Contributors

11/23/2009

John O. Harney: The joys of New England campus visiting
BOSTON

Neil D. Steinberg: Teach for American can help teach for Rhode Island
Chances are, if you’re a college student or recent graduate, you’ve heard of Wendy Kopp. Teach for America, the organization she founded, received more than 35,000 applications last year from young people aspiring to become entry-level teachers in underserved schools across America. Among these applicants were 230 college seniors in Rhode Island, including 14 percent of the Brown graduating class and 4 percent of seniors at Providence College.

Joseph Z. Duke III: Saving the Everglades means busting some political dams
PALMETTO BAY, Florida

Bernard Sanders/Maurice Hinchey: It’s past time to break up U.S. bank behemoths
WASHINGTON

Stanley M. Aronson: Clichés in defense of platitudes
Most sayings are pleasant, sometimes informative, but ultimately forgettable. Occasionally, though, they may be witty, aphoristic even epigrammatic; or contrariwise, they may be thoroughly commonplace or tiresome. And with some effort they can deteriorate further, petrifying into platitudes.

11/22/2009

Otis W. Brawley: Despite the report, let’s stick with mammograms
WASHINGTON

Jean Lesieur: The French ask: What is a nation?
PARIS

Chris Powell: Popular Rell is leaving and Conn.’s still a mess
MANCHESTER, Conn.

11/21/2009

Timothy M. Rivinus: The facts are in on Major Hasan
President Merkin Muffley: “There’s nothing to figure out, General Turgidson. This man is obviously a psychotic.”

Scot Lehigh: Mike is mad as heck and he’s not going to take it anymore
BOSTON

Roy Little: ‘Public option’ already works well in insurance
WASHINGTON

Doug Bandow: A crisis in Honduras? That’s their problem
WASHINGTON

Scott Turner: Fall makes me think back to my father fishing for bluefish
Last week, on a day when the mid-November temperature approached 70 degrees, I stopped to observe upper Narragansett Bay, which looked as still as a bedspread.

11/20/2009

Dick Polman: Republicans’ staggering hypocrisy on mandate
PHILADELPHIA

Harold Meyerson: Greedy U.S. elites made China trade problem
WASHINGTON

Jeff Blanchard: Rich summer folk and their strange Wampanoag bedfellows
BREWSTER

11/19/2009

Michael F. Sabitoni: R.I. at critical juncture for green-energy jobs
This past legislative session, the Rhode Island General Assembly passed a landmark law establishing long-term contracting standards for renewable energy (“LTCSRE”), a bill aimed at encouraging renewable-energy projects, enhancing the state’s environmental quality and creating jobs.

Marianne M. Myles: Cape Verde: Inspiring African success story
PRAIA, Cape Verde

11/18/2009

Kathleen Sebelius: Patience, please: More H1N1 vaccine coming
WASHINGTON

Michael F. Cannon: PelosiCare should come with a warning label
WASHINGTON

John R. MacArthur: History promises disaster in Afghanistan for blind America
If President Obama has ever heard of William L. Shirer, chances are it’s in connection with Nazi Germany. Nowadays, you can’t make assumptions about what people under 50 know and don’t know, but it’s a safe bet Obama recalls Shirer’s most famous book, “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” even if he hasn’t read it.

11/17/2009

Tricia K. Jedele: Running the landfill is the responsibility of government
In the Nov. 3 Journal article “State explores feasibility of selling or leasing Central Landfill,” Michael O’Connell, executive director of the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation, was quoted as saying, “We’re just a landfill. Why is government so involved?”

Bogdan Kipling: On to Copenhagen! On second thought, forget it
WASHINGTON, D.C

Rick Brooks/Linda McDonald: Another wake-up call on wrong-site surgeries
The recent news of yet another wrong-site surgery at Rhode Island Hospital has left us further dismayed, but increasingly motivated to find real solutions to the seemingly intractable problem of medical errors.

Avi Shafran: Who is a Briton?
NEW YORK