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Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Letter to Editor: Public School Accountability

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There was an excellent  letter to the editor published in the News-Leader  last week. Two A+ students from Hillcrest High School, who tu...
Saturday, March 30, 2019

School Superintendents: Vital or Irrelevant?

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School Superintendents: Vital or Irrelevant? Springfield's superintendent has received yet another award from the Missouri Associ...
Sunday, March 10, 2019

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Short Take: Religion, Capitalism & Political Power Christian/Military yard ornament. Wal-Mart, Springfield, Missouri There are ...
Friday, February 22, 2019

YOU MUST STOP AT THE END OF THIS SECTION!

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Standardized tests. As a teacher, I wasted many a day administering these tools of the devil to children who, like their teachers and ...
Sunday, August 06, 2006

The Bizarre World of Rep. Ed Emery (R-Lamar)

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In the strange, twisted world of state representative Edgar Emery (R-Lamar) , there is no color gray, and he'd just as soon there were n...
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Sunday, July 09, 2006

Literacy Success Story #8

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Literacy Success Story #8 - from the notes of a reading teacher working with illiterate adults. The year is 1989, and Barbara Bush, like so ...
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Sunday, June 04, 2006

Aunt Norma's Dark Past

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I was thumbing through some old Springfieldians and came across an interesting article that delves into state senator Norma Champion 's...
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

FBI Investigation Inches Closer to Roy Blunt

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A BC News investigative correspondent, Brian Ross, reports that FBI investigators are taking a close look at House Speaker Dennis Hastert...
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Sunday, May 21, 2006

Sunday Thread

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The News-Leader was all over the power plant issue in this week's Sunday edition. Environmentalists argue against a new coal-fired plant...
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Sunday, May 07, 2006

Bearing False Witness Door to Door

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I hear a knock on the door last Saturday, and standing before me on my front step are two gentlemen carrying paperback books about the Ten C...
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Monday, April 24, 2006

Lincoln on Preventive War

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Here's President Lincoln's take on presidential war powers in speaking his opposition to the Mexican War in 1848. It's from a Wa...
Thursday, April 13, 2006

Abramoff, DeLay, Blunt: A Living Museum of Corruption

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If there ever were a Southwest Missouri Hall of Fame of Political Corruption, someone would be commissioned to prepare a bust of Roy Blunt f...
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Monday, April 10, 2006

The Large and Small of It

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There is so much to write about, and so little time, but this amazing image of what has been called the "DNA Nebula" stopped me in...
Wednesday, April 05, 2006

John Dean on George Bush

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I found two interesting quotes from former Nixon White House counsel John Dean. You may recall the image of Dean being sworn in at the Senat...
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Sunday, April 02, 2006

Bond Issue, MAP Mayhem at Springfield R-12

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Sunday Thread The Sunday News-Leader editorial page is awash with education issues today - school board endorsement, bond issue debate and ...
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Sunday, March 26, 2006

Manliness Next to Godliness

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The most interesting exchange on the Sunday morning news circuit came near the end of ABC's 'This Week' , with Harvard author Ha...
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Bush Unaware of Babylon Apocalypse Prophecy

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You know, for a guy who claims to be born-again, who blatantly pandered to Christian Evangelicals in order to secure fully 20% of the presid...
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