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Cap Times columnists

John Nichols
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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Dave Zweifel
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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Cap Times Columnists

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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Commentary

Deb Price: Maryland wades in on gay marriage

A heartwarming step on Feb. 24 pushes Maryland closer to treating committed gay couples as equal to heterosexual counterparts.

Mar 09, 2010 | 4:45 am | Loading…

Peter Singer: Free Tilly -- and all circus animals

The death of a Sea World trainer in a whale attack is a tragedy. But the incident raises broader questions: Is it right to keep such large animals in close confinement?

Mar 09, 2010 | 4:40 am | Loading…

E.J. Dionne: Cleaning up the Supreme Court’s mess

In a city where the phrase “bipartisan initiative” is becoming an oxymoron, the urgency of containing the damage the Supreme Court could do to our electoral system creates an opportunity for a rare convergence of interest and principle.

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K. Rashid Nuri: The case for urban agriculture

The time has come for we Americans to reclaim our agricultural heritage. Participating in urban agriculture would be a major step in that direction.

Mar 08, 2010 | 4:45 am | Loading…

Scot Ross: Scott Walker’s year of magical thinking

One year ago, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker famously wrote in the Wall Street Journal about the inability of government to create jobs and the need for Wisconsin to reject billions of dollars in Recovery Act funds. One year later, almost to the day, he changed his tune.

Mar 07, 2010 | 4:55 am | Loading…

Roland S. Martin: Students not fighting hard enough for change

The same students who pore passion into the NCAA Basketball Tournament should say the heck with the games and put their energy, zeal and passion into two of the most fundamental issues posing the most dramatic barriers to gaining a college education: the rising cost of tuition and the lack …

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