I was taken aback May 12 when I read this story in your “Local & State Dispatches”: “Comments on proposed crow hunting seasons sought.” Gee, we have until May 30 to respond? I went to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife website, and I could not find any listing about a “crow hunt.” […]

In response to the May 14 article “In doubt: Using student test scores to measure teacher quality,” I offer the following observation. If you designed a controlled experiment (uncontrolled experiments being largely worthless) in which two teachers of roughly the same experience and education taught the same material, for a discrete period of time, to […]