Opinion
- Letter: Parent involvement critical to education
- I was intrigued by your story on the test scores of our local schools. It does give a slight insight to the quality of education our students are getting.
My only disagreement with your story was it was data only. The biggest problem we face is pare... Full story
- Letter: Remembering the Bill of Rights
- Recently, I was listening to a guest speaker on talk radio. She introduced herself as an African-American woman from Atlanta, Ga.
She said, "I only make note of this, so your listeners will realize I am black. I consider myself an American, in every... Full story
- Letter: Animal control chief says goodbye
- This letter is my letter of resignation from the County of Glenn as a Department Head on Aug. 22, 2010.
I have served the County of Glenn for almost 34 years, which I started on Feb. 1, 1977. I have enjoyed my professional career with the Glenn Coun... Full story
- Letter: Legalizing marijuana solves problems
- Regarding your July 31 editorial, the drug war is largely a war on marijuana smokers.
In 2008, there were 847,863 marijuana arrests in the U.S., almost 90 percent for simple possession. At a time when state and local governments are laying off polic... Full story
- Letter: Apartments should allow pets
- I believe that pets should be allowed in apartment complexes.
If apartment managers do not exclude children, they should not be allowed to exclude pets. Pets should be counted as a part of the family.
People have to give up their pets just because ... Full story
- Our View: What's the French word for 'bailout'?
- We suspect that if Congress had asked, American taxpayers would have emphatically explained they don't want to pay to bail out failing companies. Nevertheless, Congress approved $700 billion in late 2008, ostensibly to stabilize the financial system ... Full story
- Thomas D. Elias: Voters lying about legal pot?
- When the Proposition 19 marijuana legalization initiative qualified for the ballot with a yes-or-no due vote in the November election, its passage seemed almost a foregone conclusion.
Tax the approximately $12 billion pot industry in this state and ... Full story
- Michael Reagan: Obama’s Choice - Boy Scouts or Islam
- President Obama couldn't bring himself to observe the National Day of Prayer or spend time with the Boy Scouts of America, but God forbid, he couldn't miss the Muslim Iftar Ramadan dinner, or pass up a chance to praise an Islamic center a stone's thr... Full story
- Ron Hart: All shook up
- The day comes when all the kids are gone. We sent our youngest kid off to NYU, the middle one back to the U of M to see what they can do with him, and our oldest to medical school last week. At times like this parents worry about many things to do wi... Full story
- Thomas D. Elias: Tough choice for state’s 'robing hoods'
- "Robbing Hoods," one newspaper editor called the state legislators who voted last year to take $1.7 billion from city redevelopment agencies around the state and apply the funds to education.
That editor's local RDA was forced to fork over $2.5 mill... Full story