Editorials
- Our View: Cool car proposal nonsense
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- Sacramento can be a caricature of bumbling, well-intentioned, paternalistic nonsense. The problem is, when government agencies like the state Air Resources Board stumble ahead with hare-brained schemes, it creates real-life costs and harm.
The air... Full story
- Our View: Paying car insurance by the mile
- An appealing pay-as-you-go program in Texas could come to California
- Appeal-Democrat
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- Odd political bedfellows may find agreement on state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner's decision this week to authorize mileage verification so motorists can purchase car insurance the way they do gasoline.
Poizner seeks to bring to California... Full story
- Other Views: Positive signs
- Chicago Tribune
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- The burst of economic growth in the third quarter reported last week was notable for all the gripes and worries it elicited from commentators. It was dependent on temporary government programs, they said. It may not be sustainable. It's not... Full story
- Our View: Last chance to step back from quagmire
- Karzai re-election gives Obama reason to scale back, rather than escalate, in Afghanistan
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- The electoral outcome has caused almost all concerned to avert their eyes, pretend not to remember the unseemly events that led up to Hamid Karzai securing a second term as president of Afghanistan, and declare that in lieu of a possibly even... Full story
- Op-Ed: The more things change in Yuba-Sutter ...
- By Tom Britzman
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- Recently my wife and I arrived from our Arizona home to attend her 60th Marysville High School reunion. While driving in the Twin Cities area, many memories of the past came back to us. While she was a Marysville "Indian," I was couple of years... Full story
- Our View: About those 'created' stimulus jobs
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- Washington claims 640,000 to 1.5 million jobs have been created or saved by the $787 billion economic stimulus plan. With only about 15 percent of the money spent so far by those intended to receive it, at this rate America might implausibly end up... Full story
- Our View: Time for Obama to take charge
- Appeal-Democrat
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- As he continues to stretch out the timetable on a decision about whether to escalate the U.S. commitment to the war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama has asked for a province-by-province assessment of the tribal and other local leaders in that... Full story