C1 Business Digest C1 World Business W1 DINING F1-12 FASHION B10 EDITORIAL A30-31 Editorials: Money troubles at ground zero; time and a half in the Capitol; Muslims in European schools; dream teams.
Mandle's regular monthly editorials, Money On My Mind, explore the role of private money in politics and appear on the Democracy Matters website, the Huffington blog and the Common Cause website.
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Pages are money; editorial space is finite.
"Public Universities and Private Money" (editorial, July 15) told only half the story in arguing that states should support public universities.
The Guardian acknowledged this in an editorial recently, "most money is never printed as currency, but is created by private banks".
The editorial says the money would be far better spent on the population as a whole – two thirds of adults are currently obese or overweight.
You claim that voters "badly need" to know the donors to groups like the Chamber of Commerce, Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood or the Farm Bureau in order to -- well, in order to what, exactly ("Filibusters for the Big Money," editorial, July 11)?
The Guardian is owned by the Scott Trust, and our lack of a proprietor or shareholders gives us real editorial freedom: all money must be reinvested back into journalism, and being open to readers and the web fits the ethos.
The editorial, titled "Throwing Money at Nukes," argued that "the B61 upgrade would significantly increase America's tactical nuclear capability and send the wrong signal while Mr. Obama is trying to draw Russia into a new round of nuclear reduction talks that are supposedly aimed at cutting tactical, as well as strategic, arsenals".
