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All posts by : Andrew A. Yerbey

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An Appreciation of Appreciations

December 10, 2016
by Andrew A. Yerbey Editorials

A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century By William F. Buckley Jr. Edited by James Rosen (Crown Forum, 357 pages, $22) Had there never been a William F. Buckley Jr., American conservatism would look very different—and so might the world. “A ...

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License to Kill Resize

License to Kill Opportunity

October 20, 2016
by Andrew A. Yerbey EditorialsRegulation

In Alabama, we expect—quite rightly—our fellow citizens to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. But what if there is a barrier between citizens and their boots, blocking them from reaching the straps? And what if that barrier is unwarranted, put th ...

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Looking at the Lottery Math Resize

Looking at the Lottery Math

August 19, 2016
by Andrew A. Yerbey Editorials

"Which is the most immoral," Governor Robert Bentley mused philosophically to the press last week, "buying five lottery tickets with money you earned or allowing a child to die?" A state lottery in Alabama is "the only real choice," he warned ominous ...

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Diplomas of Duplicity Resize

Diplomas of Duplicity, Revisited

March 31, 2016
by Andrew A. Yerbey Editorials

“That’s one of the things that gives me a great peace about leaving.” So spoke Tommy Bice, Alabama’s outgoing superintendent of education, about the graduation rate of public-school students in our state on a recent appearance on Alabama Public Television ...

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Diplomas of Duplicity Resize

Diplomas of Duplicity

March 14, 2016
by Andrew A. Yerbey Editorials

Two weeks ago, Tommy Bice announced his plans to step down as Alabama’s superintendent of education. Reflecting on his tenure, Bice singled out one accomplishment with especial pride: the nearly 90% graduation rate of public-school students in Alabama. Th ...

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Chess Bedsole Responses Resize

The Cultivation of Our Children

December 18, 2015
by Andrew A. Yerbey Editorials

Christmas is a time for rejoicing and reflection. Both are manifest in one of the last poems written by T. S. Eliot, "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees," a majestic work that deserves revisiting every Christmastime. "The child wonders at the Christmas T ...

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The Curious Case of Alabama’s Teacher of the Year: Bureaucracy, Absurdity, and Perverse Policy

November 3, 2015
by Andrew A. Yerbey Editorials

Ann Marie Corgill is, by all accounts and by almost any definition, a highly qualified teacher. It is regrettable that the modifier “almost” is necessary in that sentence, but its inclusion is instructive. From it, the people of Alabama can learn a lot ab ...

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