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Editorials from newspapers across the country, as seen in the Traverse City Record-Eagle, northern Michigan's daily newspaper.

Other View: Funding bill helps projects

Five years into paying for two wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan, it's outrageous that so much of the financing continues to be approved outside the normal budget process, through "emergency" spending bills that must be passed, must be passed in a hurry and therefore must risk ending up as vehicles for other initiatives. ....more>>

  • Editorial: Junta's man-made disaster
    There are natural disasters, about which humankind can do nothing to prevent. Consider the catastrophic Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar.
  • Editorial: Reading program fails test
    Primary and elementary schools are right to focus on the basics, but last week brought troubling news that a multi-billion-dollar national initiative to improve reading among young students appears to have fallen flat.
  • Other View: Voter ID ruling unnecessary
    In a regrettable decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can require voters to show a photo ID at the polls.
  • Other View: Who are the real freaks?
    Members of the FLDS sect (may be) guilty of criminal behavior. But we should at least grant that withdrawal from the modern world is not entirely crazy.
  • Other View: Drive? Or eat?
    There are many ways to spend those government rebates ... With the cost of living soaring, consumers are likely to spend this extra cash on necessities.
  • Other View: Fence won't make good neighbors
    In the poem "Mending Wall," Robert Frost questions whether "Good fences make good neighbors." In the Department of Homeland Security's push to complete a 670-mile fence along the Mexican border, it's bullying and intrusiveness that are making us a bad neighbor.
  • Other View: Vodka ads Absolut demagogues
    Apparently unaware that U.S. contractors are hard at work on a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border, Swedish vodka maker Absolut produced ads featuring a map of Mexico, tweaked to include Texas, California and several other southwestern states.
  • Other View: Avoid wasteful subsidies
    For almost a year now, Congress has been debating a five-year farm bill costing upward of $280 billion to replace the one that expired in October. The business of showering federal money on farmers has always been a little grotesque. Lately, it is becoming downright dysfunctional.
  • Other View: Telecommuters save money
    Telecommuting experts say the most successful programs start at the top, when a company's leadership sees the advantages and pushes for people to work remotely.
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