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The main newspaper in Portland, the Oregonian, is showing which side it's on--and it sure isn't that of Portland teachers. Andrea Hektor explains. Portland teachers, parents and students standing up for quality education for all IN THE midst of heated...

by Bob Simpson When you wage war on the public schools, you’re attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You’re not a conservative, you’re a vandal.” —Garrison Keeler The 2013 Chicago Public Schools(CPS) budget...

On the morning of Thursday, July 12, 2012, Yahoo’s interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, still believed he was going to be named permanent CEO of the company. He had just one meeting to go. That meeting was a board meeting to be held that day in a large...

States and localities owe far, far more than their citizens know. Maria Pappas, the treasurer of Cook County, Illinois, got tired of being asked why local taxes kept rising. Betting that the answer involved the debt that state and local governments...

THAT LETHAL FIVE-CAR pile-up on Highway 20 near the Potter Valley turn-off? Captain Randy Johnson of the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department kicked it off when he stopped to make a left turn into his private, unmarked driveway across a double...