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Making Sure We Can Afford Classified Employees' Demands

From this point on, let's move forward with the

I made a comment about one of my daughter's friends the other day. I know her mother well, and I said with some affection "she's growing to be just like her mom." My daughter replied with a laugh, "Don't tell her that!"

"Man is a puzzle-solving animal."

Composting facility expansion on Highway 25 should be denied or

Who Will Run Iraq When America Pulls Out?

We'd like to see a social host ordinance that holds parents and

Starting in the late 1940s, most public school systems in the U.S. included the kindergarten program as a part of their regular 12-year sequence. Kindergarten (translation: a child's garden) was intended to build certain skills that would better prepare children to function as group members. In the early 1960s, the Ford Foundation developed programs to serve pre-kindergarten children who resided in low-income urban areas. They were designed to enhance nurturing activities that would put them on even footing with their pre-kindergarten peers. Initially, this effort only included the summer session that preceded the kindergarten year. One of the programs became know as Head Start.

Columnist Distorts Jefferson's Concepts

Every day for the two-plus months that he's been a member of our family, rain or shine, fair weather or (more likely lately) frost, I'm up at six in the morning to take Sparky on a 20-minute walk.