Readers Write: Obamacare should keep religious exemption narrow. What has Obama done for Palestinians?
Letters to the Editor for the weekly print issue of Dec. 31, 2012: The religious exemption to Obamacare's contraceptive mandate should remain narrow, so few groups have the right to deny employees insurance coverage for contraception. President Obama should stop support for Israel's West Bank takeover and bring US foreign policy in line with American democratic principles.
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- Readers Write: Should Obamacare honor the rights of individuals or institutions?
- Readers Write: Democracy needs better media; Israel's right to defend itself
- Readers Write: Preserve local news; Japan's nuclear dilemma is an energy dilemma
- Readers Write: Environmental misconceptions
- Readers Write: Affirmative action is still needed in the US
- Readers Write: US-NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan is complicated; Quran must be better understood
- Readers Write: The real definition and drivers of poverty
- Readers Write: How to fight voter-ID disenfranchisement; What US must do about Iran
- Readers Write: Praise for 'the sharing economy'
- Readers Write: More advocates needed for foster children; Empower women with family planning to end world hunger
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Readers Write: Can we teach robots to think ethically?
Letters to the Editor for the October 8, 2012 weekly print issue: When we create artificial intelligence, will we create artificial 'ethicators,' too? The potential for 'cognitive decision-making skills' in computers is both challenging and exciting.
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Readers Write: Labor unions deserve our thanks; Alcohol is deadliest drug
Letters to the Editor for the October 1, 2012 weekly print issue: Only 12 percent of workers are in unions now, but we should remember how unions have improved our lives and thank the many laborers around us today. In driving accidents, alcohol – not marijuana – is the deadliest drug.
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Readers Write: Grading teachers isn't enough; Teachers deserve useful evaluation and support.
Letters for the Editor for the September 24 weekly print issue: When done with teacher buy-in, multiple measures, and meaningful professional development, teacher evaluation benefits entires school systems. Should teachers be graded? Yes. And so should parents, administrators, school boards, communities, and students. Evaluation shouldn't begin and end with teachers.
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Readers Write: Test scores can't measure teachers; Poor civics education threatens US democracy
Letters to the Editor for the weekly print issue of September 17, 2012: Many schools no longer teach civics – or even much history – leaving students without the lessons that create informed, engaged citizens. A teacher's goals – shaping human lives, as well as imparting specific knowledge and skills in the process – can't fully be measured by numbers on a year-end test.
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Readers Write: The perils of allowing women in combat
Letters to the Editor for the September 10, 2012 weekly print issue: The policy decision to allow women to serve in infantry combat should only be made after diligent consideration of the long-term effects – on women, the military, and the country.
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Readers Write: Congress must take unpopular stands, not compromise; Mike McQuery is no victim in Sandusky scandal
Letters to the Editor for the September 3, 2012 weekly print issue: Since when are leaders expected to only do what is easy in the short term? It's a tremendous reach to try and justify what amounts to Mike McQueary's cowardly act by calling him a victim of male culture.
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Readers Write: Lamar Smith is wrong. Obama's immigration policy isn't amnesty.
Letters to the Editor for the August 13, 2012 weekly print issue: Rep. Lamar Smith (R) of Texas mischaracterizes President Obama's recent decision to put a low priority on the deportation of some young illegal immigrants who were brought to the US as children. His op-ed is misleading.
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Readers Write: Family dinners are good investment; Both GOP and Dems lean right
Letters to the Editor for the August 6, 2012 weekly print issue: Family dinners at home cost less, are more nutritious, teach children verbal skills, and build connections. American political parties aren't governing from the extremes; they're both governing from the right.
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