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SEPT. 19, 2011
Breathe a deep sigh of relief now that state legislators have headed home. As Judge Gideon Tucker (and also attributed to Mark Twain) exclaimed, “No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.” You are safer now than you were a little over a wee...
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SEPT. 11, 2011
In my years writing for newspapers, I've always hated the commemoration ritual. What new insight can we offer about Thanksgiving? What words can still capture the essence of D-Day? And this weekend, what can we really say that ameliorates the horror of 9/11?
Mainly, I hate how c...
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SEPT. 6, 2001
Fresno School Superintendent Larry Powell has been getting the hero treatment in the national media for his reportedly selfless decision to give up his annual salary and benefits of $290,000 a year and, instead, take only $31,000 in salary. He's doing it for the kids, he said, to sa...
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AUG. 29, 2011
When the taxpayer is backing up the entire liability for the pensions received by members of the California Public Employees Retirement System, then CalPERS officials are exuberant about the stock market. They insist that a predicted rate of return of 7.75 percent is perfectly reali...
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Aug. 22, 2011
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's speech Tuesday at the Sacramento Press Club left many reporters wondering what the mayor is doing and what he is running for next. It seems odd for an L.A. mayor to fly to Sacramento and give a speech detailing a so-called "grand new vision" ...
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