Our Voice: California Legislature must commit to transparency
'Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman,' Associate Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1913.
- May 22, 2013
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'Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman,' Associate Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1913.
My dog, Woody, died suddenly several weeks ago. He was fine on Friday night and died on the vet's table Saturday morning.
I'm pleased that the Agua Caliente tribe states that it wants to become a responsible participant in water-management decisions in the valley.
I have enjoyed reading the articles about the Ophelia Project in The Desert Sun.
A comment from James W. Miller, a retired clinical researcher at Desert Oasis Healthcare, on the online version of our story announcing that President Obama would meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Annenberg Retreat said it well: 'What a fitting and glorious venue for these leaders to meet!'
In his May 4 column, CVUSD Superintendent Darryl Adams expressed his intention to 'begin implementation of the common core state standards to prepare our students for the four C's: communication, creativity, collaboration and critical thinking.'
Thank you to Jeff Grubbe for his leadership stance against the water resource mismanagement by both the Coachella Valley Water District and Desert Water Agency.
The heroism of the teachers who threw their bodies over their students to protect them from the Oklahoma City tornado was inspiring as were the teachers at Sandy Hook school who stood in front of their students to protect them from flying bullets.
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.
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.
Health care costs have been a rising concern for school district employees. Each school district has addressed these issues differently.
Re: 'When the bad guy with a gun is there, the good guy isn't,' Denys Arcuri, May 17.
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.
Angelina Coe became executive director of Shelter from the Storm, a haven for victims of domestic violence, in October.
'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.'
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.
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.
As a teacher in Desert Sands Unified School District, I object to the implied idea that teachers are doing this just because of salaries.
Let's talk about the IRS scandal for a moment:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
We live in a voyeuristic society.
A highly contentious issue in Indian Wells was finally put to bed on Thursday.
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.'
'The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.'
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