Editorials
Our View: Is budget a new course, or just more of the same?
Comments | RecommendGov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a chance to change California's course significantly. Or, he can continue on the current disastrous path of more taxing, spending and borrowing in order to spend. We hope for a change, but experience tells us we're probably...
Our View: If housing bill makes it out door, veto it
Comments | RecommendPresident Bush has threatened to veto a mortgage crisis "relief" bill that the House passed Thursday, 266-155, in the face of that threat. If the Senate doesn't change the bill substantially — and perhaps even if it does — he should carry...
Our View: Thumbs up, thumbs down
Comments | RecommendThumbs up to everyone who had a hand in last weekend's 4th Annual Vintage Tractor Days, a fundraiser to help complete a community center located in the Yuba County foothills. The Dobbins-Oregon House Improvement Foundation, organizer of the event, reported...
Our View: Raising price of pandering
Comments | RecommendDespite a state budget up to $20 billion in the hole, despite Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urging 10 percent cuts for state departments, and despite revenue lagging behind expectations, the governor plans to add 211 more state employees at a cost of $55.4...
Our View: Happy Mother's Day
Comments | RecommendConsider this a rhetorical gift to all you moms out there: The term "working mother" is redundant....
Op-Ed: Poll workers on front lines of democracy
Comments | RecommendEach election, Californians see snapshots of what makes our democracy tick. Candidates. Initiative measures. Campaign commercials. Voter registration drives. Ballots and the machines that count them....
Our View: Back away from craze for ethanol
Comments | RecommendThe ethanol craze just might set a record for fads that fizzled before they got fully underway. The sooner the better, in our view....
