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10.01.2009 9:00 pm

Curing ‘cost disease’ and keeping kids in college

SIU Edwardsville Prof. Bryon Ehlmann bikes home from campus in 2005. PHOTO BY SAM LEONE/PD

SIU Edwardsville Prof. Bryon Ehlmann bikes home from campus in 2005. PHOTO BY SAM LEONE/PD

Glenn Poshard, president of Southern Illinois University and a former U.S. representative, is back on the stump these days, warning that state budget cuts soon may…

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12.09.2008 10:00 pm

MINK Column: Stop lying to our kids about college

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
By R.J. Matson, Post-Dispatch

By R.J. Matson, Post-Dispatch

IT’S TIME WE STOPPED lying to our kids.

We tell them that they are our future. We encourage them to follow their dreams and work hard to achieve anything they want. We hammer into their heads that the key…

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09.16.2008 10:00 pm

MINK column: Enough about Palin and Biden

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

Obama, McCain at 9/11 ceremonies

 After two weeks’ vacation and more than 1,700 Midwestern highway miles, I came home looking for some wisdom. I found it on the editorial page of Sunday’s Post-Dispatch — in a letter to the editor by Dorothy Anderson of Spanish Lake:
“I have…

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