COLUMNS
Column: Onward with Obamacare
WASHINGTON — So the yearlong production, set to close after Massachusetts’s devastatingly negative Jan. 19 review, saw the curtain raised one last time. Obamacare lives.By Charles Krauthammer , March 08, 2010
Column: Jail stories have always made good reading 
The boy who wondered if I looked at files also wondered what files I looked for. “How do you know what to pick from so many things?”
March 06, 2010
Column: Emanuel and his 'advisors'
WASHINGTON — In the space of 10 days, thanks in no small part to my own newspaper, The Washington Post, the president of the United States has been portrayed as a weakling and a chronic screw-up who is wrecking his administration despite everything that his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, can do to make things right.
By David Broder , March 05, 2010
Column: Losing our independence
WASHINGTON — As more Americans, especially the unemployed, come to rely on government to take care of them, we risk losing our independence.
By Cal Thomas , March 05, 2010
Column: Theater of the electorate
WASHINGTON — For all our bemoaning the tortures of health care reform, the debate has been healthy for the nation.
Everybody’s crazy aunts and uncles have been let out of their respective attics and basements, and it’s good to know who they are.
By Kathleen Parker , March 04, 2010
Column: Crazy and incoherent
MIAMI — “At some point, you have to use the word ‘crazy.’”
It will not surprise you to hear that the speaker is referring to extremists within the tea party movement. What might surprise you is that the speaker is Erick Erickson, editor in chief of RedState, a prominent conservative blog.
By Leonard Pitts , March 04, 2010
Column: Profit over principles
WASHINGTON — When Toyota President Akio Toyoda testified last week before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, an attitude was exposed that Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) correctly characterized as fostering a “cutthroat corporate” environment that placed costs ahead of quality and safety.
By Cal Thomas , March 03, 2010
Column: A matter of priorities
ST. PAUL — The buzz in the hallways and committee rooms of the Minnesota Capitol during the first few weeks of the legislative session has been focused on health care for the poor and jobs for unemployed construction workers.
What has not been mentioned is the huge increase in spending for one area of the budget.
By Phil Krinkie, Taxpayers League of Minnesota , March 03, 2010
Looking Back - 1985: Wolff's Department Store closes its doors
A weekly look back at regional historyWolff’s Department Store, a major downtown Worthington retail store since 1920, announced its closing. Members of the family, Payson Wolff and Rhoda Wolff Mains, officially announced the store would be closing soon. Since the death of Florence Wolff, widow of store founder Robert Wolff, no other Wolff family members resided in Worthington.
March 03, 2010
Column: On race and the tea party
MIAMI — A few words on the meaning of tea.
They are occasioned by a recent commentary from Keith Olbermann of MSNBC. The commentary — you can find it on YouTube — scores the tea party movement as the outcry of people who haven’t yet made peace with the fact that their president is black.
By Leonard Pitts, Syndicated Columnist , March 02, 2010
Column: Unreality is the new reality
Congress needs to do a few simple, sensible things just to show us they are alert and on the job.
By Garrison Keillor , March 02, 2010
Column: And now, to the voters
WASHINGTON — Two hours before President Obama opened his health care summit, and two blocks away, a couple dozen reporters gathered at the invitation of The Christian Science Monitor for a breakfast at which the reform proposal’s doom was foreshadowed.
By David Broder , March 01, 2010
Column: Tilikum's awful moment
WASHINGTON — Reaction to the horror at SeaWorld, a nightmare seldom seen outside Peter Benchley’s imagination, has run the exhausted gamut.
“Kill. The. Fish.” was one talk-radio host’s suggestion.
By Kathleen Parker , March 01, 2010
Column: Local cannon could mean easy money for some folks
WORTHINGTON — Let me tell you how you can make $10. Maybe even $11. It depends on what they charge for postage.
February 27, 2010
Column: Reap the rewards of FFA involvement
WORTHINGTON — The National FFA Organization is the largest youth organization in the world. There are 506,199 members in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
By Deb Martin, District 518 , February 27, 2010
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