Columns

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Marcia Neal Column January 04, 2009

The Daily Sentinel is right to call for real school reform immediately. It has been 25 years since “A Nation At Risk” was published, followed by wave after wave of well-meaning but ineffective reform. What has been the one missing ...

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John Suthers Colulmn January 03, 2009

Editor’s note: At least 13 state attorneys general from around the country are examining the legality of the so-called “Nebraska Compromise,” which helped win passage of the health care reform bill in the U.S. Senate. ...

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Henrietta Hay Column January 02, 2009

“January 2, 2009.” It never really occurred to me, one way or the other, that I would write that date some day. After all, it has taken 95 years to get here. On a recent morning, some friends and I had a conversation about our ...

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Gary Harmon Column January 01, 2009

2008. It’s finally, finally gone. But not so far gone as to be forgotten. It’s time to give out a few awards for the last year, which pretty obviously ended with a bang, not a whimper. The This Woman Needs A Man Like a Fish ...

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Rick Wagner Column January 01, 2009

The past year appears to have ended as a year of contrasts. And this week has shown a very obvious one between the once and future Senate hopeful from New York: You know, ummm, you know, Caroline Kennedy, who when asked why she wanted to be a ...

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Dick Maynard Column December 31, 2009

Prognostications. Somewhere in the columning bible is a commandment dictating no scribe worth his salt lets the year’s final week pass without his or her offering a take on what to expect in the year ahead. Are the “picks to ...

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Bill Grant Column December 30, 2009

Tomorrow night families, friends and strangers across America will raise a glass to “auld lang syne,”  ceremoniously welcoming the New Year. But for many of us, 2008 will not truly begin until Jan. 20, when Barack Hussein ...

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Alex Taylor Column December 28, 2008

This will be my last column as publisher of The Daily Sentinel. As of Jan. 1, I will be assuming my new role as publisher of the Palm Beach Post in Florida. Going from the high country of western Colorado to the coast line of southern Florida ...

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Rick Wagner Column December 26, 2009

I hope everybody had a merry Christmas. I also hope we didn’t offend anybody by even saying that, since we seem to be in the middle of a culture war where just wishing somebody “Merry Christmas” seems to be a shot across the ...

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Alex Taylor Column December 26, 2009

Last week I wrote of the demise of good English in favor of the rise of presidential campaign lingo — much of which makes virtually no sense.  If I had just waited a day or two, I would have had a great addition to this ...

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