Succinct health bill

Succinct health bill

The Republicans are complaining about the length of the House's draft healthcare bill: 1,900 pages. To put their carping in context, the scholar Norman Sherry wrote a three-volume biography of one man, the English writer Graham Greene, numbering roughly 2,500 pages.

Not a dream for citizens

Mirta Ojito's Nov. 1 column, One more terrible thing to waste, is an attempt to soften public opinion on the DREAM Act. The act would provide children of illegal immigrants the chance to seek a college education without fear of deportation and to qualify for scholarships and grants.

One-liners

Promises were made but never kept. This will be the unfortunate epitaph of this administration if it continues watering down the solutions to the problems we face, whether they are single-payer health insurance or alternative energy.

Don't drop tests for high-school students

As a 23-year high-school teacher in the Broward County school system, I am appalled at the new policy of the School Board to allow students to be exempt from taking their midterm or final exams if they have an A or B average. In today's highly competitive global economy we should be making our curricula more rigorous, not less.

Where's the outrage?

Where's the outrage?

What sort of headline is Army doctor blamed in base rampage to describe the worst attack ever on a military installation in this country?