Francis Koster, Author at Salisbury Post
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By Francis Koster A fierce, disorganized debate is raging as our country approaches the time schools traditionally open. Those fearful of millions more citizens suffering lifelong ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, August 2, 2020 12:00 am
Farm & Garden
By Francis Koster Ed. D. For the Salisbury Post If you look at a map of the six states that have now closed all their ...
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by Francis Koster, Friday, March 20, 2020 12:00 am
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Experts are now certain that about half our nations’ schools have invisible problems with mold, dust, humidity, temperature and lack of fresh air in classrooms ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, December 2, 2018 12:00 am
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Third in a four-part series One in five Americans works in or attends a K-12 school. If these schools were to adopt some existing but ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, November 11, 2018 12:11 am
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Second in a four-part series American schools rank in the bottom half of the world’s richest 35 countries. Of school ranking among the 50 states, ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, November 4, 2018 12:03 am
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First in a four-part series Locally, the school system of Rowan/Salisbury ranks in the bottom quarter of the school systems in the state that ranks ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, October 28, 2018 12:50 pm
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I want to support one of President Trump’s recent statements encouraging immigration by folks who carry the values of Norway. He is right — it ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, January 21, 2018 12:00 am
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By Francis Koster This is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Here are some facts about breast cancer you may not know. Sadly, around 40,000 women die ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, October 8, 2017 12:21 am
Guest columns
By Francis Koster At the same time all eyes are on the flood victims in Texas, some astounding and deeply upsetting proposals are floating around ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, September 3, 2017 12:52 am
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It might surprise you to know that total annual health care spending in America is more than $10,000 for every man, woman, and child. This ...
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by Francis Koster, Wednesday, March 15, 2017 9:46 pm
Guest columns
By Francis Koster Special to the Salisbury Post Pop Quiz: What does this graph show? A. The growth in debt of the State of North ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, February 12, 2017 12:00 am
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By Francis Koster Special to the Salisbury Post Mr. John Hood’s column in the Aug. 16 Post (“Teacher pay increase pilot programs get tested”) talked ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, August 21, 2016 12:20 am
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By Francis Koster Special to the Post On Monday, April 18, Lynn Good, the president of Duke Energy released an article she wrote called “Solving ...
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by Francis Koster, Wednesday, April 20, 2016 12:00 am
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I know how to make sure local school kids score higher on statewide ranking tests — you do it by letting the students breathe clean ...
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by Francis Koster, Tuesday, February 2, 2016 12:24 pm
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By Francis Koster www.theoptimisticfuturist.com If you buy a certain brand of toothpaste, it has little plastic pieces in it — put there on purpose. Really. It ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, December 6, 2015 12:18 am
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One of my favorite statements by a corporate leader goes something like this: “If change outside of your organization is happening faster than change on ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, November 1, 2015 12:25 am
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By Francis Koster We have two decades to save life on Earth as we know it — and I am not kidding. About 150 years ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, September 27, 2015 12:18 am
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Local communities and major corporations both have an unrecognized chance to reverse the trends in climate change/global warming dramatically. This opportunity exists because, according to ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, August 30, 2015 12:00 am
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North Carolina citizens have access to new, low-cost weapons that can be used to protect families. Some people who want to use these weapons are ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, July 5, 2015 12:00 am
Opinion
Since the passage of the Clean Air Act in 1970, America has become much healthier. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, our average ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, April 26, 2015 12:00 am
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For many years, 14 smaller “mom and pop” stores died each time Wal-Mart, Target and Kmart opened a new store. Between 1962 and 2013 alone, ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, March 29, 2015 12:10 am
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The State of North Carolina recently released the single letter grades for all of its schools. Headlines read “Local Primary School gets a D.” The ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, March 8, 2015 12:00 am
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If someone invited you to compete for a prize of $1,000 to quickly create a method to identify poor people by looking at them, you ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, February 8, 2015 12:33 am
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We have a situation. Leaking natural gas (methane) is one of the most climate-changing gasses we dump into our atmosphere. In some places it is ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, January 25, 2015 12:00 am
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As we struggle to create a better future for our kids and their kids, sometimes it helps to take a breath and put things in ...
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by Francis Koster, Saturday, January 10, 2015 6:05 pm
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What is the difference in the meaning between “power” and “influence”? How does that difference play out in improving society in ways we can be ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, November 30, 2014 12:00 am
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For the next two minutes or so reading time, I intend to shock you with information, increase your anxiety about the future of our society, ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, November 16, 2014 12:00 am
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A few weeks ago, a courteous 20-something young man knocked on my door and asked whether I had any yard work he could do to ...
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, February 23, 2014 12:00 am
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