Archive | Opinion
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Column: In need of a few ground rules
It is no secret that, three years since the official end of the recession, many of the world’s economies are still in terrible shape. Here in the United States, unemployment has been above 8 percent for three years.
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Editorial: Stopping sanitizer
Despite police presence and the law dictating that minors cannot consume alcohol, teenagers are often guilty of breaking this law. One usually hears anecdotes of minors being supplied by adults or people taking advantage of fake identification.
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Column: Rodney King riots still resonate in Los Angeles
Almost 20 years ago, when most of us were in our early infancies, Los Angeles was burning. The acquittal of the four Los Angeles Police Department officers involved in the beating of Rodney King sparked one of the most incendiary events in L.A. history. Violence riddled the landscape.
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Column: Holy alliances
During an election, it can sometimes seem as if nothing is more important than the victory of one’s preferred candidate.
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Editorial: Student-loan act should be extended
An issue that both President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney actually agree on can only mean two things for America — either the Mayans were right or it’s something that should be seriously considered.
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Editorial: Students get a raw deal with rising education costs, budget cuts
The recent unveiling of tuition increases paired with education budget cuts can be quite worrisome for students, and for young people looking to get the most out of college and plan for the future. U. Louisville has yet again raised student tuition.
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Column: Facebook users should be wary of company’s data mining
Some people are surprised that Facebook and most other popular social media services are provided for absolutely no cost to any of its 800,000,000 users. Facebook is quite satisfied with the current arrangement.
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Column: Affordable change
In recent months, President Obama and administration officials have dashed across the nation trumpeting the two-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare — a title the administration has embraced as of late.
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Column: Some math about the Russian protests
While it is true that the 2011-2012 Russian street protests have been unprecedented in recent years in their scale — with a participation unseen since the 1990s — one may well want to take a closer look at the figures being trumpeted by Western and Russian pro-democracy observers and media ...