This last weekend of April displayed the very best and the very worst of Washington. The worst is the part most of the country sees most of the time in the capital: the triumph of money and power.
April 2013
Posted inSports
ON BASEBALL: A’s bring Hadlock feel to Fenway
BOSTON — When the Oakland A’s were in town early last week, the visiting clubhouse at Fenway had a Hadlock feel to it.
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Posted inOpinion
COMMENTARY: How to get the best summer job
School is out in only a few weeks, so the time is now for those considering a summer job.
Posted inOpinion
COMMENTARY: American football industry in its death throes
With all that college beef on parade last week, the NFL draft is a wonder of sports marketing, a televised pageant for the multibillion-dollar American football industry.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
OUR OPINION: Robbing Peter to pay Paul not a fair tax plan
When it’s time to pay, people don’t really care who collects their taxes. Whether it’s a check to the town office for property taxes, or an additional 5 percent on the bill at a checkout line or a deduction from your weekly pay, it’s all money going out to support the activities of government, either at the state, local or federal levels.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Let Knight’s lawyer pay tab for restitution
Christopher Knight hasn’t worked a day in his life. Apparently, all he has done over the last 27 years is steal. He chose a lifestyle, and the public has paid for it through his alleged acts of thievery.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Gun-free zones not necessarily safe for kids
Let’s suppose that Adam Lanza had not taken his own life after murdering 26 children and six staff at Sandy Hook Elementary and was captured instead.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
By vote, Senate indirectly condones shooting deaths
Gun control legislation was defeated in the U.S. Senate on April 17, by 46 votes — enough to prevent its passage.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Giffords op-ed powerful, should be required reading
“Senators say they fear the NRA and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first-graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.” So writes Gabrielle Giffords in an op-ed piece for The New York Times responding to the Senate defeat of a bill to expand background checks. Giffords has a unique perspective about the national gun debate as a former representative from Arizona, a gun-friendly state, and as the victim of gun violence who was shot two years ago at point-blank range.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Maybe special fee needed for some dogs
Before I even began reading about the poor little girl attacked by a dog, I knew it had to be a rottweiler or pitbull or a mix of those breeds.