On a frigid evening in January, more than 10,000 people gathered outside a 13th century cathedral in this Baltic capital to protest the government's handling of Latvia's economic crisis and demand early elections. ...more

February 2, 2009

High school seniors are working these days to meet college-application deadlines and tuition. Since 1982, according to the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, college tuition and fees have increased 439 percent. That is about three times as much as the increase in median family income. ...more

January 3, 2009

The gloating didn't last long. A few weeks ago, German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck proclaimed that "Anglo-Saxon capitalism" is "finished." Steinbrueck stuck it to the hated Anglo-Saxon capitalists just in time - before he got too distracted by the exigencies of managing a $681 billion program to re-finance distressed German banks. ...more

October 22, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama has found something that eluded him during the primary season - contrast. ...more

July 13, 2008

"In life there is good and bad" was the headline of your Monday editorial. Yes there is; one thing that is very bad is a small conservative town misrepresented by the embarrassingly prejudiced scribbling of a very liberal local editor. In an editorial printed by another paper and printed in Highlands Today, saying it's hard for see how the new workplace law allowing firearms in locked vehicles owned by concealed firearm permit holders could pass, clearly shows alliance with anti-second amendment partisans whose claims and views have been consistently disproved by statistics and recently debunked by the Supreme Court. ...more

July 10, 2008