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Elmer Smith
Guillen exercised right to be stupid
Posted 04/11/2012
Elmer Smith: The flogging of Ozzie Guillen over comments on Castro was hard to watch.
Phoebe Denson (left) and Myrtle Hudson march Sunday in Titusville, Fla., demanding justice over the Trayvon Martin killing. FloridaToday.com
Law tilted against slain teen
BY ELMER SMITH, For the Daily News
Posted 03/21/2012
Elmer Smith: The question before prosecutors is whether George Zimmerman was acting in self-defense when he shot and killed Trayvon Martin.
 
Poll: Charges against Zimmerman?
 
Call to girlfriend before teen is shot
Writing's been a job, but hardly work - 09/23/2011
After 22 years of being a columnist, Elmer Smith says goodbye to a job that he says is, "too much fun to call it work."
Nutter offers faint praise to exiting SRC members - 09/20/2011
Elmer Smith: In a cozy corner of school district headquarters, Archie, state Rep. Dwight Evans, a representative of Mosaica and then-deputy superintendent Leroy Nunery held their own meeting
The balls bounce different ways - 09/16/2011
THERE IS a tacit agreement between a man and a woman when he takes her out for the evening. The implied contract is that, no matter how the date goes, he will return her safely. We learn it as boys, hopefully before our first date.
On Labor Day, don't forget the movement - 09/02/2011
A PANEL of experts spent an hour of TV time last month debating this weighty issue: Is organized labor really a special interest?
Time for Ackerman to get specific with her accusations - 08/26/2011
Elmer Smith: In an interview on Thursday, Arlene Ackerman said she had "been asked to do things that are totally unconscionable."
Ackerman's gone, but problems - and SRC - remain - 08/23/2011
Elmer Smith: The School Reform Comission couldn't dismiss Arlene Ackerman for cause without implicating themselves.
To Obama: Rest up, then fight back - 08/19/2011
TODAY'S reader-poll question is whether President Obama should be taking a vacation while so many Americans are out of work.
Playing the racist/not a racist game - 08/05/2011
Elmer Smith: Another public figure is hauled before the people's court for an arguably racist remark.
Freedom from public education? - 07/29/2011
STATE REP. Mark Longietti shuffled through his sheaf of papers and pulled up the study that summed up his concerns about expanding school choice.
News of Butch Lewis' passing packs a punch - 07/26/2011
Elmer Smith: He was the original little big man, a fierce boardroom brawler who'd strip you clean in a bargaining session, then become your most trusted partner when the deal was done.
MORE STORIES
In Somalia, a vicious cycle of drought, famine and war - 07/22/2011
Flood warning for Pa. & private liquor sales - 07/15/2011
Got a 'Pledge'? GOPers will sign it - 07/12/2011
Deficit-reduction will be a booby-hatched plan - 07/08/2011
Don't like the verdict in the Casey Anthony trial? Don't blame the jury - 07/06/2011
City-school agreement creates education a la carte - 06/24/2011
Why keep spending on these school cyberfailures? - 06/21/2011
Weiner resigns, but only after porn star spoke up - 06/17/2011


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