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Matter of Opinion archive for June 30, 2008

MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2008

The 1970s: We were richer then?

(The cast of The Brady Bunch is shown in this 1975 AP file photo)From a Sunday column by Robyn Blumner:The work of Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren indicates there is a coming collapse of the middle class. Warren compares the median American family of 1970…

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Loose Thread Monday

(A jogger runs into the sunset along High Drive. S-R Archive photo by Christopher Anderson.)When you move away,you see how much depends on the pace of the days—how much depended on the haze we waded through each summer, visible heat, wavy and discursive as the…

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Our Saturday view

Saturday's editorial called for an update of the 1872 mining act, which is virtually the same as it was in that year, over 13 decades ago.Times have definitely changed, and while mining isn't dead, it needs to learn to share space with equally important uses…

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