School choice idea deserves a chance
U S senators Dan Coats and Joseph Lieberman back a trial of school choice enabling low income families to use educational certificates for public private or religious schools. Milwaukee’s voucher program shows mixed results but higher parental satisfaction and lower taxpayer costs. The proposal would fund 10 to 20 demonstration projects to test the concept nationwide.
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U.S. Senate
Joseph Lieberman
Dconn
Dan Coats
R-Ind
U.S
America
Coats and Lieberman
Milwaukee
Paul Peterson
Harvard University
Evers-Williams Installed as NAACP Chairwoman
Myrlie Evers-Williams takes the helm of the 86 year old NAACP amid calls to restore morale and reform. The civil rights group faces a budget deficit and past misconduct allegations while aiming to boost youth membership and leadership training.
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Evers-Williams
NAACP
National Association For the Advancement of Colored le
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Medgar Evers
Mississippi
Ms. Evers-Williams
Criminalizing politics and the clash over special prosecutors
Abner Mikva criticizes the expanding use of special prosecutors as a threat to checks and balances. The piece notes Bush’s Iran Contra pursuit, Clinton’s rising legal costs, and the renewed mandate for prosecutors, arguing the policy risks political weaponization and legal overreach.
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Abner Mikva
American Bar Association
George Bush
Caspar Weinberger
Lawrence Walsh
Clinton
Ronald Reagan
A Critique of Starr and Prosecution Powers
Paul Greenberg denounces Kenneth Starr and the special prosecutor system, likening it to political zealotry. He argues that unchecked discretion risks government by men over law, praising restraint only in theory while warning of accountability erosion in modern investigations.
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Kenneth Starr
White House
Mother Teresa
Duke Law School
Starr
Lawrence Walsh
Donald Smaltz
Mike Espy
Tyson Foods
Arkansas
Mr. Starr
Louis D. Brandeis
Paul Greenberg
Arkansas Democrat- Gazette
Little Rock
Names on Walls in Prague Synagogue Echo Nazi Persecution
Jeff Greenfield reports on a Prague tour group as 77 297 names are painted on the Pinkas synagogue wall. The project recalls victims from Terezin and the Czech and Slovak Jewish communities, linking memory to the reopened monuments and continual life around the sites.
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Prague
Czech Republic
Pinkas Synagogue
Israel
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
Klausen
Pinkas
Terezin
Jeff Greenfield
A Self-Described Shirt Saga in Apex
In rural Apex a shopper recounts a chaotic dry cleaner run over eight weeks. A $38 card bought $110 value led to missing shirts, misapplied claim checks, and a chaotic back and forth with clerks. The piece blends humor with frustration as shirts vanish and reappear amid bungled records.
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Raleigh
Apex
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John R. Graham
Patrick Holmes
Dennis A. Frazier
Jerry Wicks
Vermont
Royster
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Gregory
OY Universa
Bill Clinton
Walsh
O’conner
Paul O'Connor
North Carolina
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