Keep corporations out of classrooms
James Merriman is comparing apples and oranges when he juxtaposes public education with other services that are subject to market forces in varying degrees (“It takes a village to educate children,”...
View ArticleConsider Republicans, Keystone XL pipeline
The first major task of the newly elected House and Senate Republicans, under the promise of “getting things done for the people” is to pass legislation to attempt to force the building of the Keystone...
View ArticleParents smarter than the profiteers
Bureaucrats and corporate lackeys are charging that concerned parents who opt out of discredited standardized testing are somehow interfering with their children’s education. This is tantamount to...
View ArticleGovernment real abuser of welfare
After the first several paragraphs of the commentary “Food stamp proposal would humiliate the needy,” May 29, I found myself asking: What’s wrong with this proposal? The proposed state laws would limit...
View ArticleVW’s scandal is business as usual
Volkswagen’s clean emissions scam illustrates “that corporate wrongdoing is not confined to the banking industry, and that merely levying fines or ramping up regulation is unlikely to solve the...
View ArticleA certain irony in editorial
In the editorial “Who will heed the call?” Dec. 22, the Times Union Editorial Board asks members of the state Legislature to send a message to Congress to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn...
View ArticleSanders may be on to something
How often have you heard people say “throw them all out!” or “nothing gets done in Washington?” We finally have a chance to do something about this, and I fear that, if we miss it, another opportunity...
View ArticleReform capitalism, don’t give up on it
Until recently, most Americans supported capitalism “because it produced a dazzling array of goods and services at reasonable prices, while at the same time distributing income in a way that made those...
View ArticleMake our nation a happy country
According to the World Happiness Report, countries with the strongest social safety nets tend to have the happiest citizens. Sadly, the United States is not at or near the top of the world’s happiest...
View ArticleTrade pact designed for corporate profit
The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, signed by President Barack Obama in February, is the largest trade agreement in history involving 12 Pacific Rim nations and accounting for 40 percent of the...
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