Year-round school worth a look
As if our hyper president didn't have enough to do, he's now making a case for year-round schools. Last week, Barack Obama and his education secretary, Arne Duncan, made their strongest pitch to date for wholesale changes in the school calendar.
Their timing might have been exquisite: As summer vacation's second month approaches, many a mom and dad despair of their bored slugabed kids — some, no doubt, figuring the kids might as well be in school where, perhaps, they won't flush the past year's learning from their minds.
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Declaration's signers: so much to lose
Hollywood directors have done justice enough to the language issued this day in 1776: They could hardly miss with a cry for rights to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" and the Declaration of Independence's final words ratified by 56 men who "mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
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At Santa Fe Opera, a superb season begins
As if the national economic downturn weren't challenge enough, the Santa Fe Opera opens tonight amid an early beginning to our region's rainy season.
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A clean-car victory for N.M., nation
We figured all along that there was more than one way to skin the car-emissions cat: Even as we applauded New Mexico's environment secretary and attorney general for joining California's lawsuit seeking state power to set auto-exhaust standards, we couldn't help thinking Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency were better places to settle the state-federal issue.
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From The Santa Fe New Mexican:
July 5, 1959: The New Mexican can testify through personal experience that its beating of the drums for more efficient tax collection is getting results. Among those caught in Revenue Commissioner Johnny Walker's drive to get all the taxes from everybody as demanded by The New Mexican was — you guessed it — The New Mexican. When the auditor worked out all the figures and added on the penalty and interest the bill added up to $2,200. The newspaper didn't figure it was in any position to argue. "After all," commented General Manager Emory Bahr, "we asked for it."
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Sorrow and anger, those two mainstays of grief, become amplified tenfold by the circumstances of this situation — youth killed senselessly by a voluntary carelessness. Young people are the manifestation of years of parental love, nurturing and sacrifice; they are the dreams of a generation, the future leaders and therefore the redeeming hope for us ... »Read more letters
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