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07/05/2008

James C. Barrood: Rising prices can make you healthier
MADISON, N.J.

Joel D. Joseph: Time to fight OPEC and speculators
WASHINGTON

Scott Warren: America’s nominee; Kenya’s son
THE ONCE STABLE East African country of Kenya is currently on the edge. Despite a unity government brokered earlier this year by former U.N. Secretary Gen. Kofi Annan that ended election violence that had resulted in more than 600 killed, the economy is suffering, AIDS rates are skyrocketing, and the government remains fractured.

Scott Turner: A rural mecca in Ohio
STANDING ON A CHUNK of stone across the lake from Mecca Township, Ohio, my 7-year-old son leaned over to scoop up a large fluttering tan moth from the water’s surface. The insect beat its wings furiously, slowly moving toward shore.

07/04/2008

Nancy Kim: Playing by the rules of the cyber playground
SAN DIEGO

Bob Richie/Ari Savitsky: A simple way to encourage youth voting
GOVERNOR CARCIERI has again vetoed a bill to create a uniform voter-registration age of 16. Backed by a bipartisan, veto-proof majority in both chambers of the Rhode Island General Assembly, the bill still could become law, with an override vote.

Washington’s ‘could not tell a lie’ updated
I CANNOT TELL A LIE is a claim that doesn’t go very far today.

07/03/2008

Saul Kaplan: Budget discipline is good for R.I. economy
THE BUDGET passed by the Rhode Island General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Carcieri is good for the state’s economy. Our 2008 Economic Growth Plan made clear that the state has to get control over its spending without raising broad-based taxes. The fiscal 2009 budget does exactly that. Do not underestimate how important this is to improving our business climate and stimulating job creation.

Howard Kaloogian: Now we know who created Calif. energy crisis
CARLSBAD, Calif

Aquatic invaders may target N.E.
HOBOKEN, N.J.

Where are the R.I. board members?
VOTER PARTICIPATION is expected to increase significantly this fall, both in Rhode Island and across America. But how would Rhode Island voters feel if they learned that their votes wouldn’t count this year?

Nun of those 4-letter words!
A genteel friend who dislikes cursing has found a way to do so, without really cussing. She says it assuages her conscience regarding the swearing. When the occasion calls for a bit of taboo language, she spells out the curse instead of speaking it. She says things like “where the h-e-double-l have you been.”

07/02/2008

Dubious nuclear deal with N. Korea
SEOUL

Mortgages for Dodd; gun rights win
MANCHESTER, Conn.

07/01/2008

Claudia Rosett: U.S. should help N. Koreans flee
NEW YORK

Stephen Laffey: We need real change: R.I still confronts the heavy lifting
WELL, THE Rhode Island budget for 2008-09 is passed. Some are rejoicing that there are no broad-based tax hikes. Others shrug and say, “It’s the best they can do.” For myself, I see another budget that fails to fix the structural problems that have faced Rhode Island for far too long.

Roberta Hazen Aaronson/Liz Colon: Don’t let paint firms wiggle away
IN THE FALL of 2005, a jury of Rhode Islanders spent four months studying the impact of lead-paint poisoning on our community. They heard from world-renowned experts as well as from fellow Rhode Islanders who live daily with the harsh realities of lead poisoning. After listening to all the arguments from both sides, this jury was unanimous in deciding that lead paint in Rhode Island presents a continuing and persistent threat to the health and safety of local residents, and that the companies responsible for this public-health tragedy should be held accountable for preventing future poisoning.

A day of shame in Massachusetts
It was an unusually oppressive, cloudless summer morning in the village of Salem. At sunrise, five local women, ranging in age from 39 to 71, were brought to the town scaffolds and duly executed by hanging. The date of this infamous event was July 19, 1692, and the capital crimes for which they were convicted included blasphemous utterings and witchcraft.

Robert Kelly-Goss: Letting go is hard to do
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C.

06/30/2008

David N. Cicilline: Protecting Providence families from foreclosure crisis
HOMEOWNERS fortunate enough to finance the purchase of their homes at affordable, predictable rates have watched with concern as millions of Americans are dragged into what has become the worst mortgage-foreclosure crisis in modern history. Although individual circumstances may vary, the ripple effect of this crisis poses a very real danger to us all, and particularly to the extraordinary momentum that Providence has attained as a city over the past several years.

Bob Votava: A vision for rail in Rhode Island
IN FOUR MONTHS, The Journal has had two editorials regarding commuter-rail transportation. The first was “Tracking South County,” on Jan. 8, regarding a proposal for light rail. On May 9, came “From bike paths to trains.”

Stanley M. Aronson: Lord Byron’s physician
MOST PHYSICIANS endure lives of quiet anonymity, plying their trade for a few decades and then silently retiring to their private destinies. A handful of physicians, however, became known beyond their dispensaries because of some notable scientific or therapeutic discovery, and their names are properly immortalized. And then there are some with medical training who entertain pretensions of writing documents more lasting than their ephemeral prescriptions.

06/29/2008

Stephen C. Smith: Ways to fix Mass. municipal crisis
EVERY YEAR at this time it’s the same story. One or more southeastern Massachusetts towns face financial doomsday. Revenues are falling far short of expenses and voters must decide between massive layoffs and service cutbacks or an enormous Proposition 2½ override. Charges of mismanagement are hurled at public officials, with school departments invariably being the largest and most inviting targets. Somehow we muddle through until the next time, but the process is always painful and the end result, whatever it turns out to be, never satisfies anyone.

Tom Walsh: Maine faces energy ‘catastrophe’
NORTHPORT, Maine

Pierre Tristam: Watching al-Jazeera
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.