A bit of good work

Updated: 11/20/09 6:49 AM

New York moves maddeningly slowly on critical matters —if it moves at all—but state lawmakers this week did pass legislation that cracks down on drunken driving in two useful ways.

Now it’s the Senate’s turn. If Americans are going to have the health care reform they urgently need, it will be because the Senate does more than the House did to control the exploding costs of care.

Improving education

Updated: 11/19/09 7:06 AM

State educational policy changes supported by the state Board of Regents in concept—but approved so far only in principle—are designed to reach good goals: teachers with more clinical experience, students involved at earlier ages in science, math, engineering and technology, and people with great non-teaching experience given a better chance to become teachers.

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