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OPINION 4A T HE D AILY A STORIAN Founded in 1873 STEPHEN A. FORRESTER, Editor & Publisher LAURA SELLERS, Managing Editor BETTY SMITH, Advertising Manager CARL EARL, Systems Manager JOHN D. BRUIJN, Production Manager DEBRA BLOOM, Business Manager SAMANTHA MCLAREN, Circulation Manager THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2015 Hillary versus history By GAIL COLLINS New York Times News Service W about running for president, the fact that no Democrat has been elected to succeed another in 1856? We bring you this factoid in honor of the beginning of the 2016 election Hampshire primary!) We’ve got so A Next phase of Astoria visioning under scrutiny storia has many success stories over the past couple of the perfect mo- ment for random irrelevant trivia about presiden- tial elections of AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File to be honest, is Consider that succession in- formation for a trail came about from a shared vision of professional planners Gail Collins had Democratic vice presidents step development that accompanies it Commission to hear residents’ to the polls and elected one Democrat recommendations to the City Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks after accept- ing the Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award during a ceremony in New York, Dec. 16 ical enemies claimed had resorted to cannibalism during one unfortunate on triumphantly to become possibly approved by the City Council With the trail in place, city residents and government leaders face a long-term balancing microscope here, including zoning, election from Samuel Til- sevelt came to hate Taft so much that he ran as a encouraging Astoria to stay true You very seldom run into fans of Buchanan. Herbert Hoover succeeded Calvin tonight to contribute ideas on a South Carolina primary!) Still, it never hurts to push a little random presidential history into the mix, if only to liven things up for the chief executive in Amer- ican history has his de- Harding hasn’t been giv- seldom run into fans of cozied up to slaveholders and failed to stop South- the only bachelor vice president, under professor of history at Goucher College approved zoning changes along chanan never said, and he spent a great deal of time pretending to be courting citizens an opportunity to discuss Urban Core from Second Street to 16th Street and the Neighborhood The city’s initial recommendations include a of the planning commission, pedestrian-friendly zone near the commercial and These factoids refer only to elec- also the last former secretary of state elected president? residential Privilege of ‘arrest without incident’ the stuff of champions D Northwest football fans have much to cheer about By CHARLES M. BLOW New York Times News Service T this episode have ended this he day after Christmas, a shooter terrorized the question, but nevertheless one that deserves ponder- armed on a Staten Island a sport long dominated by teams from the South and Southern decisions — often informed for the national college football championship? use force and the degree of Charles Blow a toy gun that uses nonlethal plastic pellets, but he didn’t not only have highly talented football a trait that has been respect for the game contrasts There’s more: their vehicle, hitting and coaches or hidden businessmen people as she passed them rise to football’s elite has been championship game and the at another vehicle in the came upon the shooter, the shooter led them on a the program has become a pointed the gun at a police • U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D): • State Rep. Deborah Boone (D): Wal-Mart, holding, but not shooting, rican-American men, have been caught The police say Antonio Martin had a Before the conscious mind can catch up to the racing heart, decisions are made that can’t be unmade. According to the paper, • U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D): 313 structed and activated? The American mind has been poisoned, from this country’s birth, against minority popu- • State Sen. Betsy Johnson (D): No amount of ignoring can alleviate it; no amount of And Tuesday, the police say, a hand- or fractions of a second, before the conscious mind can catch up to the racing heart, decisions are made It’s hard to read stories the ground and held there, even as he that there is a double stan- dard in the use of force by to be treated as though his suspected criminals need to be detained and tried In the cases that have been heard by sentenced on the street to a Maybe one could argue that in some The Wash- ington Post noted recently about a poll have equal application? Shouldn’t it be color- and gender-blind? Shouldn’t • State Rep. Brad Witt (D): State imagine that result being universally the of them, the recipients of the same use Shields?