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Editorial: No cap on BP
Following the Deepwater Horizon disaster, musicians, politicians and anonymous banners have advocated a boycott of BP gas stations. A “Boycott BP” Facebook group has more than 600,000 members. Minnesota has seen protests in Duluth and boycotts in Bloomington.
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Editorial: Tuition increase necessary evil
Warning: The news you’re about to read is going to give you a bad case of the Mondays. As of Friday, we will all be paying more in tuition come fall. We’ll give you a moment to let that one sink in.
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Editorial: Criticism of Obama unfair
Dwarfing previous estimates, crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak is now escaping into the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1.2 million gallons a day — equivalent to the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska happening every 8 to 10 days.
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Editorial: Keeping funds by keeping them local
When then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson and Federal Chairman Ben Bernanke met with Congressional leadership on Sept. 18, 2008, he warned that if immediate action was not taken, “[The United States] might not have an economy on Monday.” In response to the turn of events, Sen.
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Editorial: What to pay?
The supplemental budget bill Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed into law in April included a directive requesting that U. Minnesota consider involuntary furloughs for its “lowest paid employees,” in order to balance its budget.
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Editorial: About tuition
Last Friday, the U. Minnesota Board of Regents and President Bob Bruininks made a final push to raise tuition for students attending this public, taxpayer-supported land grant institution.
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Editorial: Time to support a clean athletic department
Last Wednesday found many U. Southern California Trojans hoping that, as in the previous weeks, media outlets ominously reporting the impending NCAA sanctions were misinformed. This time, however, the NCAA didn’t see its shadow and retreat for another six weeks.
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Editorial: Caribbean trafficking woes justify US response
Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met in Barbados with foreign ministers from the Caribbean, discussing ways to combat the growing threats arising from the region’s drug and weapons traffickers.
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Editorial: Going paperless has its problems
Steve Jobs could possibly take over the world and our textbooks. At this point, that isn’t all that far-fetched. As the iPad gains popularity and the reviews get better and better, we can’t help but wonder if one day U. Central Florida will become a paper-less university.