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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Foster kids need you

By Ruth McRoy / / As You Were Saying . . .

Children needing placement are an average of 8 years old and many of them have been in foster care for several years. Targeting...

2 Comments

Real men don’t spin lettuce in a vacuum

By Roger Simon

The phone rings. It is my friend, Larry. “Catch you at a bad time?” he asks. No, no, I pant. Why? “You seem out of breath.” ...

Not to our health

By Deroy Murdock

As the Senate weighs a 2,074-page health care “reform” bill, supporters of a government option for medical coverage consider this the finest federal...

World won’t bow for Obama’s sake

By Michael Barone

On his 10-day trip to Asia and in his 10th month in office, Barack Obama is beginning to encounter limits on his ambition to change the world. Even as he bowed...

Moving on health

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff

Even as Senate Democrats prepare to make a show of support for majority leader Harry Reid’s health care bill, those...

1 Comment

And a delay on climate

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff

The Senate will put off consideration of a climate-change bill until spring - and that’s good news. Delay gives opponents more time to make their...

Friday, November 20, 2009

Swing and miss in China visit

By Peter Brookes

If you were troubled by President Barack Obama’s “Wow Bow” in Japan, you won’t be any happier with...

16 Comments

The sister saved may be yours

By Lynne K. Varner

Obviously, I am not more knowledgeable about breast cancer than a government-led panel of experts. Yet I know enough to look...

8 Comments

Don’t throw book at her

By Jonah Goldberg

Slate magazine is just one of the countless media outlets convulsing with St. Vitus’ Dance over that succubus Sarah...

38 Comments

Taxpayers never win

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff

Just when you think the Legislature might actually be “getting it” - hearing the public’s outrage over...

18 Comments

Race for last place

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff

In failing to adopt meaningful education reforms by the end of formal sessions this week the Legislature has placed the commonwealth at risk of forfeiting some...

Trash that scheme

It only takes common sense to know that an additional tax will only make things worse for the people (“State senator...

1 Comment

Victimized twice

The state’s decision to cut funding for the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program is in a word insane (Nov. 15). Certainly budgets are tight,...

The real score

As a Boston Public Schools employee I understand how this was put forward and it is not so cut and dried as is written here (“Union blocks teacher bonuses,”...

Confront bullying

Bullying should be a part of every curriculum (“Survey: Bullies prey on autistic kids,” Nov. 13). I have a son with regressive autism and not only...

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