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Revision to county officials' pay-raise rule long overdue

The 25-year-old county resolution setting minimum pay raises each year for elected officials was a bad idea when it was adopted, because it failed to account for changin...

August 18, 2010 Our Opinion

Fred et al.

Fred, if you get money from your parents, YOU did not pay taxes on it. YOU received the money. YOU received an income which you did not pay for. How hard is that to u...

August 18, 2010 Letters to the Editor

Real battle: protecting the Pentagon budget from cuts

WASHINGTON — Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the sensible Republican in the Democratic administration of Barack Obama, has taken the rising demand for federal spendin...

August 18, 2010 Other Voices

Ethics hearings inconvenient for Dems, but good for voters

Two high-profile ethics hearings will take place in Washington, D.C., probably next month. A full airing of charges against U.S. Reps. Charles Rangel of New York and Max...

August 17, 2010 Our Opinion

OTHER VOICES

It would be tragic if the embrace of hatred, delusion and fear turn out to be the lasting American legacy of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. These destructive emotions have...

August 17, 2010 Other Voices

Playgrounds

Congratulations to the group from Kids Count II, Tracy Huselton, and the City of Butler for attempting to revitalize the Butler City Playground program. I attended the...

August 17, 2010 Letters to the Editor

People's driving

Since everyone seems to be arguing about the health care and we can't do a darned thing about it, how bout something we can do something about? DRIVING! People - turn s...

August 17, 2010 Letters to the Editor

Real tax increases, real consequences

Taxpayers don't look at taxes the way the people who spend the tax money do. Take the battle over the extension of the "Bush tax cuts." Americans to Washington: They wer...

August 17, 2010 Other Voices

Herb

No, I never watch FOX news. Even they, themselves, admit that their "news" is entertainment. They show pictures of a supposed tea party rally that is happening at that...

August 17, 2010 Letters to the Editor

Despite Sherrod, Vilsack is man of ideas

WASHINGTON — Over the years, reporters learn that there are a relative handful of the public officials with whom we deal who can be counted on to expand our understandin...

August 16, 2010 Other Voices

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