2007.11.30
Discuss Friday's local commentary
Pre-K is an excellent investment
Dan B. Fleming
Fleming, professor emeritus of education at Virginia Tech, lives in Blacksburg.
A major issue in the upcoming session of the Virginia General Assembly is whether to expand prekindergarten education for an additional 17,000 at-risk 4-year-old children. There is considerable research showing such education will help students achieve better in later years.
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Why people hate Hillary
Megan Beyer
Beyer, who lives in Alexandria, is a journalist and commentator on the PBS women's political talk show "To the Contrary." Her husband, Don Beyer, served as Virginia's lieutenant governor from 1990 through 1998 and was the Democratic nominee for governor in 1997.
I look like Hillary Clinton. I used to deny it. But in 1993 when my then 18-month-old baby saw her on television, crawled to the screen and started kissing it saying, "Mommy!" I had to admit, there was something there.
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Read today's letters here.
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I love Dan Fleming advocating another unproven government program, saying it could all be financed by the 'small number of families' who pay estate tax or those who make over $200K a year.
Very nice of him to volunteer somebody else's money.
I think from now on, liberals who write a letter or column advocating this or that program\should prove their sincerity and dedication by donating their entire life savings to the cause before they ask others to pay.
Comment by Josh — November 30, 2007 @ 6:11 pm