Commentary
Matching students to the right college
By WILLIAM E. TROUTT
Time magazine's recent cover story "Who Needs Harvard?" provides solid advice for American families and students seeking to find the right college. It is especially meaningful at a time when admissions to America's most highly rated colleges and universities is increasingly difficult and the pathway to admissions success at these institutions seems more opaque than ever.
The Time story references a sign over a high-school guidance counselor's door: COLLEGE IS A MATCH TO BE MADE, NOT A PRIZE TO BE WON.
Risk vs. reality
By PAUL C. CAMPOS
Suppose 30 students are eating lunch in a school cafeteria. Twenty of them are white, and 10 are black. The 10 black students are sitting at one table, while the 20 white students are at two other tables.
The president's hurricane
An editorial / By Dale McFeatters
His administration's belated and inept response to Hurricane Katrina, including a seemingly callous Air Force One flyover of human misery, was a low point of the Bush presidency, and he has been struggling to regain his standing ever since.
As a White House press release carefully reminds us, since the drowning of New Orleans the president has been back to the Gulf Coast 12 times, the first lady 13 times and members of his Cabinet 82 times.
Don't start privatizing the IRS
Editorial
The Bush administration's plan to turn over some back-tax collections to private companies is a bad idea from virtually every standpoint _ except the private companies'. Not only would the strategy cost more than if regular IRS officers were employed.
DA to world: Never mind
Editorial
When Mary Lacy, then Mary Keenan, was re-elected Boulder district attorney two years ago, her only opponent was a write-in candidate. Never mind her disgraceful performance in the University of Colorado recruiting scandals (more on that in a moment).
9-11 Conspiracy
More than a third of the American public suspects that federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll. SHNS reporter Tom Hargrove reports on the growing anger and mistrust in the government in this story.
