Gov. Arnold Schwarze-negger and legislative Democrats are in another one of their political spats, and this one could cost Californians caught up in the mortgage modification mess a huge tax bill if it doesn't get resolved quickly.
The financial meltdown -- triggered by incompetence, greed and outright fraud on Wall Street -- has slammed the Valley like few other places in the country.
Three-day-a-month furloughs of California state workers have run their course as a response to an immediate cash-flow problem.
This week, you should find in your mailbox an envelope containing a survey that will only take a few minutes to fill out but will mean a lot to our community in the future.
About the only thing more sickening than Tiger Woods' cowardly approach to facing the media the last four months is the public's willingness to accept his setting the ground rules.
We have long supported health care reform, and believe that it would reduce the skyrocketing cost of health care in America, give coverage to those who can't afford to see a doctor and restore fairness to a system that allows insurance companies to deny affordable coverage to people with chronic illnesses.
If the Microsoft of the Corn Belt has a killer app, it's Roundup Ready genes.
Editor: Attention to Atwater's wastewater plants: Both the city and county do not have it together. We only needed one treatment plant and they better not even think the residents will stand for such trickery on two of them.
Editor: Steve Cameron must be a pretty good carpenter, I think he hit the nail right on the head with his "broken government" column.
Editor: I have been working for the past six months to support health care reform and wanted to thank Rep. Dennis Cardoza for supporting it in November and letting him know that if he supports us again on Sunday's vote, we will be there for him in November.
Editor: The fact of the matter is facts don't matter to conservatives, and their hyperbole gains traction like a government takeover of health care.
Editor: What is the cost of the Senate health care bill that our Congress is about to pass?
Editor: I've been going round and round with the various arguments I've been hearing and reading about Obama's health care bill, or, if you prefer, "Obamacare."
Editor: This comment is to the letter by John Fitzgibbon. Right on, brother.
Editor: As for "Obamacare," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has inserted a clause in the Senate version of the health care bill, Section 3403, that states, "It shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution ... that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection." The subsection refers to the powers of the Medical Advisory Board to "reduce the per capita rate of growth in Medicare spending." This came to a vote at 1 a.m.
As the up/down, "deem" or damned health care bill lurches to some sort of ending, meet a man who talks a lot of sense about our health care crisis.
I had reason to recently spend some six hours at Mercy Medical Center's emergency room with a family member.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness ..." -- Matthew 5:6
About the only thing more sickening than Tiger Woods' cowardly approach to facing the media the last four months is the public's willingness to accept his setting the ground rules.
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