Viewpoint: Reform penal code, not prisons
Proponents of prison privatization argue that it is the silver bullet for the state’s budget crisis.
May 16 2012 | Posted in Columnists | Read More »
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Viewpoint: State needs new vision for prisons
The most important point Amy makes is that macro-level comparisons are dangerous — as are most comparative studies on topics like this.
May 16 2012 | Posted in Columnists | Read More »
Viewpoint: A celebration of our teachers
As a young child, I would wonder why I had to go to school; an institution that I now recognize as my second home. Over the years, school has enabled me to grow and develop as a person, beyond just being an expert on simple facts from textbooks.
May 11 2012 | Posted in Columnists | Read More »
Bob Emery: Better than any literary segue!
My daughter Kathleen gave me two Segway rides for my birthday and Suzanne and I got around to using them last Thursday.
May 9 2012 | Posted in Columnists | Read More »
Amy Sandberg: The story of human progress is the story of science
Last week the Obama administration released its much anticipated Bioeconomy Blueprint, an economic renewal plan that is centered on advances in health sciences, agriculture, industrial biotechnology and advanced biofuels.
May 2 2012 | Posted in Columnists | Read More »
Dick Lyles: Obama’s cruel hoax against women
Although you can fool some of the people all the time, you can’t fool everyone all the time. President Obama appears to have fooled liberal women in perpetuity, thereby perpetrating one of the biggest hoaxes in the modern political arena.
May 2 2012 | Posted in Columnists | Read More »
Emery: Maybe it’s time for some real ‘independents’
Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, a candidate for mayor of San Diego, recently ditched the Republican Party and became an independent. Fletcher’s reasoning makes both common and political sense.
Apr 25 2012 | Posted in Columnists | Read More »
Elias: New plan has high-speed rail making more sense
It’s beginning to look like California may get bullet trains after all, but not quite so grandiose a system as what the state’s High Speed Rail Authority at first wanted or what voters approved in the 2008 Proposition 1-A.
Apr 25 2012 | Posted in Columnists | Read More »
He said: Assault on religion is bigotry
By saying “religion” rather than “people of faith” should be excluded from politics we are simply giving religious bigots a free pass.
Apr 19 2012 | Posted in Columnists | Read More »
She said: Base laws on reason, not religion
Unfortunately, Dick Lyles is equating morality with religion.
Apr 19 2012 | Posted in Columnists | Read More »
