11/08/2009

Daniel J. McKee: Best medicine for R.I. a smart state funding policy
Prescribing a “crash diet” to 39 people you have never met will make some healthier, make others sick and will kill a handful. Doctors don’t prescribe in this way, for obvious reasons. Instead, they base their recommendations on detailed individual histories and a strong understanding of the symptoms. They know who they’re dealing with, they see what’s wrong and they follow the best practices for fixing the problem.

Latin America pretty low on presidential priority list
MIAMI

Ed Gillespie: Lessons for GOP from Virginia
WASHINGTON

11/07/2009

Chris Powell: In Conn., searching for a serious candidate
MANCHESTER, Conn.

Correction
Print and early Web versions of Scott Wolf’s Nov. 5 column, “Misleading business-climate rankings,” misnamed his organization. It is Grow Smart Rhode Island, not Grow Smart New England.

Bonnie Rubin: Boomers turning into outsiders?
CHICAGO

Scott Turner: The migratory edginess in all of us
A pal spent a lot of time staring out his office window this fall.

Tom Plate: How China could give paranoids a rest
Los Angeles

Howard Swint: Social Security realities
CHARLESTON, W. Va.

11/06/2009

David Miliband: U.K. leading Europe on global-warming action
LONDON

Wendy Williams: The Christian Science Monitor is still doing it right
MASHPEE

C. Everett Koop: We’ve learned that a lower drinking age is a menace
HANOVER, N.H.

Kevin Horrigan: How the Feds enable mortgage-scam artists
ST. LOUIS

11/05/2009

Correction
Print and early Web versions of Scott Wolf’s Nov. 5 column, “Misleading business-climate rankings,” misnamed his organization. It is Grow Smart Rhode Island, not Grow Smart New England.

Corrections
The Nov. 2 Stanley M. Aronson column, “Family/fertility values in the White House through history,” erroneously said that Ronald Reagan fathered no children during his second marriage. In fact, he had two children with his second wife, Nancy.

Matthew Lynn: How Britain could be a banking model
LONDON

Scott Wolf: Misleading business-climate rankings
Rhode Island generally takes a pounding in the reports ranking states’ business climates by such national organizations as the Tax Foundation and Forbes Magazine. What predictably follows such news is gloom-and-doom commentary by civic leaders along with a growing sense of hopelessness among rank-and-file Rhode Islanders.

Alexandra Early: El Salvador looking better and better
WASHINGTON

11/04/2009

Correction
Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on Nov. 4, 1995. A photo caption with Nadav Tamir’s Nov. 4 column, “To memorialize Rabin, Israel seeks peace,” had him still alive in 1998 in print and early Web editions.

Thomas Campanella: Medicare and health-care management
BEREA, Ohio

Stephen Mathis: Is the marketplace right place for health care?
NORTON, Mass.

Nadav Tamir: To memorialize Rabin, Israel seeks peace
BOSTON

E. Thomas McClanan: More voters souring on health-care reform
Kansas City, Mo.

11/03/2009

Correction
The Nov. 2 Stanley M. Aronson column, “Family/fertility values in the White House through history,” erroneously said that Ronald Reagan fathered no children during his second marriage. In fact, he had two children with his second wife, Nancy.

Roy C. Smith: Debunking big myths about Wall Street pay
NEW YORK

Edward Achorn: The day the people did tear down this wall
Freedom doesn’t get very good press in America these days. I suspect many more barrels of ink have been depleted over the recent “balloon boy” episode than the 20th anniversary of one of humanity’s greatest moments — the fall of the Berlin Wall, on Nov. 9, 1989.

Chris Powell: The Cheshire Library controversy is not about censorship
Manchester, Conn.

Robert W. McChesney/John Nichols: Subsidize reporters
WASHINGTON

Kate Brewster: Federal stimulus sending big benefits to R.I.
It could have been worse” might not be an inspirational slogan, but it aptly describes the situation in Rhode Island and other states thanks to unprecedented federal efforts to fight back against one of the worst recessions in memory.

11/02/2009

John F. Wasik: Refinancing may never again look so good
NEW YORK

Stanley M. Aronson: Family/fertility values in the White House through history
Countless books have portrayed the lives of those chosen by the American electorate to occupy the White House, rent-free, for four-year intervals. There is hardly an aspect of the family lives of the 43 past presidents that hasn’t been exhaustively scrutinized, yielding battalions of tomes, texts, exposes and doctoral theses. But this being November, when elections are customarily held, a further demographic glance at the presidential families is justified. This, too, is a time in American history when family values have become a transcendent issue, deemed by many to be more important even than national security.

Joel Brinkley: Shaming or titillating Italians
PALO ALTO, Calif.

Keven A. McKenna: ‘Unholy alliance’ with R.I. judiciary
Now that the salacious facts have been devoured, what are the salient questions?