Thumbs down: A year is too long to investigate a shooting
How is it that a year has passed since a California Highway Patrol officer shot and killed a man during a confrontation on Interstate 10 without resolution?
- May 24, 2013
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How is it that a year has passed since a California Highway Patrol officer shot and killed a man during a confrontation on Interstate 10 without resolution?
Copper wire thieves hit a new low this month when they hit the air-conditioning units at Lyndon B. Johnson Elementary School in Indio.
Local students at a school named in honor of President Gerald Ford got an important history lesson this week focused on a moment in history often overlooked when discussing his presidency: Operation Babylift.
This summer, many iconic national parks across the nation will be cutting back on staffing, closing some campgrounds and scaling back on popular programs because of mandatory budget cuts that took effect March 1.
Frank VanderSloot was a major donor to the Mitt Romney campaign. VanderSloot was subjected to two Internal Revenue Service audits — one focusing on his personal finances, the other related to his business interests — and a Labor Department audit of one of his businesses.
Audits are part of the cost of doing business, especially for government agencies.
The blow-up of the Internal Revenue Service tagging and auditing tea party start-ups is a non-issue. The IRS was legally doing its job.
Responding to domestic violence, I appreciate Shelter from the Storm.
The ongoing investigation of the catastrophe at Benghazi on September 11 has finally gotten the attention of the main-stream media.
I think that we have all had a universal reaction to the tragedies in Oklahoma and Connecticut.
'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.
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