The Obama energy team recently got pelted from an unlikely source. In a CNBC interview, billionaire oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens lambasted the President for not doing enough to promote domestic oil and natural gas production. Pickens summed up the entirety of the White House’s policy position for traditional energy
Read More →Beating a dead horse? Hardly. “The government is us; we are the government, you and I.” Theodore Roosevelt The last thing most of us want to hear is more about former Des Moines Schools superintendent Nancy Sebring’s sexually explicit emails. The emails provided insight into Sebring’s personal life, led to
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Posted September 28, 2012in Guest Commentary
In a deeply unequal society, the affluent will always sneer at public services and the men and women who provide them. Last year, state lawmakers in Illinois did their best to make a Chicago teacher strike impossible. They passed a new law that required at least 75 percent of the
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Posted September 19, 2012in Guest Commentary
Here’s a milestone of sorts. In July, for the first time since 1998, the House of Representatives voted to maintain the current military budget rather than increase Pentagon spending. It’s the first step toward bringing the budget down. Within the bill, which included more than $600 billion for the military,
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Jerry and Casey had it right about 2012 campaign
Those looking for a way to summarize the 2012 political campaigns from the local to the presidential level could do worse than to quote President Gerald C. Ford when he took the oath of office Aug. 9, 1974: “My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.” If you prefer
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