Monday, November 23, 2009
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Replay: Nolan Finley
Detroit News editorial page editor Nolan Finley touched on a range of issues in an hour-long online chat. Read the transcript.
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Nolan Finley's Blog
Nolan Finley: I don't usually favor the death penalty for a number of reasons, mostly because of the possibility … Continued
Raging Bullard
George Bullard: Sarah Palin must be laughing all the way to the bank.
She's on the cover of Newsweek in a photo … Continued
Henry Payne's Sketchbook
Henry Payne: Like the teleprompter, Obama's bow before Japanese royalty is fast becoming a symbol of his … Continued
Continuing Series
50 ideas to fix Michigan
We're highlighting ideas from various groups to promote discussion on reform and restructuring government and the economy
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Senate health reform plan
Should the Senate approve Majority Leader Harry Reid's health reform plan?
How They See Us
Outsiders' views of Detroit
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Editorial: House health bill would hit Michigan with $500M Medicaid hike
Lurking in the federal health care reform bill passed by the U.S. House is a Medicaid balloon payment that potentially would add as much as $500 million to Michigan's budget challenges when it came due a decade from now. It's a major concern to the state. - 11/23/2009
Legislature should ensure school districts allow taxpayers to sit in on labor negotiations
This fall, Michigan school districts are negotiating with teacher unions, trying to stave off budget deficits and even bankruptcies. Taxpayers should have a right to know what these talks include so they can make their wishes clear to school board members. - 11/23/2009
Amber Arellano
Add women, change Lansing
When the going gets tough, the tough go hunting. - 11/23/2009
George Will
There is still no alternative to oil
What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? Paris, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist statism? London, seat of parliamentary democracy and center of finance? Or perhaps Titusville, Pa. - 11/23/2009
50 Ideas: End K-12 teacher tenure
Idea 44: End the practice of teacher tenure as we know it and base continued employment, promotion and compensation on jointly established performance goals. - 11/23/2009
Froma Harrop
GOP becomes party of fiscal babies
Nearly every Republican these days calls for tax cuts and lower deficits, and in the same sentence. Point out that these goals clash -- that taxes pay for government and not paying for government causes deficits, and the Republican counters, "We must shrink government, instead." - 11/23/2009
Kathleen Parker
Don't choose to ignore China's forced abortions
One of the few incontrovertible assertions one can reasonably make is that no one supports forced abortion. - 11/23/2009
Clarence Page
Steer between political correctness and profiling
I admit it. As the early horrifying news of the Fort Hood massacre unfolded and I was jerked alert by the word that the suspect was a Muslim, a thought-prayer suddenly flashed across my mind: Oh, please don't let him be black. - 11/23/2009
Letters to the editor
Michigan State University professor of crop and soil sciences Phil Robertson is a few trees short of a cord of wood ("Carbon rules could damage Michigan's biofuel industry," Nov. 10). The auto industry doesn't produce cars or trucks that run on "grasses or very fast-growing trees." I wouldn't get on a plane powered by such, either. Perhaps he means to replace coal as a fuel with grass and wood, but I doubt the thermal output of grass or wood can compare with that of coal. - 11/23/2009
Nolan Finley
Finley: Is Obama out to torpedo Cherry?
The 2010 gubernatorial election may test whether Kwame Kilpatrick or Jennifer Granholm is the most toxic name in Michigan politics. - 11/22/2009
Our Editorial
Editorial: Before rushing through a health care bill, Senate should get answers to serious concerns about measure
If abortion is the only issue that gets a full public airing in the hurry-up Senate health care bill, as was the case in the House, it will be a grave disservice to good policy-making. - 11/22/2009
Letters
Letters
Cut salaries, not jobs; Cuts hurt communities; Give film aid to schools - 11/22/2009
Charles Krauthammer
New York gets to replay 9-11 propaganda
For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the "propaganda of the deed." And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 -- not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic. - 11/22/2009
Clarence Page
Civilian courts fight terrorists, too
Terrorists by definition try to frighten you into changing the way you do things. In the run-up to his trial as alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed's success as a terrorist is showing in us. A lot of good patriotic law-'n'-order Americans suddenly sound frightened by our own civilian judicial system. - 11/22/2009
Thomas Sowell
Doubt whether Uncle Sam can cut Medicare costs
What is so wrong with the current medical system in the United States that we are being urged to rush headlong into a new government system that we are not even supposed to understand, because this legislation is to be rushed through Congress before even the senators and representatives have a chance to read it? - 11/22/2009
