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A government we didn't get
June Atkinson can be forgiven if she feels that she's still campaigning for the job she first won by statewide election more than four years ago. Atkinson won the race for Superintendent of Public Instruction in 2004 and again last fall, but she says, in effect, that she has yet to be given the job of running state schools.
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The best investment you'll ever make
A father sits at the kitchen table, alone with his anxiety and stress. He takes one last slug from his glass of whiskey. He marches into his little girl's room and wakes her up. “Julia. Julia.” Julia wakes up but doesn't move. She tries to hold back tears, because she knows what's coming. Her father climbs into bed behind her.  More>>