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Traveling old U.S. Highway 20Jun 17, 2013 - By Randy Tucker: At every stop, I met someone I already knew as a Wind River athlete and parent or as a Shoshoni coach. | Beware the leader without frank friendsJun 17, 2013 - By Mark Shields: Consider a letter to Lyndon Johnson from a friend who had the nerve to tell him the truth. |
About your dadJun 17, 2013 - By Steven R. Peck: Fathers Day is a good time to learn more, so ask him | In Syria, humanitarian donors hard to findJun 14, 2013 - By Paul Richter, MCT Washington Bureau: Facing a growing humanitarian crisis, Oxfam, the international relief agency, set a goal in January of raising $53 million to aid victims of Syria's brutal ... [more] |
Stars and stripesJun 14, 2013 - By Steven R. Peck: It's Flag Day, and there's a right way to observe it | Obama aides split on arming Syria rebelsJun 13, 2013 - The Associated Press: WASHINGTON -- Despite growing alarm over the Syrian government's military advances, Obama administration officials are split over whether to arm the country's ... [more] |
Echoes from our grandfathersJun 13, 2013 - By Betty Starks Case: Through the years I've painted various word pictures of the dads I know. | Pay and genderJun 13, 2013 - By Steven R. Peck: We're proud that it is not an issue in our business |
Fact from fiction about 'Common Core'Jun 12, 2013 - By Renee Schoof, MCT Washington Bureau: A backlash against the Common Core educational standards for grade school has hit the radio talk shows and Internet blogs in recent weeks. | We are watchedJun 12, 2013 - By Steven R. Peck: This is what we get for our rush to link ourselves electronically to one another |
Tea party voters are as fired up as everJun 11, 2013 - By Doyle McManus: Their solution to the Republican Party's electoral challenges is to swing further right, not toward the center. | Tuesday notesJun 11, 2013 - By Steven R. Peck: The one and only |
Defeat key to developing characterJun 9, 2013 - By Randy Tucker: Life isn't fair. That simple statement is one of the hardest things for young people to learn, but no matter your lot in this life, it is one of the hallmarks ... [more] | Second-term pitfalls surrounding ObamaJun 9, 2013 - By Mark Shields: Dan Jenkins, a sportswriter of rare wit, once gave us the Ten Stages of Drunkenness, which include these separate points on the road to inebriation: "Witty and ... [more] |
Commissioner payJun 9, 2013 - By Steven R. Peck: The members are giving themselves a raise, but the procedure for it is sound | Ins and outs of government's surveillanceJun 7, 2013 - By David G. Savage, McClatchy Newspapers: WASHINGTON -- A newly published court order has confirmed what key members of Congress said they have known for years -- that the government has routine access ... [more] |
Farmers marketJun 7, 2013 - By Steven R. Peck: In light of recent debate, a trial run at City Park could be worth a try | Ft. Hood gunman's trial must move ahead, but it needs to be fair as wellJun 6, 2013 - By The Fort Worth Star-Telegram: The court-martial of Army Maj. Nidal Hasan on charges of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others at Fort Hood in 2009 has been an exercise in frustration for ... [more] |
Lovely people, no doubt, but ...Jun 6, 2013 - By Clair McFarland: For the better part of a year, I have been eager to write on the subject of local vagrancy that appears so often, both in this paper and within my list of ... [more] | Brain as body partJun 6, 2013 - By Steven R. Peck: The president's mental health remarks bring a longtime Ranger reader to mind |
Prime time for the Dipper and BearJun 5, 2013 - By Carl Manning: June, the midpoint in the of the dance of the Sun and our Earth which this year occurs on June 21. It is our longest day of sunlight and of course our shortest ... [more] | GOP governors looking less vulnerable as prep for 2014 election startsJun 5, 2013 - By Thomas Beaumont, The Associated Press: DES MOINES, Iowa -- Republican governors took over statehouses across the country after the 2010 elections and immediately acted on promises to usher in a new ... [more] |
Definition of termsJun 5, 2013 - By Steven R. Peck: 'Normal' fire danger is no cause for complacency as summer nears | Powers collide in recess appointment spatJun 4, 2013 - By James Rosen, MCT Washington Bureau: The Supreme Court is expected to take up a groundbreaking separation-of-powers case later this month that features a constitutional clash between the ... [more] |
Tuesday notesJun 4, 2013 - By Steven R. Peck: So rare | When 'local control' is too localJun 3, 2013 - By Randy Tucker: When a school board member has children, spouses or in-laws working in the district, the temptation to attempt total control of a school, or at least an ... [more] |
Graduation advice for grads and speakersJun 3, 2013 - By Mark Shields: The odds are pretty good that more people could name the U.S.'s last 10 vice presidents than could tell you who spoke at their own graduation. | Up in the airJun 3, 2013 - By Steven R. Peck: Would Fremont County dare try a subsidy to improve airline service? |
No question: Tax breaks help rich the mostMay 31, 2013 - By Lisa Mascaro, MCT Washington Bureau: Federal income tax breaks disproportionately benefit wealthier households, according to a report issued Wednesday that is certain to become ammunition in the ... [more] | Last days of schoolMay 31, 2013 - By Steven R. Peck: Graduates aren't the only ones with a worthy accomplishment |
This is what it looks like when politicians do their jobsMay 30, 2013 - By The Philadelphia Inquirer: Chilly weather aside, most of the Jersey Shore's towns were back in business for the Memorial Day weekend, which was capped by another joint appearance of ... [more] | Feeding on the pastMay 30, 2013 - By Betty Starks Case: Happy Memorial Day. (Used to be). |
The education bureaucratMay 30, 2013 - By Steven R. Peck: In the aftermath of SF104, Wyoming has reached an important step | Approval isn't the same as credibilityMay 29, 2013 - By Doyle McManus: President Obama might be learning that lesson -- uncomfortably. |
'Making the mail'May 29, 2013 - By Steven R. Peck: A new post office deadline puts us under the gun, but we are working on it | Republicans pulling openly for new health care law to fail, boosting '14 ballot hopesMay 28, 2013 - By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, The Associated Press: WASHINGTON -- If Republicans were writing a movie script for next year's congressional elections, the working title might be "2014: Apocalypse of ... [more] |
Tuesday notesMay 28, 2013 - By Steven R. Peck: Remembering | Sometimes you have to improviseMay 26, 2013 - By Randy Tucker: An aging Inter-national tractor brings out my creative side. |
Remembrance, not sorrowMay 26, 2013 - From staff reports: Memorial Day: 'When everybody is alive' | Bread and butterMay 24, 2013 - By Steven R. Peck: Want to find a 50-year-old valedictorian? Better look at a community college |
