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  • Town Hall: venue for free speech

    Town Hall: venue for free speech

    March 4, 2005

    Built by a group of suffragettes in 1921, Town Hall’s original goal was to make educated and politically sophisticated voters out of New York’s men and women. Its roots go back to 1894, when six prominent...

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  • Marian Anderson returns to Town Hall

    Marian Anderson returns to Town Hall

    March 4, 2005

    NEW YORK — Marian Anderson, the renowned classical singer, first performed on the stage of Town Hall here in 1924. Last month Anderson became the 28th American honored in the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) Black Heritage...

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  • Strong mayor vs. democracy in Dallas

    Strong mayor vs. democracy in Dallas

    March 4, 2005

    OPINION In early May, Dallas voters will have a chance to dramatically change the way the city operates. Instead of a “city manager” form of government, Mayor Laura Miller and others want to see a “strong...

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  • Budget cut blues

    Budget cut blues

    March 4, 2005

    OPINION I live in Cleveland, Ohio. A few months ago we learned that, according to the most recent Census Bureau statistics, we now live in the poorest city in the nation. We also learned that of...

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  • Bring back the corporate income tax  before it goes the way of the dodo

    Bring back the corporate income tax before it goes the way of the dodo

    March 4, 2005

    OPINION Like a comet losing its mass as it makes its way through the cosmos, so too is the corporate income tax shedding its fiscal mass. With help from the anti-tax cabal in Washington, corporate income...

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