The death statistics represent real people
The front page article on the opioid deaths prompted me to write. My son, Jonathan, died from complications from a heroin overdose on his 26th birthday, Jan. 31, 2016. As I looked at the number graph included in the article I burst into tears. My son is not a statistic.
All those numbers represent human beings, lives lost to this scourge in our midst. Just as dealing with his death is so agonizing, even now, so to is trying to come up with solutions.
When are the Democrats and special counsel going to relent
There is no there there!
Two years and still no Russian collusion.
The coup d’état didn’t happen! Enough already!
Maybe it was the last White House that gave us the banana republic
So I read the op-ed by Grant Woods, Terry Goddard, etc., about how the common citizen has nothing to fear from having their personal information shared after making even a small ($50) campaign contribution.
Really?
How about what the Obama IRS did to the “True the Vote” people and many other conservative non-profits beginning in 2010. This was done to silence conservatives.
The founders of that particular group were subjected not only to personal IRS audits, but also had their businesses harassed by multiple agencies like ATF, FBI, OSHA, etc.
And the Obama administration got away with it because Eric Holder ran the Justice Department. It is all well documented.
So individuals should know that if they give money to conservative groups, or are even registered Republicans, they likely face years of harassment by the next Democratic administration.
Talk about banana republic politics.
ACLU found evidence of screening out students by charter schools
Editorial columnist Joanna Allhands makes the statistical error of using aggregated Arizona charter schools data to
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She also assumes that demographic factors alone will indicate whether schools cherry pick their student population.
She doesn’t address whether charter schools place conditions on enrollment, such as mandatory parent involvement as defined by the charter school, perspective student submission of a written essay, and proof that the student hasn’t been suspended from a previous school.
All of these factors are better indicators of cherry picking students than student demographic composition.
A recent ACLU of Arizona investigation of Arizona charter schools found evidence of these practices, which are illegal under state law. (See https:// www.acluaz.org/en/press-releases/ many-arizona-charter-schoolshave-unlawful-or-discriminatoryenrollment-policies-aclu)