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Laketa Cole: Lifetime tenure at the public trough
Isn’t that amazing. There must be eleventy-thousand people unemployed in Ohio, faithfully circling want-ads, showing up for interviews, waiting by the phone for that boilerplate rejection line: “We’ll get in touch if something opens up.”
If all the unemployed people in Ohio lined up at the same unemployment office, they would reach from here to futility. According to the latest...
I’ve seen the face of Nanny Government, and it’s not pretty
"Please, Sir, may I have another?"
As a Joe College freshman at Western Michigan University, I spent most of my first day on campus standing in line at registration to pick up my class schedule. When I finally got to the table, footsore and brain-numb, I found out I was in the “C-D” line, when my card was just an arm’s reach away in the “A-B” line for “Bronson.”
“Please,”...
It’s a new day, it’s a new life, and I’m feeling good
From where I sit, the view has improved a lot.
I used to look through a thin sliver of glass at the north end of the 19th floor of the Enquirer Building. If I leaned over my desk just right, I could catch the entire breathtaking panorama of the Tower Place rooftop parking lot.
But right now I am looking out my window at an October sky as Windex clean as freshly washed windows. It’s framed...
