Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.

We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.