of what ...
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Struggle Against Dire Conditions for Iran Workers
On April 29, just ahead of International Workers' Day, Iranian authorities summoned Behnam Ebrahimzadeh to discuss the terms of his temporary release from Tehran's notorious Evin prison. Ebrahimzadeh, a labor activist and blogger who is almost three years into a five-year prison sentence, was given leave from the prison after many pleas to care for his ailing son, who suffers from a ...
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Burma the EU has been too quick to lift sanctions
Uzbekistan: A Massacre That Should Not Fade Into History Eight years after the Andijan massacre, Uzbekistan remains a human-rights disaster. When will the EU change its strategy towards ...
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Op-Ed Columnist Loneliness and Suicide
OVER the last decade, the United States has become a less violent country in every way save one. As Americans commit fewer and fewer crimes against other ...
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Turkmenistan's new olympic development could be blessing or curse
Work has finally begun on the massive Ashgabat Olympic complex development, a US $5 billion project that aims to enhance the standing of the capital city when Turkmenistan makes a bid to host the Olympic Games.
The sports complex being built in Ashgabat will be the largest and most state-of-the-art of its kind in Central Asia, underscoring Turkmenistan’s position as a regional power due to the country’s extensive natural gas and oil reserves, while its completion will also illustrate the growing presence of the country in the international community. Read more
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