Quietly, last week and relatively little fanfare, voting began in Iowa, the scene of a pivotal Senate race (and a heated candidates’ debate last weekend that covered everything from ISIS and Social Security to mega-meddlers Tom Steyer and the Koch Brothers).
On the whole, the new guidance from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights is another example of executive overreach and federal interference run amok. Really, the department is going to sue local school districts if their lighting is poor? Does anyone think this is a good idea? Secretary Duncan, this is “tight-loose”?
So House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi indicated yesterday the two teams she’s pulling for in baseball’s postseason: the Baltimore Orioles and the San Francisco Giants.
You might not picture former Secretary of State George Shultz PhD ’49 as someone who drives an electric car, or has solar panels on the roof of his home. But he does — and Shultz has become a vocal proponent of action to combat climate change.
The University of Chicago announced a significant new program Wednesday to recruit more low-income students and to help them while on campus. The university said it would replace loans for needy students with grants and eliminate the application fee for lower-income students, among other measures.
Gov. Jerry Brown waded through many hundreds of bills last month in the political freedom that comes with a faint reelection challenge, a $22-million campaign war chest and a Legislature stacked with fellow Democrats.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune, Lady Bracknell observed in “The Importance of Being Earnest,” but to lose both looks like carelessness. To have lost the peace three times in the past century suggests something worse than carelessness in American foreign policy.
