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Mitchel Olszak: Letters to the editor play their part in marketplace of ideas
“Why did you run that letter?” It’s a question I’ve been asked many times over the years regarding various letters to the editor that appear in the New Castle News.
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Mitchel Olszak: A predictable public debate on shooting
A lot of people were wondering what the National Rifle Association would have to say about the Newtown, Conn., massacre. And the NRA wanted it that way. Maintaining official silence for a week after a shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 26 people, including 20 students, the gun rights organization promised a plan that would seriously address this sort of violence.
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Mitchel Olszak on Connecticut Shooting: Will another rampage matter?
It’s my expectation that last week’s deadly school shooting in Connecticut will produce a series of predictable results. We’ll see the outpourings of grief and expressions of outrage. Less visible will be the struggles of families who lost loved ones and are trying to cope with the horror thrust upon them.
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Mitchel Olszak: Should Nobel Prize recipients live up to award’s ideals?
If there’s one place you’d expect to find support for free expression, it would be among Nobel Prize recipients. The people who win these awards almost have to be the sort who think big and manage to do so outside the box.
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Mitchel Olszak: Evidence of global warming grows
A lot of questions swirl around the subject of global warming. Here’s the main one: Is it really happening? Despite skeptics and dismissals, an increasing body of scientific work appears to confirm warming and its impacts.
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Mitchel Olszak: What’s wrong with bagging a Bigfoot?
Do you think it’s OK to shoot a unicorn? Should hunters be allowed to bag dragons? And what’s the creel limit on Loch Ness monsters? These questions might seem silly, but there are people who take them seriously.
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Mitchel Olszak: Citizens need to restore civility, sense to political campaigns
“It’s not my fault” That was the subliminal message delivered by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito last week when he offered comments on the infamous Citizens United decision.
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Mitchel Olszak: Is this a new era for immigration reform? Maybe not
Last Tuesday wasn’t exactly a debacle for Republicans. But from some of the reaction coming out of the GOP, you might make that assumption. Apparently, many Republicans expected big gains from this year’s general election, up to and including a recapturing of the White House. Instead, the results left both parties pretty much where they had been, with barely perceptible gains by Democrats in Washington.
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Mitchel Olszak: Negative campaign advertising overwhelms process
By now, I’m starting to feel like that little girl in the YouTube video. You know, the one where she’s sobbing because she’s tired of hearing about the presidential campaign. Her mother seeks to console her with the fact it’s almost over.
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Mitchel Olszak on Your Schools: Lockley vote leaves major mess
So now what? Last week’s vote by the New Castle school board to kill the Lockley school consolidation project — followed by the decision of superintendent George Gabriel to resign — leaves a lot of questions in the city school system.
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