by Dane Roberts Daily Lobo columnist National Security Notice: If you are serving in the United States Armed Forces in Iraq - or if you may be called up for future service in Iraq -- and have somehow stumbled across this article, stop reading immediately.
by Dane Roberts Daily Lobo columnist In my last column, I argued that education is so laden with personal values that the state shouldn't assume the task of defining how or what each kid should learn. The issue of evolution versus creationism in the science curriculum perfectly illustrates the impossibility of standardizing our public schools.
by Dane Roberts Daily Lobo columnist For its staying power, there are few controversies in America to match the debate pitting evolution against creationism in public schools. From its legendary beginnings in the 1925 Scopes Trial to the current case in York, Penn.
by Dane Roberts Daily Lobo columnist Democrats are committed to using government powers to create both equality of opportunity and to strive for equitable outcomes. In principle - if not necessarily in practice - Republicans think citizens should be responsible for themselves, and regard these government interventions as ineffective and wasteful - an unjust use of hard-earned taxpayer money.
by Dane Roberts Daily Lobo columnist If you live in the University neighborhood south of Central Avenue and are walking home down an alley littered with beer cans, and you happen to see a few cornstalks peeking over a fence trellised with a vine of ripe green beans, you will have found the house of someone with a soft spot for the past.
by Dane Roberts Daily Lobo columnist Let's say I landed in the United States two weeks ago, just as the tragic damage done by Hurricane Katrina was becoming apparent. Let's also say that I depended on America's newspaper of record, The New York Times, for all my news and opinion.
by Dane Roberts Daily Lobo columnist Keep an eye on the deed to your home. In case you didn't hear, over the summer the Supreme Court decided that cities could take homes away from their owners and turn them over to for-profit development corporations. The city of New London, Conn.
by Dane Roberts Daily Lobo columnist On Sunday, you could have gone to the grocery store down the street and bought a pound of strawberries for $1.99, or you could have gone to the La Monta§ita Co-op on Carlisle Boulevard and Central Avenue and paid almost twice as much - $3.
Dear Mr. President, I am a part-time University of New Mexico student and columnist for the student newspaper, but in my other life, I am a middle school teacher. Because I have firsthand experience of some of the challenges teachers and students face, I thought I'd offer some advice on education policy.
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