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- Letter: Veterans group reaches out
- The AMVETS Department of California Service Foundation, serving veterans since 1945, is a nonprofit organization that is committed to helping all veterans in California, and in Reno and Las Vegas, Nev. Our board of directors, service officers and... Full story
- Letter: Crystal Geyser bad for Orland
- I can tell you one of the reasons that so many of us are opposed to allowing a bottling plant to build in Orland: We are concerned about our water and the potential loss of it. We live only a couple hundred feet from their proposed project and are... Full story
- Letter: Geyser will not be promised job windfall
- According to Crystal Geyser's application, they expect to have 20 to 25 full-time, year-round well-paid employees. This sounds like a windfall to Orland, which has a very high unemployment rate. Upon further research, though, in the same document,... Full story
- Nielsen honored as legislator of the year
- Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, R-Gerber, received the annual "Patty Mattingly Award" for 2009 on Wednesday from the Regional Council of Rural Counties. The award was presented during the organization's annual installation of officers in Sacramento.... Full story
- Letter: Former teacher says Tudesko expulsion harsh
- The Willows school board decision to expel a 16-year-old student for having an unloaded shotgun in his truck, parked off campus, appears to be hysterical overkill. I hope the Glenn County Board of Education will take a less reactionary approach,... Full story
- Our view: California ranks last in tax fairness
- For years, California has ranked among the highest-taxed and most heavily regulated of states. It's unsurprising to find California now ranked the absolute worst state when it comes to "balanced, fair and effective" tax laws. California ranked dead... Full story
- Ron Hart: Palin: Politician, journalist or celebrity?
- Sarah Palin took a leave of absence from her Russia-watching post in Alaska to become a Fox News contributor. Who could have seen that coming? She represents diversity on Fox as that network's only non-blonde correspondent. It was either that or... Full story
- Thomas D. Elias: Voters deserting their mainstream political parties
- Something remarkable is happening in California politics, but the leaders of the two major parties don't seem to get it. Voters are deserting the state's Republican Party in droves, but most are not going to the Democrats. Instead, they are... Full story
- Our view: What can Brown do for you, or to you?
- So, Jerry Brown, a two-term California governor (1975-83) and the son of a two-term governor (Edmund G. "Pat" Sr., 1959-67), has announced he will seek to be governor again. If elected, he would be both the youngest person (36) and the oldest (72)... Full story
- Ron Hart: Health care whether you want it or not
- Americans do not want this massive government takeover of our health care. Fearing that Cajun extraterrestrial James Carville is correct, Obama is intent on ramming it down our throats. This is not about what's right; it's about politicians... Full story
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