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New views of children, education, parenting

WASHINGTON — Memo to that Massachusetts school where children in physical education classes jump rope without using ropes: Get some ropes. And you — you are about 85 per...

March 04, 2010 Other Voices

Andy

Isn't that the truth, as soon as you tell them you are shopping around, mysteriously, the price drops. With healthcare, you can't shop around. You have to take what th...

March 04, 2010 Letters to the Editor

State's deer management audit should fuel more dialogue

Over the past half-decade or so in the Butler Eagle's letters to the editor section, hunters have expressed opposition to — and frustration with — the Pennsylvania Game ...

March 04, 2010 Our Opinion

Insurance

Mention of insurance companies by Cass prompts me to relate what happened today. I recently received the premium notice for my vehicle insurance. Upon checking I realize...

March 03, 2010 Letters to the Editor

OTHER VOICES

The fact that Barack Obama named Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles to head the new presidential commission aimed at reducing the national debt is not only a good thing. Th...

March 03, 2010 Other Voices

Health care reform should reduce costs before expanding coverage

Reaction to plans by California health insurer Anthem Blue Cross to raise rates for some customers by as much as 39 percent should focus attention on an aspect of health...

March 03, 2010 Our Opinion

Creating new mental disorders a costly mistake

As chairman of the task force that created the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), which came out in 1994, I learned from painful exp...

March 03, 2010 Other Voices

Learning from European health systems

One of the most bewildering aspects of the current health-care debate is the failure to learn key lessons from health systems abroad. Conservative talk show hosts decry ...

March 03, 2010 Other Voices

Time for some old-fashioned partisanship

If the ideal of bipartisanship on major health care reform wasn't dead already, President Obama's summit meeting on Thursday killed it for good. And that's not such a ba...

March 02, 2010 Other Voices

Defeat of Pa.'s legislative leaders should top voters' 2010 agenda

Articles such as "Departing lawmakers criticize Legislature," published in the Feb. 24 Butler Eagle, project a message that should be heeded by leaders in the Pennsylvan...

March 02, 2010 Other Voices

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