Leonard Pitts
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Let's hope GOP will give us something to vote for rather than against
BC-PITTS-COLUMN:MI: (1051 words) Leonard Pitts Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML They'll be back. Don't think for a minute that they won't. These things run in cycles, and death in politics is about as permanent as death in Marvel Comics, which is to say, not very. Yes, Team Red had its butt kicked and its lunch money taken a few... Nov/18/2008 1:50 PM |
D.C. public-school experiment is a test for all of us
BC-PITTS-COLUMN-ADV16:MI: (1105 words) Leonard Pitts Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML So it seems there's this new couple coming to town (the husband just got a job with the government). Now they are scouting schools for their children and people are wondering whether they're going to go public or private. Some observers would like... Nov/14/2008 8:01 AM |
In historic election, blacks embrace discrimination
BC-PITTS-COLUMN:MI: (1046 words) Leonard Pitts Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML Sometimes, progress carries an asterisk. That's as good a summary as any of a sad irony from last week's historic election. You will recall one of the major storylines of that day was the fact that, in helping make Barack Obama the nation's first black. Nov/11/2008 1:19 PM |
BC-PITTS-COLUMN-ADVISORY:MI: (101 words) Leonard Pitts Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML re PITTS-COLUMN:MI (Leonard Pitts Jr., MI) - Column for release Sunday will not move this week. Two PITTS columns moved Tuesday. --- (c) 2008, The Miami Herald Visit The Miami Herald Web edition on the World Wide Web at http://www.herald.com... Nov/7/2008 8:02 AM |
Will there be a newspaper to tell us what we need to know?
BC-PITTS-COLUMN:MI: (1060 words) Leonard Pitts Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML Maybe I should revise my estimate. Lately, many people have asked me about the fate of the American newspaper in an era when circulation, advertising and staff size are all sharply down. I've told them what editors have told me: The next 18 to 24... Nov/4/2008 2:50 PM |
Obama threat: Are we still stuck in the '60s?
BC-PITTS-COLUMN-ADV02:MI: (963 words) Leonard Pitts Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML The killers would have worn top hats. Having already murdered 102 African Americans, 14 by beheading, they would have driven at top speed toward Barack Obama, leaning from the windows of their vehicle, dressed in top hats and white tuxedoes, firing... Oct/31/2008 8:05 AM |
Politically minded mugging is a paradigm of paranoia, not reality
BC-PITTS-COLUMN:MI: (965 words) Leonard Pitts Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML It smelled worse than rotting garbage in triple digit heat, but I'm not surprised some folks swallowed it anyway. Meaning the story that was a mini-sensation for about 15 minutes last week: the McCain campaign worker supposedly mugged by a black man in. Oct/28/2008 3:37 PM |
Uncertainty should not lead to execution
BC-PITTS-COLUMN-ADV26-1ST-LEDE:MI: (1133 words) Leonard Pitts Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML This is a rewrite. In the column originally prepared for this space, I said that Troy Davis was scheduled to die Monday - to be killed, actually, by an executioner for the state of Georgia. But - stop the presses! - that's no longer accurate. On... Oct/24/2008 4:53 PM |
Uncertainty should not lead to execution
BC-PITTS-COLUMN-ADV26:MI: (1082 words) Leonard Pitts Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML Troy Davis is scheduled to die Monday. No, let's make that more accurate. On Monday, he is scheduled to be killed. There's a difference. A 7 p.m., according to the warrant signed by a judge, an executioner for the state of Georgia will pump him full.. Oct/24/2008 8:01 AM |
Faking it in Real America
BC-PITTS-COLUMN-1ST-LEDE:MI: (1097 words) Leonard Pitts Download: Preview | Text | Web-Ready HTML Excuse me while I say a few words on behalf of us Fake Americans. Not that I really think of myself as such. I mean, here in Fake America, life proceeds much as it does in Real America. We are raising our kids and paying our taxes, trying to keep up... Oct/21/2008 5:06 PM |
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