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No union rights? Virginians are used to it
Wisconsin Republicans have scored a big victory in their fight against collective bargaining for public employees. In Virginia, however, teachers, police, firemen and other public service workers have long done without the right that public workers in 47 other...
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Peter Galuszka
| March 10, 2011; 6:42 AM ET |
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Commandments removed from Va. school system
The up-and-down case of the Ten Commandments in a far southwestern Virginia school system has taken another turn -- this time down. The Giles County School Board on Tuesday decided that copies of the Ten Commandments set in framed,...
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Peter Galuszka
| February 22, 2011; 3:42 PM ET |
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Wal-Mart and the Wilderness
Regarding the Jan. 27 news story “Wal-Mart abandons its plan to build store near Civil War battlefield”:As one of those who criticized Wal-Mart’s plans to develop a retail complex near the Wilderness Civil War battlefield, let me be among the...
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Stephen Anderson, Locust Grove
| January 28, 2011; 7:21 PM ET |
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If Sargent Shriver had run for Maryland governor ...
In the stories about R. Sargent Shriver this week, it was often mentioned that he was a second choice to be George McGovern’s running mate in the 1972 presidential election and that he ran unsuccessfully for president in 1976. Shriver...
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Patrick McGrath, Churchton, Md.
| January 22, 2011; 8:02 PM ET |
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Behind Virginia's textbook flap
The embarrassing textbook flap in Virginia comes as several trends converge -- technology changes allowing printing of limited runs of niche textbooks, little oversight of Internet-based research and the Old Dominion's el-cheapo philosophy regarding education spending. The controversies, of...
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Peter Galuszka
| January 7, 2011; 8:58 AM ET |
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Where the Va. textbook flap is leading
“Textbook follies” was an apt headline for your Jan. 2 editorial. The “dozens of errors” in a Virginia social studies textbook are factual trivia that only a nincompoop teacher would ask students to learn. The textbook is being excoriated not...
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John Hoven, Silver Spring
| January 5, 2011; 9:09 PM ET |
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