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07/06/2009

Charles Kleekamp: Offshore wind: Europe surges, U.S. dawdles
SANDWICH, Mass.

Terry Gorman: Eating, chatting on cell phones, nodding off: R.I. government is not like the civic books
I GUESS THE CASKET is closing on E-verify again this year. How unfortunate for the citizens of Rhode Island. That the taxpayers will still have to bear the burden of $350 million for the social-service costs of supporting illegal aliens, and that 21,000 illegal aliens currently hold jobs while 65,000 citizens and legal immigrants are unemployed, is beyond comprehension.

Tim Rutten: Papers must charge for the Web
LOS ANGELES

Guillaume Vuillemey/Philip Stevens: European lessons: National health care hurts patients
LONDON

Stanley M. Aronson: The fall and rise of English words
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE is endowed with many more words than the average adult will ever need. Of necessity, therefore, the elements of this massive vocabulary must struggle, must prove themselves useful, to survive. They lead a hectic but unstable life; and like plants and animals, they must contend with the rigors of competitive survivorship.

07/05/2009

Rita Watson: Politics, sex and scandal
SHE WHISPERED the words, “You are so hot,” and John Edwards was smitten. We have not heard the words that triggered the extra-marital romp of Nevada’s Sen. John Ensign. And from the Mark and Jenny and Maria triangle, we have heard too many words. Gov. Mark Sanford’s affair with Maria Belen Chapur has South Carolina reeling while the rest of the nation is lusting after the contents of steamy e-mails.

Edward Correia: God and Sanford’s affair
WASHINGTON

Felicia Nimue Ackerman: ‘Always smiling’
My sweet-sixteen dress was yellow as the daffodils

Yvonne Abraham: This addiction pays its way
BOSTON

Theodore L. Gatchel: The joke that came true
IN 1998, OSAMA bin Laden declared war on the United States by means of a fatwa, stating that it is the individual duty of every Muslim to kill Americans and their allies — civilians and military.

The long route to the perfect wheels leads him to Japan
In the small Florida town where I grew up, there were two kinds of people. Some owned Fords. Some owned Chevys.

07/04/2009

Jonathan Bean: New Haven firefighters: Supreme Court overrules discrimination
OAKLAND, Calif.

Helen Farrell Allen: ‘Engaged in the cause of God and Man’: R.I. father and son paid for our liberty
IN JUNE 1775, Samuel Ward, of Westerly, delegate to the Second Continental Congress, seated in Philadelphia, dispatched a letter to his second son and namesake. It comes down to us today, held by the Rhode Island Historical Society.

07/03/2009

Peter Mandel: Going for the green, one towel at a time
IF YOU TRAVEL A LOT you get used to the drill. Hotels, motels, resorts, your favorite airline or cruise line may have snagged your business. But it is nearly impossible to find one that will leave you alone.

Anara Guard: Avoiding child deaths in parked cars
NEWTON, Mass.

Tom Sgouros: Don’t we care, now, for school services?

Tom Plate: Why Hong Kong cares a lot for Obama
HONG KONG

07/02/2009

Courtland Milloy: What really killed Michael Jackson?
WASHINGTON

C. Davis Fogg: My electro-shock-therapy days
I’M NOT QUITE SURE how to tell this story. It was not as bad as I thought it would be, but it was still terrifying.

Richard A. Levins: Unions are good for rural economies
MINNEAPOLIS

07/01/2009

Craig Hooper: America’s fading legacy in the Pacific
MONTEREY, Calif.

Andres Oppenheimer: Chile should tout First World status
MIAMI

Dominic V. Monti: Franciscans plunge into world
EARLIER THIS YEAR, the Franciscan Friars of Holy Name Province took an unusual route in reaching out to young men about considering a life of prayer and spiritual service in our Catholic faith community.

Michael Kinsley: Care already rationed by money, power
WASHINGTON

Stanley M. Aronson: Birth of a nation
The American colonies had been at war with Great Britain since April 1775, some 15 months, before their representatives at the Continental Congress, in Philadelphia, agreed upon a statement summarizing their reasons, philosophic and pragmatic, for severing ties.

06/30/2009

Peter Morici: Fixing China trade key to U.S. recovery
COLLEGE PARK, Md.

Doris M. De Los Santos/Juan Garcia: Immigrants –– make sure you’re counted
WE ARE WRITING in response to the June 6 story by Karen Lee Ziner, “Down for the count: Minister urges undocumented to boycott Census” and to oppose the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and/or any local or national movements that urge the undocumented-immigrant members of the Latino community to boycott the 2010 Census until Congress achieves comprehensive immigration reform.

Felicia Nimue Ackerman: Better late than hasty
WHEN I WAS in college, I made a discovery that changed my life. I discovered that I could turn in assignments late.

W. Edward Massey: Bankers’ promises
STAMFORD, Conn.