Opinion

: RTA board keeps vow to consult voters on taxes; The new RTA board held its first meeting and declared that no move would be taken to raise any sort of sales tax for local transit without voters first approving a referendum.

Dave Zweifel

Plain Talk: A bum steer from Consumer Reports

Where was Consumer Reports in uncovering problems besetting one of its perennial favorites, Toyota?

Mar 12, 2010 | 4:55 am

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Plain Talk: WMC owes Doyle some kudos
The critics need to now offer congratulations to Gov. Jim Doyle for his gutsy decision to order two train sets.

Mar 10, 2010 | 4:55 am
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Plain Talk: Where was Bunning’s outrage during GOP spending bonanza?
If it weren’t for the fact that I follow baseball closely, I’d swear that Jim Bunning was hit in the head by a line drive during his Major League Baseball pitching career.

Mar 08, 2010 | 4:55 am
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Plain Talk: Health reform failure would doom us to ever-rising costs
As the debate continues over whether we need to reform the nation’s health care system, the real question remains: Can we afford not to?

Mar 05, 2010 | 4:55 am
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John Nichols

Congress should back teaching of the Constitution

Congressman Alan Grayson has proposed legislation recommending that the U.S. Constitution be taught to high school students.

Mar 11, 2010 | 4:55 am

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‘We must fight, fight, fight’ for liberties
Michael Foot, the British journalist, author and parliamentarian who has died at age 96, was a comrade and hero of this writer for three decades.

Mar 10, 2010 | 4:50 am
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Busting the banksters
What if Americans had been asked whether they wanted to bail out big bankers and Wall Street speculators?

Mar 09, 2010 | 4:55 am
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Why is Obama writing GOP talking points?
The president, who was once an ardent advocate for repairing our health care system by developing a single-payer Medicare-for-all program, now rejects the wisdom he expressed before moving to Washington.

Mar 07, 2010 | 5:00 am
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Barbara Quirk

AARP members give Feingold an earful on health care

More than 100 people, including those from AARP, braved a snowy, blustery day to bring their messages to Sen. Russ Feingold.

Mar 09, 2010 | 4:50 am

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Ed Garvey

Doyle’s steaming as state misses cut in Race to the Top

Gov. Jim Doyle is angry and when he is angry you know it. Why he is so angry? Not because most Democrats in the Legislature took him on when they tried to override his veto of the bill taking away his power to appoint the secretary of the Department of Natural Resources.

Mar 08, 2010 | 5:30 am

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