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$100 million to accountants? | DC lawyer again blasts Interior over handling of Indian trust COMMENTARY Responding to spokesman Ross Swimmer’s posting on this Web site, Lee Helfrich portrays the Interior Department as “Blunderland” and questions the agency’s sincerity and competence. 
Where's the outrage? | Just who decided that higher education is for elites only? COMMENTARY Wick Sloane, former CFO of the University of Hawaii system, has an expert’s view of the strangling of college access for so many Americans, and it’s a story begging to be covered by every news organization.
Cobell v. Interior, aka Jarndyce v. Jarndyce | Interior Indian trustee responds to posting COMMENTARY Ross Swimmer says critical piece by DC attorney Lee Helfrich ‘reflected commonly held misunderstandings’ and offers answers to the questions she posed.
Eulogy | A tribute to three public figures who died in recent days COMMENTARY Jack Anderson, Eugene McCarthy and William Proxmire set strong examples for the rest of us. Washington attorney Martin Lobel writes about the legacy of all three.
Original intent v. business interests | Supreme Court gets case of ‘location incentives,’ aka ‘endless corporate welfare’ COMMENTARY At issue is a DaimlerChrysler/Ohio case, but this is a story almost everywhere: Are localities' subsidies to attract industries anything more than a scam?
Letter from Austin | DeLay Judge Shuffle Underlines Texas Judicial Election Problems COMMENTARY Partisan races, $1 million or more in contributions needed and guess who the big donors are. Some are looking to change this court system
The general's postscript | Odom: Want stability in the Middle East? Get out of Iraq! COMMENTARY In his last piece for NiemanWatchdog.org, retired Gen. William Odom argued that all the terrible things the Bush administration says would happen if we pulled our troops out of Iraq are happening already. In a new postscript, Odom writes that the converse is true as well: Bush says he wants to bring democracy and stability to the greater Middle East -- but in fact the only way to achieve that goal is to get out of Iraq now.
Persistence, please | Officials won’t answer your question? Ask again COMMENTARY Follow the lead of Robert Siegel, who repeatedly asked FEMA head Chertoff how it was possible he didn’t know about the people in the New Orleans Convention Center.
Productivity comes first | News media profits undermine reporting COMMENTARY Michael Bugeja says lines may blur, but not the bottom line: profits. And it is the profession and the community that suffer.
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