A Virginia middle school canceled part of a mock debate about Afghanistan after just two families objected that they didn’t want their eighth-graders to present the Taliban’s views -- even in what is clearly to be a simulation.
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For the 12th year in a row, I have hung Gracie’s Christmas stocking on the mantel.
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It’s been almost 30 years since, as a young reporter, I meandered around Madison’s sparkling new Civic Center behind Mayor Joel Skornicka and Joan Mondale, spouse of the vice president, on the occasion of its grand opening.
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The damaging impacts of climate change -- from the acidification of the world’s oceans to melting glaciers and rising sea levels -- are happening even faster than the most eye-opening predictions made by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just two years ago.
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The Wisconsin Legislature in 1983 enacted a moratorium on new nuclear energy facilities. Now, recognizing the need to meet energy demands and address the effects of global climate change, a growing number of lawmakers want to lift the 26-year-old ban and broaden the state’s clean energy options.
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Deb Price | Detroit News columnist
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