May 17, 2007 edition



Nutter tapped for mayor;

Quinones-Sanchez tapped

for Council . . . The full story

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COVER STORY:

She’s tops in teaching

There are a lot of good teachers out there, but Barbra Burke, the literacy teacher/coach at the Austin Meehan Middle School, is tops.
Lawrence Brennan, one of her 14-year-old students, will tell you that.
"She’s like a mom teacher, there to help you," he said. "She’ll go over details, show you easier ways of doing something. She made my reading level go up from a 5.5 to a 9.8."
Her students aren’t the only ones who realize she’s special.

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EDITORIAL

Ya better watch out

You know the old saying, "You can’t judge a book by its cover." Taken literally, it’s true. This is the real world, however — a world in which terrorists found a way to bring America to her knees by toppling skyscrapers in her largest city . . . a world in which maniacal dictators from other "civilizations" can taunt us from afar with threats, perceived or real, of chemical and biological warfare . . . a melting pot America in which politically correct politicians who lack the spine necessary to kick illegal immigrants out on their butts make Joe Average feel like a stranger in a strange land.

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