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INDIANA — Matthew Tully:Commuter tax is fair, like it or not

I've found that having a calm discussion about the issue of a commuter tax is nearly impossible. Even the mention of one leads to immediate angry responses from those who either hate taxes in general or, quite understandably, don't think their income taxes should be captured by a county other than the one they call home. A man wrote me a couple of years ago to protest the very idea of a commuter tax, which has been both discussed and stalled for decades around here, and his protest summed up the opposition well: I moved out of the city, he told me, to get away from its problems. And one of those problems, he said, was the cost of paying for the city's many other problems. Read the rest....

MICHIGAN — Brian Dickerson on race and community:Why Renisha McBride is not Michigan's Trayvon Martin

DELAWARE — Editorial:Should cigarettes pay a city's bills?

IOWA — Kathie Obradovich:Rand Paul: GOP doesn't oppose birth control