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05/18/2008

Statewide transportation would cost less, help kids more
Luckily, the three kids were attending Highlander Charter School when the mom’s marriage began to fall apart. As a charter that draws from many districts, the school could keep the children enrolled no matter where they lived. Unlike other Highlander moms I’ve spoken with, this one barely mentioned the qualities of the popular school. Instead she talked about being profoundly grateful that the school provided a stable environment for her kids during the dark period when they moved several times to different living situations in different communities. The kids continued to learn, among friends and familiar teachers, even amid the upheaval of divorce. The mom has settled since, and things are better. Educational stability greatly helped.

05/16/2008

Bill Keep: Greedy pill distributors confound Economics 101
HAMDEN, Conn.

05/15/2008

Froma Harrop: Obamaians pile upon Clinton
MANY in the Obama camp, having out-foxed the apparently not so “formidable Clinton machine,” can’t seem to get the hang of winning gracefully. They feel a need to drive a stake in Hillary Clinton’s reputation, then dance. If they were smart, they’d heap praise on Clinton and let her finish out the race, however she chooses to do so.

05/14/2008

David A. Mittell Jr.: Obama inspires; vet him anyway
MY CONSERVATIVE friends seem to take my opinions to be on the borderline between acceptable and suspect. But they rose almost as one to object to my objection –– expressed in last week’s column (“Re-explaining the campaign,” May 7) –– to equating Barack Obama with Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. I characterized the analogy as “based on race, obviously so; and it’s not even a good analogy.”

Robert Whitcomb: Almost famous for a day
The renown of reporters is obviously far more fleeting than of most of the heroes and rogues they report on. That is as it should be: Journalists are but small sharks ever circling a luxury liner, living off day-old food thrown overboard while hoping that the whole ship goes down so they can consume some overfed celebrity passengers, too. Sadly, the ship usually makes it to port.

05/13/2008

Edward Achorn: Should we let managers manage schools?
NICK GORHAM, an articulate, droll and gentlemanly state representative (not an oxymoron, it seems), has a way of stirring things up at the General Assembly. He was one of the champions of the separation-of-powers reform, which passed with 78 percent of the vote in 2004.

05/11/2008

Froma Harrop: McCain’s big chance to win Democrats
JOHN McCAIN HAS used these weeks of Republican calm to dive into the Democratic lunch pail. This strategy clearly assumes a Barack Obama candidacy. If demographics are destiny — as the political sages keep telling us — Democratic demographics may offer some choice cuts to the presumed Republican nominee. By dumb luck, Republicans have chosen their one candidate who projects a moderate image, hasn’t alienated Latinos and offers an appealing life-story to boot.