Barbara Mezeske: Are you a values voter? Why it might be time to rethink what that really means.
"Many of us look at the candidates and hope to find ways in which their values and our own intersect. And yet, on the eve of this midterm election, increasing numbers of citizens feel disillusioned, despairing or disgusted by the way our government is behaving," columnist Barbara Mezeske writes.
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Education
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