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• Dogged advocates, foes keep park debate going

  10/29/2009 10:14 PM

  News, they told us in college journalism class, is whatever happens within a two-mile radius of your home. Or, better yet, within two miles of your editor’s home. I’m not sure that holds true anymore, now that news is whatever is on one’s Facebook page, or cable channel, or Twitter updates.

• Futility of the drug war revealed by COMBAT

  10/22/2009 09:32 PM

  Jackson County has been financing the war on drugs with a quarter-cent sales tax since 1989, and voters are being asked to re-up for at least seven more years. I look at the drug war pretty much the same way as the conflict in Iraq.