Your Views Do literacy skills matter?
Opinion piece by Michael Egan emphasizing that strong literacy skills are essential for individuals and communities. Highlights include personal reflections as a grandparent and retired educator, the Oswego County Literacy Coalition’s role, and 2016 family literacy focus with events and ways to get involved. Includes contact details for participation.
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Oswego County
Oswego Farmers’ Market
Michael Egan
Literacy Coalition
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Democracy tests rules as factions shape convention choices
Trump and Sanders claim a rigged system, but history shows the United States uses checks and balances to temper populist waves. The rise of superdelegates and party rules aims to balance passion with prudent, long term national interests, affecting both parties as they prepare for rough primary battles.
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Donald Trump
Fox News
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Colorado
Louisiana
South Carolina
Ted Cruz
Bernie Sanders
Hillary Clinton
Sanders
Bernie
Clinton
James Madison
New York
George McGovern
James Hunt
North Carolina
Notable April 15 historical events across eras
A compact retrospective lists key April 15 milestones from 1912 Titanic disaster to 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. It notes deaths, trials, liberations, political shifts, and quotes Arthur Ashe on true heroism, highlighting figures like Lincoln, Sacco and Vanzetti, Castro, Pot Pot, and Tsarnaev.
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Andrew Johnson
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Massachusetts
Nicola Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Bergen-Belsen
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Hyde Park
New York
Fidel Castro
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John Foster Dulles
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Hillsborough Stadium
Sheffield
England
Beijing
Tiananmen Square
Pol Pot
Khmer Rouge
Boston Marathon
Tamerlan Tsarnaev
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Arthur Ashe
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