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Our View: Don’t rely on government for protection
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Victims of Bernard Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme at least have the satisfaction of knowing the man who ruined their lives will die in prison, having received a 150-year sentence Monday at the age of 71. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin sent a strong... Full story
Op-Ed: Budget cuts devastating to the disabled
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June 22, 2009, marked the 10th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Olmstead decision. In its 1999 ruling, the high court affirmed the right of individuals with disabilities to live in their community of choice, and rejected the state of Georgia's... Full story
Our View: Local swimming death water safety reminder
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Michael McCullah will be mourned tonight during a memorial gathering at Sam Brannan Park in Yuba City. The Linda resident drowned last week in Lake Francis in the Yuba County foothills. McCullah's death is the just most recent painful reminder that being... Full story
Our View: Give the cold shoulder to climate bill
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After narrow approval in the House, the so-called cap-and-trade bill to curb global warming deserves to die in the U.S. Senate. The Waxman-Markey legislation is a huge energy tax in a thin disguise, designed to force Americans to switch to more expensive... Full story
Our View: Race-based bias of any sort wrong
Reversal of Sotomayor, however, doesn’t hurt her standing to join Supreme Court
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The U.S. Supreme Court, in perhaps the most eagerly awaited decision of the 2008-09 term, and the last to be announced as the term ended Monday, ruled 5-4 in Ricci v. DeStefano that the city of New Haven, Conn., violated the 1964 (revised in 1991) civil... Full story
Our VIew: Decriminalizing some drugs not a rash proposal
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Editorials in this newspaper are sometimes accused of being Utopian or ivory-tower in nature because they push ideas critics say are unworkable in the modern world. Sometimes that charge is true, as these pages strive to hold government and individuals... Full story
Our View: In the end, it’s integrity that matters
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There's an old newspaper superstition that deaths of famous people come in threes. We sometimes bend our perceptions to see things that way, but last week we didn't have to. The trio of celebrity deaths also seems to demand some reflection on the fleeting... Full story

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