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OUR ARTICLE ON LOCAL EFFORTS TO oppose ultra-conservatives [Politics, July 10] included a quote from Ken Blalack stating that he helped lead the campaign for school-board recall in Vista, California. While Blalack's group, the Organization of Mainstream Activists, is active against the religious right, Blalack was not...
Should cigarettes be under stricter controls? That long-burning issue heated up on two fronts last week. After years of pushing toward regulating nicotine as an addictive drug -- and meeting resistance from Congress and the tobacco lobby -- the Food and Drug Administration passed the issue to the White House. The...
After all, banning smoking in the Yard would still leave the rest of the Square--indeed the rest of the known universe--for people to light up. The restaurant where I work offers an entire floor as well as several other tables for smokers' use, as do many other establishments...
While banning smoking from the Yard wouldn't cause any undue injustice, it would improve the quality of my life immensely. For example, I would not walk to class every morning over a carpet of the detritus smokers leave behind in the evident assumption that the Cigarette Butt Fairy is...
When attorney Jack Bryant and his wife began scouting the suburbs around Austin, Texas, in 1988, they wanted the best schools for their two sons. Eventually, they settled in Round Rock, a predominantly white, professional town whose system, Bryant says, "gave us the best bang for our buck." But in...