Editorials
May 23, 2013 | 
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“Sometimes nothing is a pretty cool hand.” — The title character in the 1967 film “Cool Hand Luke”
On occasion, government acts best when it sits still. That happened in the recently completed session when the Alabama Legislature did not tamper with the state’s College and Career Ready Standards.
May 17, 2013 |
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Late in the 19th and early in the 20th century, miners in the United States went on strike for better pay, shorter hours and safer working conditions. Mine owners brought in strikebreakers, men who were so desperate for work that they would risk their lives to reach the job and risk them again to do the work. Most of the strikebreakers were black.
May 16, 2013 |
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Alabama politics has never had a shortage of self-proclaimed conservatives. Whether they had a “D” or an “R” behind their name, most office-seekers in the state self-apply the label “proud Alabama conservative.”
May 16, 2013 |
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Bipartisanship is not automatically a good thing, especially when it comes from the Alabama Legislature.
May 16, 2013 |
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Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, wrote a disturbing message Thursday. “Today ... the Army is failing in its efforts to combat sexual assault and sexual harassment,” he said. Obviously.
May 15, 2013 |
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Somebody finally found the emergency brake on Alabama’s school tax-credit monstrosity and gave it a good yank.
May 15, 2013 |
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The tri-state water war began in 1990 when Georgia, Florida and Alabama could not resolve the question of how much water Georgia could take from lakes Lanier and Allatoona, which are federal reservoirs in the Peach State.
May 14, 2013 |
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Americans learned this week that the Department of Justice seized two month’s worth of phone records from Associated Press reporters in 2012. The reviews are in, and they are brutal.
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