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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Will media cover McCain fairly?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Alleged media bias in favor of Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. Hillary Clinton made its way into a Saturday Night Live skit, a skit Clinton actually mentioned in a debate with Obama. Yet ABC news was later accused of hammering Obama during a later debate with overly harsh questions such as whether Obama wears a flag lapel pin. Now that Obama appears to have the Democratic nomination, will the media favor Obama or McCain?
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Homeschooling, CRCTs: Let parents take over?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Dunwoody parent Darby Christopher wonders whether she was effective homeschooling her seventh grade son, until he saw the recent dismal test scores by Georgia public school students on the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests.
Now Christopher feels much better about homeschooling. Which begs the question: could homeschool parents do much worse than the public schools are doing in imparting basic knowledge to students?
Atlanta: Saving gas impossible here?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Brenda Constan writes the bike lanes are rare here in Atlanta- they don’t go to shopping centers and other locations like schools and churches where you need to go. “In Atlanta, commuting by mass transit is a Herculean undertaking,” she writes, particularly if you want to go from intown Atlanta to the suburbs- forget about it.
In other words, if you want to save fuel in Atlanta - this is not the best place to live. Is she right? Does this city encourage us - in many different ways to burn more and more expensive fossil fuel?
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