2007.06.30
Comment on Saturday's editorials
A return to segregation
A Supreme Court ruling says race can't be a factor in seeking racial balance. What, do tell, should schools use to achieve equality and diversity?
A narrow, radical majority on the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a half-century of progress toward integration of minorities. In finding the desegregation plans of Seattle and Louisville, Ky., schools unconstitutional, the justices might as well have said, "Stick with your own kind."
No ordinary library
Had Roanoke ignored the citizen uproar over a Texas consultant's 1996 study and followed his recommendation to close several of the city's five branch libraries, the "heart" of the historic Gainsboro community -- its library -- would have stopped beating. Thankfully, it didn't.
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