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With charter schools high on the state Legislature’s agenda, it would do well for readers of The Star to keep last Sunday’s edition handy for reference in the coming weeks.
Stampede of protest: Komen’s misstep and reversal sign of politics in health care
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Mitt Romney, a presidential candidate who recently revealed his income over the past two years is north of $40 million, was talking about poor people the other day.
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On one issue, at least, Anniston City Councilman Ben Little is right. Sales taxes are regressive taxes. They hurt the poor more than the well-to-do. Sales taxes are oppressive taxes. They exacerbate the fiscal misery of those who have little extra.
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The Southern Environmental Law Center distributed a list last week of “special places and natural riches [that] are threatened by a wave of calculated attacks on the bedrock laws that protect our environment and health.” The Alabama coastline was at the top of the list.
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If Americans selected their president based on income, none of the current Republican field would be in the running. (Not even Mitt Romney, whose recently released tax returns reveal a two-year income of $43 million in the years 2010 and 2011.)
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President Barack Obama spoke last week to a student audience at the University of Michigan. While there, he warned the nation’s colleges that if they continued to “jack up tuition” every year, the federal government might begin taking away some of the financial aid it gives those institutions and give it instead to schools that show “restraint and value.”
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State Rep. K.L. Brown, R-Jacksonville, who sits on the House Economic Development and Tourism Committee, posted recently on Facebook about how he and the committee were “pleased that Gulf Shores and Orange Beach had record-setting growth this past year.”He went on to add that it was “great to get beyond the tragedy of the BP oil spill.” Unfortunately, Gulf Coast resident have not gotten beyond it.
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The state of Alabama gives each public-school teacher $134 to buy supplies for their classroom. That only begins to cover what is needed.
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