Opinion
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Mark L. Hopkins: Your university in the top 20Apr 15, 2015 11:00 pm - The U.S. News and World Report ranks colleges and universities each year. So does Barron's and the Princeton Review. Yet the criteria for ranking universities is so susp...
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Kent Bush: Clinton 2.0 is neither new nor improvedApr 12, 2015 11:00 pm - Hillary Clinton became the first Democrat to throw her hat into the ring for the 2016 presidential election. USA Today chose the headline, "Second chance at a first impr...
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Granlund cartoon: Hillary 2016 bidApr 12, 2015 11:00 pm - Dave Granlund cartoon on Hillary Clinton. ...
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Matthew T. Mangino: Shooting a fleeing suspect in the backApr 09, 2015 11:00 pm - Forty years ago, Tennessee state law authorized the use of deadly force to stop a fleeing suspect. The statute provided, "if, after notice of the intention to arrest the...
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Arthur I. Cyr: Britain's earthquake electionApr 08, 2015 11:00 pm - Britain will have a general election on May 7, and the contest already demonstrates dramatic profound shifts taking place in the nation's politics. Traditionally, the sy...
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Kent Bush: Facebook isn't going anywhereApr 08, 2015 11:00 pm - There is nothing more tragic than shallow analysis. I saw a report in a journalism publication this week that hailed the end of Facebook. That it will be the butt of jok...
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Mark L. Hopkins: Gun control - what would our Founding Fathers think?Apr 06, 2015 1:01 am - During a recent civic club speech I asked the question, "How many of you own a gun?" Virtually every hand in the room went up. Just below the murmur of voices I hear...
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Matthew T. Mangino: Prison deaths on the riseApr 01, 2015 11:00 pm - Last year, 35 inmates were executed nationwide. During that same period, 10 times as many inmates died in Florida's prison system alone — by means other than lethal...
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Arthur I. Cyr: Afghanistan progress is uneven but undeniableApr 01, 2015 11:00 pm - The visit of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington has dominated news headlines and discussion. Meanwhile, the visit of another leader of an important...
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Matthew T. Mangino: A clearer picture of police shootings begins to emergeMar 26, 2015 11:00 pm - A Pennsylvania police officer has been charged with murder in the death of a man who sped away after the officer noticed he had an expired inspection sticker on his vehi...