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    Michael Gerson: Baseless fears of Common Core

    Modern conservatism comes in two distinct architectural styles. The first seeks to build from scratch, using accurate ideological levels and plumb lines, so every wall is straight and every corner squared.

    • May 20, 2013
  1. Valley Voice: Tell people you appreciate them before it's too late

    Cash Baxter is a New York director and Broadway producer. He lived in New York City for almost 30 years. He now lives here in the valley. He teaches a diversity of classes in the fine arts and theater at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Palm Desert. He shared this powerful story with us a few months ago in class.

    • May 20, 2013
  2. Letter: Desert Sands Unified is unfair to employees

    Health care costs have been a rising concern for school district employees. Each school district has addressed these issues differently.

    • May 20, 2013
  3. Letter: Good guys do stop bad guys

    Re: 'When the bad guy with a gun is there, the good guy isn't,' Denys Arcuri, May 17.

    • May 20, 2013
  4. Letter: Save the planet by eschewing meat

    A review of 12,000 papers on climate change, in the May 15 issue of 'Environmental Research Letters' found that 97 percent of scientists attribute climate change to human activities. Although we're unlikely to reverse climate change, we can mitigate its effects by reducing our driving, energy use and meat consumption.

    • May 20, 2013
    • OPINION /
    Angelina Coe, executive director for Shelter from the Storm. Michael Snyder/The Desert Sun

    Monday Newsmaker: Protecting the victims of domestic violence

    Angelina Coe became executive director of Shelter from the Storm, a haven for victims of domestic violence, in October.

    • May 19, 2013
    • OPINION /

    E.J. Dionne: When is a leaker not a leader?

    'What if the government starts enforcing the espionage statute whenever there's a leak?' Steve Roberts, a former New York Times journalist who teaches at George Washington University, observed to the Baltimore Sun. 'It's going to have a tremendously chilling effect on this interplay between sources and reporters.'

    • May 19, 2013
  5. California Gov. Jerry Brown wants to give school districts more control over the money they receive from the state and provide poorer districts with a larger share of state aid. Renee. C. Byer/The Sacramento Bee via AP

    Our Voice: Stand your ground, governor

    Gov. Jerry Brown is on the right track with his mid-May revisions to the state budget. All he needs to do is get his fellow Democrats in the Legislature to go along.

    • May 18, 2013
  6. Hank Plante. Courtesy

    Shield law quandary: Who is a journalist?

    I sat at the 'press table' at a recent California Republican Convention covering the event for my TV station, when I started making small talk with the 'reporter' next to me.

    • May 18, 2013
  7. Reader reaction for Sunday, May 19, 2013

    As a teacher in Desert Sands Unified School District, I object to the implied idea that teachers are doing this just because of salaries.

    • May 18, 2013
  8. Political letters for Sunday, May 19, 2013

    Let's talk about the IRS scandal for a moment:

    • May 18, 2013
  9. Michael Zoll of FrickleBurgers in Cathedral City at the 2012 Oktoberfest Palm Springs. Pamela Bieri, Special to The Desert Sun

    We'll miss this winning burger joint

    Businesses in the Coachella Valley tend to either come and go quickly, or gain lots of loyal customers and stick around for many years. So I was shocked and saddened to receive an email from Mike at FrickleBurgers announcing that they were going out of business today.

    • May 18, 2013
  10. Jeff L. Grubbe. Jay Calderon, The Desert Sun

    Protecting water quality for the Coachella Valley

    Public service is about doing the right thing. What happens when government agencies charged with protecting the public fail? Someone else has to step in and lead.

    • May 18, 2013
  11. Bill O'Reilly. GNS

    What happened, Mr. President?

    It hasn't been a great week for the Obama folks, as the scandal du jour tour has firmly taken hold. Every day it seems another federal agency is exposed as having intimidated, snooped, covered up or gone to Vegas on the taxpayer dime. Zimbabwe is even making fun of us.

    • May 18, 2013
  12. Dan Walters. Sacramento Bee

    School aid, safety-net programs conflict

    Twenty-five years ago, California voters approved — albeit very narrowly — the education community's ballot measure that engraved a complex school-finance structure into the state constitution.

    • May 18, 2013
  13. Tejay van Garderen of the USA riding for BMC Racing leads Javier Acevedo of Colombia riding for Jamis-Hagens Berman on the climb to the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway for the finish of Stage Two of the 2013 Amgen Tour of California on Monday. Acevedo won. Doug Pensinger/Getty Images

    Thumbs up: Cyclists brave the desert heat

    Monday was horrifically hot — and nobody felt it as deeply as the professional cyclists who blazed through the Coachella Valley during the Amgen Tour of California, the fourth-largest cycling event in the world.

    • May 17, 2013
  14. Scott Hines. Courtesy

    CVAG made the right choice in solar financing decision

    In the May 8 Desert Sun, Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone took issue with the Coachella Valley Association of Government's selection of Ygrene Energy to provide a PACE program to the Coachella Valley.

    • May 17, 2013
  15. A passenger jet lands at the Palm Springs International Airport. A 1percent increase in tourist taxes has been proposed to increase flights during the summer. Michael Snyder, The Desert Sun

    Thumbs up: How to keep the planes coming in the summer

    It's a conundrum: How do you attract more tourists to the Coachella Valley during the slow summer season when it actually costs more to get here?

    • May 17, 2013
  16. Cathedral City Police Officer Heather Olsen, left, and Cathedral City High School Assistant Principal Karen Dimick discovered a potential teen suicide through social media. The teen was a student in New Jersey. Omar Ornelas, The Desert Sun

    Thumbs up: Smart social media action likely saved a young life

    We live in a voyeuristic society.

    • May 17, 2013
  17. Patrick Mullany. Michael Snyder, The Desert Sun

    Thumbs down: Message on perks is loud, clear

    A highly contentious issue in Indian Wells was finally put to bed on Thursday.

    • May 17, 2013
  18. Brian Nestande and Jose Medina talk to The Desert Sun editorial board. Omar Ornelas/The Desert Sun

    Our Voice: Assembly positions shouldn't be for sale

    Everyone knows the cliché attributed to Mark Hanna, who managed the presidential campaign of William McKinley when the Republican outspent Democrat William Jennings Bryan by more than 10 to one in 1896: 'There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money, and I can't remember what the second one is.'

    • May 16, 2013
  19. Denys Arcuri. Courtesy

    When the bad guy with a gun is there, the good guy isn't

    'The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.'

    • May 16, 2013
  20. Letter: New store suggestion for Palm Springs revitalization program

    Palms Springs is experiencing a dynamic downtown revitalization with the demolition of the old Fashion Plaza and the completion of a Kimpton brand hotel, three new blocks of retail, restaurants, office space, and new streets by 2015.

    • May 16, 2013
  21. Letter: Ramon Road: A Never-Ending Story

    For years now we have waited for the Mayor of Cathedral City to move on this project.

    • May 16, 2013
  22. Other Views: Obama administration assaults press freedom

    In Washington, as in any seat of power, most acts of folly begin with hubris.

    • May 15, 2013
  23. Letters for Thursday, May 16, 2013

    As a resident of Cathedral City for 30 years and a 40-year veteran of Cathedral City bureaucracy, I believe a lot of the blame was spread around but the ultimate blame must be on the former city manager, when he told an employee, 'just take care of it.'

    • May 15, 2013
  24. Myles Spicer. Courtesy

    Journalism vs. justice: There's no easy answer

    In every democratic society, the freedom of the press is sacrosanct — but it often butts heads with other individual rights and constitutional guarantees.

    • May 15, 2013
  25. Michael Bracken is the Managing Partner of Palm Desert based Development Management Group, Inc., specializing in economics and economic development. He is also former city councilman (in the City of Banning, CA) and currently serves on the Desert Sands Unified School District Building Corporation. Courtesy

    My two cents for regional leadership

    Over the past few weeks, the media have covered a story of Cathedral City Councilman Greg Pettis, who has incurred some $92,000 of expenses over the past five years traveling on business associated with the city itself and a variety of super-regional, state and national governmental associations.

    • May 14, 2013
  26. Letters for Wednesday, May 15, 2013

    I disagree with Mr. Stone's conclusion that Coachella Valley Association of Governments made a bad choice on solar financing.

    • May 14, 2013
    • OPINION /

    Michael Gerson: The IRS needs an audit

    Suppose that the Environmental Protection Agency were to admit offhandedly that the fluoridation of water had only modest communist mind-control effects. Or the United Nations were to concede it has been running fleets of black helicopters over American cities, but only in the course of conducting extensive good will tours.

    • May 13, 2013

Will the IRS scandal breathe new life into the tea party?

Retrieving results.
Absolutely yes
31%
37 votes
Probably yes
18%
22 votes
Probably not
33%
40 votes
Absolutely not
16%
20 votes

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