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[ [ "I saw <PERSON> and <PERSON> in the original production<br/>and took my kids to see <PERSON> in the 25th anniversary revival.<br/>I'm taking my grown daughter to see Bette.<br/>So many stars shine brightly in a work created by <PERSON> <PERSON> and others. Stars in future generations may also be able to shine because<br/>of THEIR talents.", "912" ], [ "As of 12/31/17 Wells Fargo's assets were $1,747,354,000,000. (link below)<br/>The top ten banks, with assets approaching $10 trillion, (see same link), lie cheat, steal and when caught, have paid many billions of dollars in fines over the last decade.<br/>Why? They can afford it. .<br/>Unless the banks are broken up, or their CEOs are sent to jail, these fines will continue to be just the cost of doing business.<br/>Next question - Who in executive branch or congress prevents jailing these crooks?<br/><a href=\"_URL_0_\" title=\"_URL_0_\" target=\"_blank\">_URL_0_</a>", "640" ], [ "If this \"surprise\" strike conducted without letting the enemy know in advance resulted in only 3 \"injuries\" according to the Syrian military, either Syrians and Russians were extremely lucky, or, more plausible, we alerted them in advance, which not only allowed them to limit human casualties, but also to remove ordinance (and chemicals?) before the strike.<br/>So, as you ask, what was the mission?<br/>One possibility, to make the administration \"look\" tough.", "564" ], [ "The Republican tax reform bill has already led to forecasts<br/>of unsustainable deficits and, rushed through, needs to \"correct\" errors.<br/>They damaged the nation, giving the top 1% enormous gifts, and now<br/>run away leaving the nation damaged.<br/>Am I cynical to ask the New York Times to follow-up and see what high paying jobs these retiring Republicans get after they leave office?", "951" ], [ "I saw this wonderful production of a great musical. The review is spot on.<br/>For those reading criticisms of its imperfections here, don't let them dissuade you from going. The book, music, lyrics and choreography surpass MOST long running musicals of the last several decades. They don't make them like this anymore. Period. And these performances are worthy of the show itself.<br/> PC complaints ignore time and place of the story itself, let alone the 1950's when the show was written.", "957" ], [ "I abhor <PERSON>, but I I think Amazon has harmed us, not for the reasons he says.<br/>Retail business, the jobs they create, and the social fabric the encourage, is dying (read <PERSON> \" The Death and life of Great American Cities\")<br/>The Borders Book store at the mall near me closed, destroyed by Amazon. What's there now? An Amazon Book Store. It will not take cash and is in part designed the encourage enrolling in Amazon Prime.<br/>Amazon may be convenient, but it is killing us without our knowing it as ut maximizes its profitability.", "149" ], [ "Each of us gleans whatever supports what we already believe from the facts. Republicans, interviewed watching <PERSON>'s television interview, repeatedly characterized him as \"weak.\" There were almost no positive comments. I see <PERSON> as judicious, at times overly cautions and like a \"boy scout\". I see <PERSON> as a name calling, arrogant, lying bully. His supporters see someone \"strong\" and \"fighting for them.\"<br/>This phenomenon is called \"confirmation bias,\" finding data to support what you already believe.<br/>The last time this was so stark for me was the day of the <PERSON> verdict, in a room filled with adults, half black, half white. When the verdict was read,<br/>the blacks cheered. The whites gasped.<br/>Politicians exploit confirmation bias. The challenge is for us as individuals and as a nation to monitor and address it.", "746" ], [ "Given this, it is worth spotlighting that <PERSON> is doing everything she can to allow parents to siphon off public education funds and use them to help pay for wealthier parents private school tuition. Less and less money is left to educate the poorer students and students with special needs, students private schools don't want.", "302" ], [ "Under Ms. <PERSON>, wealthy parents of children in private schools would be able to use education tax funds for expensive private or religious schools (schools with no oversight). The result? - less money for public school students.<br/>Charter Schools get funding public schools lack. <PERSON>, head of Success Academy, gets a salary over $400,000, more than the NYC Public Schools Chancellor. Who pays her salary? Ask! Charters get funding public schools lack, can remove students that they don't want, then tout how much better they are.", "302" ], [ "As noted in the article, some public schools, particularly in the south, shut down rather than integrate. Vouchers, promoted by Ms. <PERSON>, can allow parents to take public taxpayer dollars and use them to enroll their children in segregated schools, exactly what <PERSON> wanted to accomplish. School \"choice\" at work.<br/> Separately, wealthy parents, who pay up to $50,000 a year for private schools here in New York City, would have the right to take public school dollars and use them for those private schools while decreasing the money available to educate poor inner city students.<br/> I've yet to hear Ms. <PERSON> address this.", "302" ], [ "I ignored <PERSON>, during the primaries, during the election campaign and election night. It was good for my mental health. However, since inauguration, I watch each day's jaw dropping news like rubber necking a roadside accident. It has NOT been good for my mental health. I am trying to wean myself.<br/><br/>Democrats are, I believe, making a mistake attacking <PERSON> directly.<br/>Instead, they should<br/>1 - talk directly to the voters each time he publicly states things that are untrue<br/>2 - each time he proposes something that will likely hurt rather than help them, warn \"Listen to what President <PERSON> just said. As yourself 'is this good for me? Will I be better off?' \" This appears to have a positive impact on voters, particularly apprehensive about losing health insurance<br/>3 - each time <PERSON> demeans the office he holds, hold <PERSON> and <PERSON> and other Republicans accountable for not forcefully objecting. He is a danger to Democracy and when they don't confront it, they are putting their party ahead of the country and should be called out on it.", "461" ], [ "Attacking <PERSON> directly is useless.<br/>Democrats should -<br/>1 - talk directly to <PERSON> supporters each time he, or Republicans, do something that hides the real consequences asking \"If this is done (as with health care) will YOU be better off? You are being misled.<br/><br/>2 - confront <PERSON> and <PERSON> and other Republican Congressmen when they enable <PERSON> - \"Why are you not vigorously investigating his ties to Russia\" for example.<br/><br/>ARGUING WITH <PERSON> DIRECTLY IS USELESS.", "465" ], [ "To those suggesting Democrats are just afraid of the truth -<br/>It isn't fear of the truth coming out, it's fear that the memo is a half truth purposely leaving out all of the details for a nefarious reasons. Note that Republicans only want the Democratic version of the memo released AFTER theirs. Why? Why not release the both at the same time?<br/>I'm inclined to believe Republican Senator <PERSON> and FBI Director <PERSON>'s advice not to release the memo. For those that cry \"Release the memo!\" if Senator <PERSON> and FBI Director <PERSON>'s warnings are ignored, I add only \"Release the memos!\"", "833" ], [ "A less than stellar efficient investigation. Yes.<br/>I see this as illustrating the danger of using individual imperfect episodes to broadly condemn.<br/>1 - Some police officers are abusive, even kill innocents. Those individuals need to be held accountable, but condemning the entire police force also puts us at risk.<br/>2 - Some F.B.I. agents act less than perfectly. But now we have near hysteria about ONE, maybe TWO FISA warrants and some biased personal e-mails showing poor judgement and the entire Republican Party and the White House are purposely whipping up a frenzy - and worse - they're been successful<br/>3 - Some men in politics, show business and corporations grossly abused their power over subordinates for sex. They should be condemned, but now a crude flirtation is treated no different from a rape.<br/>It is not helpful that the President of the United States not only engaged in sexual intimidation and bullying, he models that behavior, tolerated silently by far too many.", "734" ], [ "Distrust of the upcoming 2018 elections already exists. The President's ignores evidence from his own appointees and does nothing. Russia will<br/>successfully exploit and intensify the discord. And with a Divider-in-Chief now simultaneously pitting Americans against one another while<br/>doing nothing to defend America against Russian attack, as rancorous as things are now, I fear things will become much worse.", "347" ], [ "President-elect <PERSON> and others frequently use the intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to disparage our intelligence agencies. Remember, even before the Iraq war, many were pointing out that the problem was not so much the intelligence, but President <PERSON>’s “cherry picking” the intelligence to support his wish to go to war.<br/>Mr. <PERSON> is doing exactly that, picking the intelligence he prefers. If past is prologue, we are in very serious danger.", "880" ], [ "I hope Democrats, instead of deriding <PERSON> (you cannot reason with people who are unreasonable)<br/>1 - relentlessly confront Republican congressmen, compelling them to either voice support for or reject the President.<br/>2 - relentlessly address the voters informing them how the things the President says he'll do, or is doing, will, over time, hurt them and the country.<br/>Best example to date - Senator <PERSON> telling voters that dismantling the ACA will \"make America sick again.\"", "127" ], [ "I'm reading <PERSON>'s \"Thank You For Being Late\", describing the wonders of technological advance, with human emotion and relationships all but absent so far in my reading - one poll he cites noted 38% would rather give up sex for a year than their cell phones.<br/>Psychologist <PERSON> - see her book \"Alone Together\" - writes about this, how we, especially the generations brought up on gadgets, have come to view intimate human interactions sometimes as scary.", "855" ], [ "A cancer patient, conservative Republican, also went public, in front of <PERSON>, on how the ACA saved his life (link below).<br/>The public should be exposed regularly to article like these from those whose lives have been saved by the ACA,<br/>Reublicans have tried to end the ACA for 6 years. That means they've had 6 years to come up with a replacement. The fact that they have not announced one after 6 years is teilling.<br/><br/><a href=\"_URL_0_e#.1dn12o9zr\" title=\"_URL_0_e#.1dn12o9zr\" target=\"_blank\">_URL_0_...</a>", "346" ], [ "The morning after President <PERSON>'s election, the sun rose. He did not cause it.<br/>Contiguity is not causality.<br/>The trend in economic growth began began during the Obama years. We are all, including <PERSON>, the beneficiaries.<br/>The author elects to ignore that economic growth despite the economic catastrophe hand <PERSON> by <PERSON> '43.<br/>Not only does the author ignore Obama's contribution, he denigrated it in his last book. He has no credibility.<br/>Mr. <PERSON> seems to", "343" ], [ "Corporations have loyalty to shareholders, as the article says, to maximize profitability. They have no loyalty to governments. Apple manufactures its iPhones in China, doesn't pay its own employees particularly well, and sets up shell entities in other countries to avoid taxes. It's bringing back billions of dollars now solely because it's getting a huge tax break to do so. Will it manufacture its products in the U.S.?<br/>Has <PERSON> even spotlighted Apple's behavior? Has he stopped other manufacturers moving plants to Mexico?<br/>While <PERSON> may TALK about corporate selfishness for his political and personal aggrandizement, there is little evidence that he will, to use an expression, put his money where his mouth is.", "326" ], [ "<PERSON> helped ME down a rabbit hole too. In 2006, he wrote a story about a man who'd recently died and in his apartment were over 100 works of art, mostly stolen, as far back as the 1960's. I contacted Mr. <PERSON> knowing my aunt had a <PERSON> drawing stolen in 1968. He knew nothing about any Picassos.<br/>Several months later, another piece reported that while the stolen works were being cataloged, movers walked off with 2 of them. Their photos accompanied the article.<br/>BOTH, now twice stolen art works, belonged to my aunt.<br/>I contacted the FBI and about 5 years later, both were returned to my aunt's estate.<br/>Thanks again Mr. <PERSON>.", "515" ], [ "I worked for the NYC public schools for 35 years, primarily in schools serving students from impoverished backgrounds. Many, by the time they enter kindergarten are shell shocked, with gun violence, residential instability, parental drug involvement, siblings living apart, burned out of homes, living in shelters already a regular part of their lives. The impact of this devastating impoverishment on their capacity to lean, to focus, to control impulses compound their learning problems all through their schooling.....if they even make it to graduation. Chronic absenteeism exacerbates all other challenges to academic success.", "272" ], [ "The nation's chief law enforcement officer was questioned by the special counsel's office about possible crimes committed by his boss or members of his boss's staff...or even himself.<br/><br/>While extraordinary, <PERSON> is not the first. <PERSON>'s Attorney General <PERSON>, our \"Law And Order\" AG, lied for his boss, committed multiple Watergate crimes, was convicted and went to jail.", "488" ], [ "When school staff in NYC call Child Protective Services, it is to report<br/>SUSPICION of abuse or neglect. It is not an accusation, but a request for an investigation to determine if something is amiss.<br/>This went on not for days, but for years. It is hard to believe that people, including neighbors and others, didn't wonder if something was amiss. This may be the alarm bell for all of us that we have swung too far towards minding our own business.<br/>Am I my neighbor's keeper?", "704" ], [ "You ask \"Do you think reconnection and reconciliation should be a goal in cases of family estrangement? If so, why? If not, why not?\"<br/><br/>6 months ago after I e-mailed him to arrange a time to \"catch up\" by phone, my brother responded he wished to \" stop communication\" noting we've had a \"difficult relationship\". He ended politely. \"I hope you understand.\"<br/>I was enraged, responded that I felt punched in the stomach. We have not communicated since. I've communicated with his wife for the last 6 months. Nothing from him.<br/>I have gone from rage to resignation. My brother was accurate that our relationship had problems, but I worked to maintain a connection.<br/>I am now resigning. Whatever reasons prompted him (\"difficult\" does not explain it), he chose not to discuss it....for 6 months.<br/>I find the challenge is to not take it personally, but instead as some problem he has he cannot cope with.<br/>I now feel very sad, but the anger is abating.<br/>I am open to communicating should he contact me, but to have done this for 6 months has forever damaged trust.<br/>I love him. I care about him. Reconciliation in some fashion? Possible. Trust as before? Never. How could I?", "398" ], [ "I saw this production. As soon as <PERSON> makes her entrance, disabled and wheelchair bound, someone in the script who is shy but ambulatory, the play lost me.<br/> In the story, <PERSON> leaves the apartment regularly, on her own, with her mother assuming she's going to typing classes. How did she get into the school building? Into tne the classroom? And when <PERSON>'s mother learns that she never went to the classes, confronts her with her deception and asks where she's been going instead of classes, <PERSON>, on the stage, says \"I've just been going out walking\"(verbatim from the script) to which her mother responds \"Walking? In winter? Deliberately courting pneumonia?\"<br/>It's one thing to have a \"new take\" on a great play, but this production assaults reason.", "957" ], [ "<PERSON> today said he was \"very worried if in fact the <PERSON> administration was able to obtain a warrant lawfully about <PERSON> campaign activity.\" He added it would be like \"Watergate.\"<br/>If it's true, the consequences for <PERSON> will likely be catastrophic from both Democrats and Republicans. If false, will Republican congressmen turn on <PERSON> for making such a claim with no evidence?", "320" ], [ "I invite the New York Times to look at all photos of Ms. <PERSON> in the Oval Office. Excepting the one that was a photo op with Black College leaders, do any others show her on a couch with legs tucked under her?<br/>If her \"casual\" demeanor occurred only with Black College leaders in the Oval Office is that coincidence, or revealing her feelings about the importance of Black leaders in for a photo op?", "478" ], [ "This headline is similar to ones when Democrats were writing the Affordable Care Act. The ACA was cobbled together creating a contraptions that would satisfy hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and other special interests enough for congressional Democrats could vote for without any help from Republicans. Then Republicans, rather than work to improve it, used its imperfections as a cudgel to win votes.<br/>What ever <PERSON> and Republicans come up with will be no better, and likely much worse.", "346" ], [ "“I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact, so no, I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.”<br/>So we should do nothing until the \"degree\" of impact is accurately measured?<br/>Should we stop putting out fires until we determine \"precisely\" where the fire's damage will occur and the exact \"degree\" of damage that will occur?", "160" ], [ "\"It is a fact <PERSON> tapped my phones\" - says it's so but provides no evidence<br/>\"I grab women by their genitals without their permission\" - says it but says \"don't believe me\".<br/>\"3 million illegals voted for <PERSON>\" - says it but provides no evidence<br/>Shall I go on?<br/>In <PERSON>'s world only newsmen and the OMB are not to be believed.<br/>Worse is the willingness of congressional Republicans to treat him as their leader. THAT is believable. Sad.", "531" ], [ "With rare exception (<PERSON> being one) theater asks audiences to \"suspend disbelief\".<br/> \tIn addition to <PERSON> examples of how this production makes this impossible, <PERSON>, wheel chair bound. regularly leaves her shabby tenement apartment on her own, with her mother assuming she's going to typing classes. How does she navigate the city to the school building? How does she get into the classroom? This is 1930's St. Louis! When <PERSON>'s mother learns that <PERSON> stopped attending classes, confronts her with her deception and asks where she's been going instead of class, <PERSON>, on the stage, says \"I've just been going out walking\"(verbatim from the script) to which her mother responds \"Walking? In winter? Deliberately courting pneumonia?\"<br/> \tThis production, like many in recent years, tries to re-imagine a great play, . While its one thing to have a \"new take\" on a play, this one demands the audience not only suspend disbelief, but to ignore reality.", "957" ], [ "In addition to all else that occurred, Rep. <PERSON> said last week that he would provide the evidence he saw to the rest of the committee. He has not kept his word, and he's not offered any plausible answer for why HE should be privy to this \"evidence\" but no one else on the committee should.<br/><br/>This behavior is identical to President <PERSON>'s announcing by tweet that he has evidence that <PERSON> wire tapped him (or even \"surveiled\" him, but has still not provided the evidence.", "551" ], [ "The health care defeat was not because, as <PERSON> said \"Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.\" There were at least 2 essential factors<br/>1 - The Freedom Caucus, entrenched probably by gerrymandering, see government as the enemy and feel no election backlash.<br/>2 - Citizen's United leaves many legislators hostage to the dollars of powerful wealthy interests that want to maximize profitability rather than improve lives of citizens.<br/>Until both issues are addressed, even with a politically gifted President, we are in for rough times. With <PERSON>, as it has been since inauguration day,<br/>it's anybody's guess.", "1022" ], [ "That <PERSON> says it's \"a memory play\" is an inadequate fig leaf for allowing a character in a wheelchair who navigates Depression era St. Louis by herself to say, when asked by her mother what she does when skipping class, \"I've just been going out walking\"(verbatim from the script) to which her mother responds \"Walking? In winter? Deliberately courting pneumonia?\" There's a difference between poetic license and hallucination.<br/>A wheelchair bound <PERSON>? or <PERSON>? Unless the play itself is purposefully fantastical (Angels In America), the audience agrees to suspend disbelief, when what we're seeing on the stage is plausible. In this production, the director didn't keep his end of the agreement.", "957" ], [ "<PERSON> did to Iranians what Democrats need to do to Americans.<br/>Talk directly to the voters, not to <PERSON>, and not even to news interviewers.<br/>When asked by a reporter on television about the Health Care bill or taxes, looki into the camera and respond directly to the viewers \"Will this bill improve YOUR life?\"<br/>Take a lesson from <PERSON>. After all, it got him elected...perhaps with some help.", "849" ], [ "<PERSON> is creating an environment where only what he says are facts, and all other facts are either \"false\" or \"fake news.\" Where does that leave the nation?<br/>How can we have a conversation?<br/>And sadly, Republicans in Congress have been aiding and abetting this since <PERSON>'s election, and will aid and abet calling us to ignore these CBO projections.<br/>Our nation's leader lies [\"<PERSON> tapped my phone\"] and ignores facts and evidence. For the sake of our country Republicans in congress must not remain silent about it. What is more important to them, the survival of our Democracy or their political agenda?", "147" ], [ "President <PERSON> lies, cheats, and then when caught he changes his story to another lie or blames others. He's a 70 year old delinquent teenager.<br/>A few \"testy\" responses from congressional Republicans is like a parent tepidly admonishing a delinquent to behave. When will Republican leaders forcefully<br/>condemn and rebuke this tyrannical adolescent? <PERSON> MUST be confronted for the sake of our country.", "147" ], [ "The President repeated his wiretapping accusation for two weeks<br/>without providing his evidence. When not believed, he weaseled. There were quotes around wiretapped so he really meant other kinds of surveillance, still providing no evidence. Now, another tact. Britain did it. Will he next claim <PERSON>'s dog did it, like a student saying the dog ate his homework?<br/> \tAnd the millions of illegal aliens voters and the people bused to New Hampshire to vote illegally.<br/> \tWhat will it take for responsible Republicans in congress to publicly and loudly censure this man? Or are they like parents afraid of upsetting their delinquent child?", "551" ], [ "It has been conveyed to me often that “anyone can teach.” So if teaching is that easy, why not add marksmanship and other things and pay less than a living wage for the privilege of doing such a low level job.<br/> And when I would hear complaints that teachers don’t care and have it easy, I regularly respond “You’re right! What we need are dedicated people like you teaching in our school. Will you become a teacher?”<br/> Not one person ever took me up on the offer.", "168" ], [ "The photo of <PERSON> on the boat \"Monkey Business\" destroyed his political career.<br/>John Edward's extra marital affair ruined his career too.<br/>Why should <PERSON>'s affair with a porn star be less damaging?<br/>A guess - so much of what <PERSON> does and says is so indecent -<br/>mocking gold star parents, stiffing people he's hired, employing his daughter and son-in-law, neither qualified for their positions, mocking his own Attorney General, lying multiple times daily, including lying about his knowledge of paying off <PERSON>.....shall I go on?<br/>that we've becoming inured.", "776" ], [ "Just this week the Times pronounced the specialized high schools biased because few minority students gained admissions (link below). To address this problem the schools are considering changing the admissions test.<br/>Homelessness, chronic absenteeism, siblings living apart, parental incarceration and other ills have plagued these students for decades. Revising admissions tests will not address the underlying problem. Nor will ignoring it by pronouncing school staff or admissions tests racially biased.<br/>Chronic deprivation and neglect have a profound impact on learning. I know. I was a teacher and psychologist for the NYC public schools for 35 years.<br/><br/><a href=\"_URL_0_schools-new-york.html\" title=\"_URL_0_schools-new-york.html\" target=\"_blank\">_URL_0_...</a>", "724" ], [ "Statistics suggests sometimes race impacts choice of discipline. Remember, though, many suspensions are justified An 8 year old, where I was the psychologist, after biting the arm of the black security guard, trying to barricade himself in the principal's bathroom, trying to shove the copy machine off my desk, shove objects off of my desk, went into my closet. I closed the door, not knowing what else to do. The closet door locks automatically.<br/>After 8 seconds, I opened the door. The lad, with a broad grin on his face, said calmly with glee \"You locked me in a closet. That's child abuse.\"<br/>I finally was able to help him calm down by inviting him to make a photocopy of his hand.", "263" ], [ "\"many charters are open to all comers, which means their success doesn’t stem from skimming off the best\"<br/><br/> Families living in shelters, parents incarcerated or drug involved do not enter their children in charter school lottery's. Tens of thousands of students in New York City are homeless. Many schools in impoverished neighborhoods deal with chronic absenteeism. To say that the population of charters schools and public schools are identical is a myth purposely designed to fool the public.<br/> And as taxpayer dollars are siphoned off for these private and charter schools, less money is there for children who desperately need it.", "302" ], [ "See what happens if TPS school staff select the students the charter schools - students chronically absent or living in shelters or in an impoverished single parent household with a parent overwhelmed.<br/>Charters don't take those children. THAT is why some (not all) perform better. Some elementary schools have 30% or more with chronic absenteeism. No surprise charters who ease out such children (if they enroll at all) get higher test scores.", "302" ], [ "Harlem Children's Zone has funding to work with expectant mothers with mothers after the children are born and intervenes with children from their first year of life. Only when public schools are funded to provide identical services as Harlem children's zone Can you compare the two programs. HCZ may get funding from organizations whose agenda is too weak in public education.", "639" ], [ "President <PERSON> knew <PERSON> had lied to <PERSON> weeks before it became public, but kept that from <PERSON> until the Washington Post was about to publish the story, essentially abetting <PERSON>'s lie (see link below). The White House has never adequately explained this.<br/> Additionally, <PERSON> himself was spreading the rumor that <PERSON> was involved in a pizza parlor child sex ring and <PERSON> still appointed him<br/>(link also below)<br/><a href=\"_URL_1_s-told-weeks-ago-that-<PERSON>-misled-vice-president-about-russia-contacts-white-house-says/?utm_term=.eb476c59ee38\" title=\"_URL_1_s-told-weeks-ago-that-flynn-misled-vice-president-about-russia-contacts-white-house-says/?utm_term=.eb476c59ee38\" target=\"_blank\">_URL_1_...</a><br/><br/><a href=\"_URL_0_\" title=\"_URL_0_\" target=\"_blank\">_URL_2_...</a>", "89" ], [ "In 2011 your paper reported that at 42 percent of the city’s 700 elementary schools, one in five students missed a month or more of school (link below).<br/>The impact on students, their regularly attending classmates and the teacher is incalculable. Consider investigating factors that differentiate schools that succeed from those that don't other than race, including single parent household, living in shelters, parent incarcerated or involved with drugs. These explain poor academic achievement much more than race.<br/><a href=\"_URL_0_\" title=\"_URL_0_\" target=\"_blank\">_URL_1_...</a>", "272" ], [ "The Supreme Court eviscerated the Voting Rights Act in 2013. “Our country has changed,” Chief Justice <PERSON> wrote (I'm quoting from the New York Times article on that decision). The court, and the Chief Justice, were wrong. Evidence is overwhelming. Let's hope even conservative justices have the courage to now acknowledge what is undeniable, because the <PERSON> White House, now investigating \"voter fraud\", will surely attempt to suppress voting of Democratic leaning constituents.", "250" ], [ "To recap - <PERSON>, warned of <PERSON> lie to <PERSON> about his talk with Russian Ambassador and spy <PERSON>, does not inform <PERSON> of this. keeps <PERSON> head of the NSA, firing him only when our press exposes it. The day after firing FBI director <PERSON> because of this \"Russia thing\", <PERSON> meets with <PERSON> in the oval office, learned from Russian press because our press is barred, and in the meeting <PERSON> reveals to <PERSON> sensitive information potentially dangerous to our allies after relentlessly excoriating <PERSON> for carelessly using non-secure e-mail servers with some possible classified information. Hollywood writers now have competition", "397" ], [ "You note Justice <PERSON> indicated that gerrymandering based on partisanship rather than race was Constitutional.<br/>1 - if race and partisanship are indistinguishable factors (often they are) what then?<br/>2 - legal gerrymandering remains politicians choose voters, rather than voters choosing politicians. It can be no clearer than the 2012 election where more votes were cast for Democrats in congressional races but more Republicans were elected. Whatever we have now, it is not Democracy.", "273" ] ]

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[ [ "The failure of some US police departments to fairly deal with people of all colors and backgrounds is one of the primary indicators of how systemic racism is alive and well here. The uniformed paramilitary organizations (police, sheriffs, firefighters, ambulance corps, etc.) that traditionally serve American communities have their own histories, traditions, and cultures, some of which reinforce this systemic racism. If the federal government can’t (or won’t) step in to help retrain and rebuild the units and individuals that have the most egregious records, marginalized people will continue to be harassed, jailed, or murdered at higher rates than everyone else. Is this the America we want?", "606" ], [ "Both our kids went to private colleges where they received significant scholarships. They each took on about $20K in additional loans and my husband and I borrowed the rest. Both kids also participated in AmeriCorps programs that offer loan forgiveness of around 5-6 thousand a year, so they've been cutting that indebtedness in half (while working for less than poverty wages). Aside from the craziness around loan forgiveness that's described here, there's also the issue of interest rates. All of our loan rates hovered initially between 7.5 and 8.25 percent, and still do. I don't think highway robbery should be amongst the government's goals, no matter who is running it.", "805" ], [ "We raised and educated our two high-achieving kids K-12 in a suburban, 3-building, Putnam County (NY) school district that was reasonably well funded but didn’t have the kinds of programs that would have benefited high achievers. The local PTA and Education Foundation were sources of decent fundraising amounts, but nowhere near what some of the California districts you describe are raising. We always did what we could to donate to both groups, and I volunteered with the PTA for many years.<br/><br/>Folks who could afford to do so sent their children to private schools in Westchester. We chose to send our kids to private colleges once they graduated (and we’re still paying for that), but the differences they reported once they got there were stark.<br/><br/>I was educated in both California and New York public schools (as well as in colleges in Massachusetts and California) and was around when Prop 13 was approved. In my view, when property taxes make up the bulk of the revenue for a school district, disparities can’t help but occur. “Local control” is the code word, but what it means is to ensure that educational opportunities will never be equal in America. <br/><br/>I support our former Assemblywoman <PERSON>’s quest to fund New York schools at the state and not the local level. I’d like to see California do the same.", "302" ], [ "When I was just five, I watched my dad being carried out of the house into am ambulance because of a hemorrhaging ulcer. They removed two thirds of his stomach as a result. In those days (mid-1950s) the only treatments were antacids like Gelusil (which he took everywhere with him) and a mild diet. In the mid-1980s I got my own ulcer, which was repaired by Tagamet and careful eating (I don't have any evidence of H Pylori). My advice to current ulcer patients: keep a food -- and beverage! -- log and figure out what's making you sick. In my case it turned out to be Jack Daniel's and smoking.", "834" ], [ "\"Don’t get me wrong. I wish we had a president who had actual convictions and knowledge, and who was interested in delivering real good to real Americans. But it’s hard to maintain outrage at a man who is a political pond skater — one of those little creatures that flit across the surface, sort of fascinating to watch, but have little effect as they go.\"<br/><br/>And that's exactly what he wants you to think.", "441" ], [ "In some ways, <PERSON> was the <PERSON> prototype. Back when he was running for governor, I remember seeing ads that questioned his ethics as a prosecutor. But no one seemed to mind. Later, he showed an offensive and sometimes scary demeanor around news reporters (remember the \"none of your business\" response to a question about where his kids went to school?) He publicly scorned teachers and government workers, and threw some trusted staffers under the bus during Bridgegate. Are we seeing a pattern here? Had he not had the audacity lock up <PERSON> father he might well have been a <PERSON> insider.", "201" ], [ "Sitting here in California's Inland Empire on a sunny February day projected to reach 80 degrees, I couldn't be happier than to read everyone's comments about a snow day in New York. Having moved here last year after 40 years in the Hudson Valley, I can genuinely say I miss that weather you're having. Somebody make a snow angel for me, please!", "936" ], [ "I worked for years with Westchester/Putnam school district administrators and my sense is that -- other than genuine crime or corruption at the district level -- snow days drew the most criticism by far. Parents (and I was a working mother of two) always found fault if the storm didn't seem to \"warrant\" a closing, complaining that they had to scramble for child care or miss work. I often wondered what the response would have been had a bus slid off the road in a storm. Thankfully, that never happened.", "100" ], [ "Every time there's a piece discussing anything to do with food, health, or especially parenting, the quasi-experts come out of the woodwork. That's to be expected, and I think most of the time it's pretty easy to glean what you can use from other people. What doesn't work so well for me is the folks who insist on blaming parents, or those who say \"I ate that/drank that/did or didn't do that and I turned out just fine, so shape up and get over it.\" Chill out, people: everyone isn't the same.", "263" ], [ "Back in 1985 I went to Macy's flagship store in Herald Square to shop for a wedding ring. Two young salesmen at that part of the jewelry department were so rude and condescending -- while I was making arguably the most important purchase of my life to date -- that I left in tears and swore never to shop there again. I bought the ring I wanted at Abraham & Straus instead.", "782" ], [ "I lost my enthusiasm for department stores when B. Altman closed its flagship store on Fifth Avenue. When I worked in the neighborhood I spent countless lunch hours just wandering the floors and admiring the old-fashioned accouterments and customer service. Where else, anywhere, were all of the lamp shades on the main floor changed from white to red in celebration of the holidays?", "782" ], [ "I have had at least three different careers in my nearly 50-year work life. In part because I took time off to have two children, and in part because a commute to a big city from our suburban home was too demanding and expensive, I found myself with declining in salary and benefits as time went on, but I knew my family couldn’t survive without my income. My husband, who had his own commercial photography business for 20 years, re-educated in his 40s and became a union X-ray technologist at a Trauma One medical center, which helped to stem our losses and even left us with a small pension. <br/><br/>The bottom line is that if you have a family and you want it to thrive, you do what you have to do to get by. Times ARE changing and perhaps the biggest challenge is learning to accept, and build on, that reality.", "222" ], [ "Let's not forget that manufacturing jobs in the US have been traditionally union jobs. While nurses and some other hospital workers are still unionized -- at least in places like New York, despite the best efforts of county executives like Westchester County's <PERSON> to bust the unions -- the trend is toward non-union, often part-time or per diem work. More support for organized labor across the country might well help -- but with Republicans in power, public workers will continue to be treated like pariahs.", "410" ], [ "The partisan fury, I think, was based largely on the perception that Big Government was telling people what to do. Helping people to live longer was never part of the Republican agenda.<br/><br/>Amongst the conservatives I've known and worked with (and there were many) the \"Nanny State\" -- which tells people they must be insured, tries to regulate their ability to kill one another with firearms, and insists on protecting consumers instead of big corporations -- was the biggest enemy. <br/><br/>Ironically, seeking to limit women's healthcare choices and telling Americans who they can and cannot love, has never been viewed as \"overreach\".", "369" ], [ "The decision to become a parent is a choice. It’s not destiny, it’s not the Ultimate Goal, and ideally it applies equally to men as well as to women. It would never occur to me even to wonder why some folks have children and some don’t, let alone ask them. After more than 30 years, a day doesn’t go by that I’m not grateful for my kids. That said, it’s not a task easily undertaken. Chronic conditions, mental health challenges, physical injuries, and gender identity issues have all played big parts in my partner’s and my parenting experience. It’s humbling on a good day and often painful. What we found to be a good starting point with both of our kids was to provide as wide a variety as possible of books, toys, costumes, and activities, and always let them choose. I recently reminded one of our kids that a relative had given them a baby doll, already dressed in pink and lace, and that doll was promptly named <PERSON>. My kid responded that it was a testament to our parenting that until I reminded them of this story, they’d never suspected that there was anything at all unusual about that naming.", "156" ], [ "What is especially tragic about <PERSON>’s ham-handed approach both to communication and to governing is his pathological need to undo everything that’s perceived as a liberal development—from the few common-sense gun regulations that actually existed, to protection of endangered species, to his approach to public lands, climate change, clean air, and clean water. <br/><br/>For years the US Army and the major reinsurers of the world have not only accepted the facts about global warming, but crafted policy that assumes that adaptation to inevitable, serious changes will be the only way humankind can respond. Leave it to <PERSON> to ignore this reality and play to the lowest-common-denominator fears and imaginings of his cronies and supporters.", "620" ], [ "I spent a lot of time over the past couple of days listening to Republican apologists explain why Obamacare is in its death throes and can’t be saved. <br/><br/>The phrase “market-driven” occurred repeatedly in these discussions.<br/>For years I worked at an administrative level in religious and educational institutions, and there was always someone (I called them rabid shareholders) who insisted that if the place were only “run like a business” everything would be just fine. <br/><br/>But it never worked. Why? Because the “products” of schools and churches, hospitals and governments (as important as they are) are neither tangible nor specific. Yes, they can be reduced to a test score or a recovery rate, but those figures never truly represent the value (or lack thereof) of what is occurring.<br/><br/>Trump was elected because so many Americans believed that a properly driven “market” should be able to fix everything. After all, he told them so. And this most recent debacle occurred because enough Americans determined that all of them are dead wrong, and spoke out.", "99" ], [ "Here in Riverside, California, I sang with the Riverside Resistance Revival Chorus, a group of women, mostly older, who appear from time to time at progressive themed marches and other programs. We dress all in white to echo the legacy of the Suffragists. In front of Riverside's Historic Courthouse, the students who planned and produced the march here spoke eloquently about the need for change, and brought tears to everyone's eyes when the names of the 17 dead in Parkland were read. Perhaps the most meaningful act of all, for me, occurred when the young organizers came to the chorus members, one by one, and hugged and thanked us. My response: No. Thank YOU.", "917" ], [ "This is arguably the most complicated social/religious/political topic in our world right now, and yet it really shouldn't be. The problem with the \"rare and legal\" argument is that is offers a slippery jumping-off point for what constitutes \"rare.\" The problem with the \"respect life and give up the baby\" argument is that pregnancy itself can be a wrenching physical, emotional, and financial challenge for many women. As long as women can get pregnant when they don't want to, they need to be able to get abortions on demand.", "123" ], [ "Thank you. The author wrote: \"An abortion clinic, for a few hundred dollars, ends the life of a child whose upbringing may strain her mother’s resources. Full stop. The woman will leave the clinic still burdened by every single problem she came in with.\" This observation is wrong, as well as being cruel and short-sighted. As a mother-to-be with good health insurance, a loving supporting husband, and a secure job, I considered abortion because pregnancy itself was so hard on my body. After being hospitalized for two weeks and coming to terms with the fact that I would be sick my entire pregnancy, I went on to give birth, twice. Nearly 30 years later, we couldn't be happier. That said, what if I'd had the same pregnancy symptoms but a job that demanded I be on my feet all day long and unable to take frequent breaks to vomit or rest? Those are physical consequences that can affect anyone during pregnancy.", "123" ], [ "As a school p.r. person in the town where my kids went to school K-12, I was rebuffed by the administration because I wanted to do a press release celebrating a retiring music teacher. I understand why they felt that singling out one teacher might seem offensive to other retirees, but I still argued that this one man had touched the lives of every single student in the school from grades K through 4, and he'd done it well.", "1000" ], [ "My piano learning experience was a little different from yours. I studied from kindergarten until the first year of college with individual teachers in Pasadena and White Plains, but I suspect that some innate inability on my part prevented me from excelling the way I'd hoped. I often wondered if the fact that <PERSON> lesson time preceded mine had anything to do with my lack of achievement.", "977" ], [ "I worked for the two <PERSON> small-town weekly newspaper in Putnam County, NY, for exactly five years. Mrs. <PERSON> was my daily boss, but we saw <PERSON> on numerous occasions and attended events with the family. I'm an unapologetic left-wing/progressive who was in need of a communications job after I was downsized from a 15-year career at a national nonprofit. <PERSON> met me for coffee, we talked for 45 minutes, he made me an offer, and we shook hands. I found that working in journalism was what I should have been doing all along. Despite his (and my) clear political biases, he never asked me to change a story. Because of <PERSON>, I was able to do one of the last in-depth interviews with <PERSON>, and a brief but intense interview with <PERSON>.", "798" ], [ "Did you even read my second post above? You're doing exactly what I said I was trying not to do. All I am saying is that this man took a chance on hiring an editor/reporter and gave me an opportunity to continue putting my kids through college while actually doing something I was happy to do. I'm the parent of a trensgender adult, part of a labor union family, a <PERSON> voter, and a proud feminist. Try listening a little harder.", "875" ], [ "Congratulations for figuring all of this out so succinctly. Please share the data upon which you based your conclusions. <br/><br/>I ask because in my experience the \"safe spaces\" concept, along with \"trigger warnings\" -- both popular targets of right-wing nut-jobs who seem to believe anyone in college these days is a spolied brat -- have been huge concerns both of young women and of young LGBTQ students, as much as of people of color.", "682" ], [ "While being an American at this moment in history is mostly sad, embarrassing, and worrying, there are things we can remember that may give us hope.<br/>--The US Military, along with the world's prominent insurers, have not only accepted climate change but planned ahead, with adaptation to (not elimination of) the impending problems at the center of their planning.<br/>-- Individual states (like mine) and municipalities across the country will continue to promote green programs because they make sense. Here in my part of California, solar panels and wind farms are clearly a growing trend.<br/>-- People like me will continue to buy and drive hybrid and all-electric vehicles, not because we're latte-drinking, Birkenstock-wearing hippies, but because they save us money and cut down on pollution.<br/><br/>What is heartening about all this is that these things and more will continue to happen despite who’s in the White House. Grass roots activism is thriving. <br/><br/>As long as <PERSON> doesn’t get us all killed in a nuclear war, we may come out of this more self-sufficient than ever.", "223" ] ]

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