Taking on too much?

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Reject division

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Opinion

Alec’s legislative bawdy house

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Do you know Alec? You probably do, even though you never heard of it. Yes, “it.” Not a person, ALEC is the acronym for a secretive, corporate-funded, state policy front group: American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC’s “exchange” is very straightforward — it ...

Obama should talk to Douglas Bruce

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Since President Barack Obama seems clueless on how to go about getting government spending and debt under control, he ought to consult someone who’s done it. No, not Bill Clinton or Newt Gingrich or Tim Pawlenty or Mitch Daniels...

Letters | Harmon Killebrew

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Harmon Killebrew...

Offshore corporate havens come onshore

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From Enron to Wall Street, a big cause of America’s major financial collapses in the past decade has been simple deceit. Finaglers used secret offshore accounts and dummy subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands and elsewhere to avoid regulatory scrutiny and to make ...

Letters | Corporations vs. people

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Correction: A May 19 story, “We the corporations,” incorrectly reported the number of signatures that have been collected by the Move to Amend initiative. More than 111,700 people have signed the petition...

What’s inside Big Oil’s head?

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As one politician bluntly said of Washington’s annual tax giveaway to massively profitable oil corporations, “We don’t need incentives to the oil and gas companies to explore. There are plenty of incentives.” That was no lefty talking — it was George W. Bush...

Fight terrorism by creating a gas glut

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Coal is a hydrocarbon that, to the profound annoyance of a lot of people, sustains civilization as we know it. It’s mainly used to generate electricity, and nearly half the electricity used in the U.S. comes from coal-fired power plants. Another 20 percent comes from...

Letters | Deli is a good neighbor

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Correction: A May 12 story, “Ned residents think sustainability” incorrectly listed the date of Nederland’s Envision 2020 event. It will be held on June 4...

A better time, a better hero

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And now, batting fourth for the Twins, playing left field, No. 3, HARMON KILLEBREW...

A morally untenable corporate system

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This will seem like a fairy tale now, but not so long ago, it was actually possible for CEO pay to constitute “an embarrassment of riches...

Letters | The death of bin Laden

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The death of bin Laden...

Keeping score on Exxon

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Now, let’s check today’s sports scores: 4, 10.7 and 21-and-a-half...