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  • Phoning it in wont cut it Lafayette City Council

    There are many ways in which technology has improved things at work, home and in government. But we're skeptical of a plan by the Lafayette City Council to allow members to attend meetings remotely via phone, video or Internet. Lafayette officials approved a "remote attendance" policy earlier this month by a vote of 4-2, with one member absent. After a keen-eyed citizen pointed ...

  • Americans have record wealth but aren’t spending it

    In the economic history of our time, June 6, 2013, ought to occupy a special place. That's the day the Federal Reserve disclosed that the net worth of American households -- the value of what they own minus what they owe -- hit $70 trillion, a record that exceeded the previous peak before the 2007-09 financial crisis. Higher stock prices and a long-awaited housing recovery are slowly ...

  • My view Nothing sinister about Common Core

    In an effort to improve our nation's education system and make students better prepared for college and careers, a new set of standards is now sweeping across classrooms throughout the United States. It's an approach call the Common Core and it has been heavily discussed at the Education Nation ...

  • What others say It shouldnt take a law

    The following editorial appeared recently in the San Jose Mercury News: Silicon Valley has a problem. The furor over the Obama administration's use of technology to track possible terrorists has cast a spotlight on the private information Valley companies collect. The question is: Is government's disclosure of its use of data for national security more important than companies' ...

  • Orrs blueprint puts city residents first

    In laying out his blueprint for saving Detroit, Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr is finally forcing the city to accept that its priority must be providing services, not jobs and benefits. The plan he presented to creditors is weighted toward residents and asks tremendous sacrifice of workers, retirees and debt holders. Those expecting Orr to solve ...


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Movie Review

The Emerald Forest [DVD]

The Emerald Forest [DVD]

In The Emerald Forest, director John Boorman returns to the untamed wilds of nature in order to spin a mythic, violent fable about humankind's environmental destructiveness. ...

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  • Editors Picks Detroit is a tough business partner

    Detroit turns away needed investors By Henry Payne An oil sands byproduct, petroleum coke, has brought more business to the ...

  • Insolvency doesnt deter Detroit politicians War on Business

    Activists protest in front of mounds of of petroleum coke on the Detroit waterfront. Pet coke is a byproduct of the nearby Marathon oil refinery. (David Coates/The Detroit ...

  • U.S. should avoid entering Syrian civil war

    The bitterest fights tend to be civil wars. Today, Syria is going through such a brutal bloodletting. The Obama administration reportedly has decided to provide arms to ...

  • Another Kwame robs Detroit

    Readers say that councilman Kwame Kenyatta, who is collecting a check but not showing up to work, symbolizes Detroit's problems. (Robin Buckson/The Detroit ...

  • Iran New face old agenda

    OK, so the newly elected president of Iran isn’t a hate-spewing, Holocaust denying whack-job like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.And sure, that’s a good thing. It speaks to the good sense of the people of Iran who, no doubt, would like their leader not to be a source of international embarrassment. It also is encouraging that Hasan Rowhani, the only cleric in the presidential race, spent much ...

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