In the months following the devastating tragedy in Newtown, Conn., lawmakers have passed bills to improve school safety and prevent senseless acts of violence on school property. These bills proposed changes to current legislation regarding weapons on or near school property, arming educators, and holding schools accountable for non-compliant school safety plans.
Let me tell you a story about how California cares for its most frail, low-income elderly and disabled residents. It has a beginning and middle, but the ending is uncertain.
Boy Scouts are often advised to leave the place where they have camped in better condition than when they arrived.
The good, and bad, from the month of April.
Although we generally have not been especially impressed with San Diego Mayor Bob Filner’s first few months in office, we offer our approval of his decision last week to restore the city’s funding to the San Dieguito River Park.
Why are we pursuing an expensive project that is greater in scale than what is really needed?
It seems impossible that we routinely leave people with badly fractured minds to fend for themselves, but we do, every day.
Just two decades ago, autism was a mysterious and somewhat obscure disorder, commonly associated with the movie “Rain Man” and savantism. It affected an estimated 1 in 5,000 children.
Each time we surrender, voluntarily or otherwise, some liberty or individual right, the flame below gets a wee bit warmer.
THUMBS UP to the three educators who on March 20 were named “Teachers of the Year” in the Poway Unified School District.
