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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?