Op-Ed (opinion editorial)

  • Most Topular Stories

  • Beware the Silicon slummers, zillionaires in sweats

    The Seattle Times: Opinion
    15 May 2012 | 4:44 pm
    America educates the mathematicians, engineers and other workers who make tech successes like Facebook possible, and also protects their intellectual property, writes Froma Harrop. Then why are the zillionaires who own such companies so eager to avoid paying their fair share of taxes?

  • The case for more UC autonomy

    L.A. Times - Opinion Blog
    14 May 2012 | 7:01 pm
    The Times’ April 30 editorial, " The danger of UC autonomy ," which challenges our proposal for modernizing University of California governance, deserves a response.

  • Campaign Stops: The Third Party Fantasy

    NYT > Opinion
    By ROSS DOUTHAT
    15 May 2012 | 10:33 pm
    Efforts to create a sensible centrist alternative to the Democratic and Republican parties are weak because they misunderstand where true political insurgency comes from.

  • A History of the world, BRIC by BRIC

    Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
    Pepe Escobar
    8 May 2012 | 12:48 pm
    Goldman Sachs — via economist Jim O'Neill — invented the concept of a rising new bloc on the planet: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). Some cynics couldn't help calling it the “Bloody Ridiculous Investment Concept.” Not really. Goldman now expects the BRICS countries to account for almost 40% of global gross domestic product (GDP) by 2050, and to include four of the world's top five economies. Soon, in fact, that acronym may have to expand to include Turkey, Indonesia, South (...) - Open page

  • Friction with China a small price to pay for promoting democracy

    The Seattle Times: Opinion
    15 May 2012 | 4:42 pm
    In the case of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, the United States has shown there are higher values to advance even at the cost of political conflict with a major trading partner and sovereign nation, writes guest columnist Alex Alben.
 
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    L.A. Times - Opinion Blog

  • Contrasting the candidates: Same-sex marriage

    15 May 2012 | 3:18 pm
    Who's the bigger flip-flopper on same-sex marriage, Mitt Romney or President Obama? When it comes to hot-button issues like this one, both politicians appear to have tailored their views according to the political winds -- but that doesn't mean they don't have fundamental differences, particularly as each man's position has "evolved."

  • Think it can't get worse for California? Stick around

    15 May 2012 | 2:40 pm
    On Tuesday morning, The Times’ headline on its news story read: "Jerry Brown's plea to voters: 'Please increase taxes temporarily' "

  • The case for more UC autonomy

    14 May 2012 | 7:01 pm
    The Times’ April 30 editorial, " The danger of UC autonomy ," which challenges our proposal for modernizing University of California governance, deserves a response.

  • Is it safe to consume milk?

    14 May 2012 | 4:34 pm
    Last week was all about breast milk -- specifically, a big kid standing on a stool while being nursed by his young, attractive mom on the cover of Time magazine . In all the media hubbub, a story about raw milk infecting 10 people in California with Campylobacter didn't get the attention it deserved.

  • Santa Monica's new capitalist-running-dog parking meters

    14 May 2012 | 3:51 pm
    What in the world is going on in the People’s Republic of Santa Monica?
 
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Washington Post Editorials: Latest Editorial and Editorial Archive

  • Editorial Board: Bigotry blocks a gay Virginian from the bench

    Editorial Board
    15 May 2012 | 6:59 pm
    IF ANYTHING, Tracy Thorne-Begland, a top state prosecutor in Richmond with a decade of courtroom experience, is overqualified for a judgeship on the General District Court. Mr. Thorne-Begland, who has prosecuted dozens of homicides and other major felonies, runs one of the biggest commonwealth’s attorney’s offices in Virginia. The caseload of the court to which he was nominated consists mainly of traffic violations, minor crimes and run-of-the-mill civil disputes over contracts and late rent payments. Read full article >>

  • Editorial Board: The American Community Survey is a count worth keeping

    Editorial Board
    15 May 2012 | 6:58 pm
    ACCORDING TO Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.), it is “intrusive,” “an inappropriate use of taxpayer dollars,” “unconstitutional,” and “the very picture of what’s wrong in D.C.” What manner of predatory government prompted Mr. Webster — supported by nearly all House Republicans — to issue such categorical condemnation? That intolerable federal boondoggle known as . . . the American Community Survey (ACS). Read full article >>

  • Editorial Board: Europe needs Germany to lighten up

    Editorial Board
    15 May 2012 | 6:58 pm
    IT MAY ALREADY be too late to prevent Greece from defaulting on its debts and leaving the euro, Europe’s common currency. But there still may be time to prevent Greece’s woes from dragging down the rest of Europe, and the world. For that to happen, though, Europe’s leaders must think clearly about the issues before them, especially the great “austerity vs. growth” debate. Read full article >>

  • Editorial Board: Ukraine’s windfall offers freedom from Russia

    Editorial Board
    14 May 2012 | 6:39 pm
    VIKTOR YANUKOVYCH deserves no reward for his heavy-handed rule as president of Ukraine. His term has brought increasing corruption, a concentration of power in the presidency and show trials of political opponents. The most worrying has been the case of Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister who now languishes in prison on a seven-year sentence. Read full article >>

  • Editorial Board: The Post’s choice: Tim Day for Ward 5

    Editorial Board
    14 May 2012 | 6:37 pm
    IT IS ELECTION DAY in Ward 5 of the District of Columbia, and voters there have a chance to make a big impact on the city. With their former council member heading to prison, and top city leaders under investigation, the right choice from Ward 5 could go a long way toward putting the city back on the right track. Read full article >>
 
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Our Opinion

  • Today's Mike Luckovich cartoon 05/16

    Mike Luckovich
    15 May 2012 | 10:52 pm
    Cartoonist Mike Luckovich's take on Mitt Romney.

  • Revisit down payment rule

    Johnny Isakson
    15 May 2012 | 4:40 pm
    We face a sobering statistic in housing today: An estimated 33 percent of homes in Georgia and 22 percent of homes nationwide are “underwater,” meaning homeowners owe more on their homes than what their homes are worth.

  • Today's Mike Luckovich cartoon 05/15

    Mike Luckovich
    14 May 2012 | 10:18 pm
    Cartoonist Mike Luckovich's take on Aimee Copeland.

  • T-SPLOST not the answer

    Peter Pfeifer
    14 May 2012 | 4:49 pm
    Those who are about my age might remember a song, “The City of New Orleans.” It was Arlo Guthrie’s biggest hit and also was recorded by Willie Nelson, John Denver, Johnny Cash, Hank Snow, Judy Collins, Jerry Reed and others.

  • Golden age of public transit

    By Tom Sabulis
    14 May 2012 | 4:49 pm
    Transit enthusiast Taras Grescoe, 45, has never owned a car. “I was always trying to make a life without a car,” says the veteran travel writer, who lives in Montreal.
 
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    San Francisco Bay Area and California Opinion News — — SFGate

  • Yes on Prop. A - Fees could total $50 million

    Quentin L. Kopp,Tony Kelly
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    If there were a way to get as much as $50 million a year for San Francisco's budget, without raising taxes, fees or garbage rates, don't you think we should do it? That's what Proposition A on the June 5 ballot does, by...

  • Vote no on San Francisco Proposition A

    Ryan McKee
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    An important measure is on the San Francisco ballot in June that will determine the future of San Francisco's recycling and composting-collection service. I am asking that you reject Proposition A. Under the system in...

  • U.S. Navy ship should be named for Harvey Milk

    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    Naming a U.S. Navy ship after the late Harvey Milk might seem incongruous. Milk, a leading gay activist known as "the mayor of Castro Street," was elected to the Board of Supervisors in 1977 and was assassinated in 1978....

  • Show S.F. kids their city

    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    Visitors from the far corners of the world come to San Francisco to enjoy sights like Golden Gate Park and Ocean Beach. How sad to read that 50 percent of middle school kids attending Roosevelt Middle School in the...

  • S.F. schools' teacher layoff plan is flawed

    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    San Francisco's lowest-performing schools need help, not rigid labor rules. But that's just what over a dozen bottom-rung schools are getting as the teachers union insists on seniority-based layoffs that will devastate...
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    The Seattle Times: Opinion

  • Beware the Silicon slummers, zillionaires in sweats

    15 May 2012 | 4:44 pm
    America educates the mathematicians, engineers and other workers who make tech successes like Facebook possible, and also protects their intellectual property, writes Froma Harrop. Then why are the zillionaires who own such companies so eager to avoid paying their fair share of taxes?

  • Friction with China a small price to pay for promoting democracy

    15 May 2012 | 4:42 pm
    In the case of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, the United States has shown there are higher values to advance even at the cost of political conflict with a major trading partner and sovereign nation, writes guest columnist Alex Alben.

  • Romney's economic policies short on specifics

    15 May 2012 | 4:09 pm
    For Mitt Romney to take advantage of economic uncertainty, he'll have to make the case that his policies will work better than President Obama's, writes Eugene Robinson. But Romney's policies are basically the same as those of George W. Bush, only worse.

  • Why the president remains afloat amid a struggling economy

    15 May 2012 | 4:09 pm
    National polls tell us President Obama is either even or slightly ahead of Mitt Romney at this point, which David Brooks finds surprising given the state of the economy. Most of the cause, he concludes, is personal. More Americans than not like the president's leadership style.

  • JPMorgan's $2 billion loss

    15 May 2012 | 3:55 pm
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    seattlepi.com: Opinion & Commentary

  • Candace Calloway Whiting

    15 May 2012 | 7:38 pm
    Candace Calloway Whiting has studied and trained dolphins, seals, and orca whales. She is currently a volunteer at the Center for Whale Research at Friday Harbor.

  • Robert A. Brown

    14 May 2012 | 4:31 pm
    Just another weblog

  • Steve Berman

    14 May 2012 | 12:25 pm
    Steve Berman is managing partner and co-founder of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, a Seattle-based law firm representing the rights of consumers, investors and the environment.

  • J.A. Jance

    12 May 2012 | 10:12 am
    J.A. Jance is the New York Times bestselling author of both the J. P. Beaumont series and the Joanna Brady Series. She has written 40 novels and she has more than 10 million copies of her books in print. Visit her Web site: JAJance.com.

  • Dick Falkenbury

    11 May 2012 | 11:41 pm
    Dick Falkenbury grew up and spent most of his life in the Roosevelt area of Seattle. He began driving cabs in 1978, later becoming a tour driver and tour bus driver in 1992. In 1996, having worked in many liberal political campaigns in the Seattle area, Falkenbury wrote and led an initiative effort to build a monorail throughout Seattle.
 
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Opinion

  • Furniture set, now about that pension

    Ron Littlepage
    16 May 2012 | 1:21 am
    Mousing around the news of the day ... click. Turn out the lights; the courthouse furniture flap is all but over. Just as he said he would, Mayor Alvin Brown vetoed legislation the City Council approved 18-1 ordering the administration to spend $750,000 to finish furnishing the new courthouse. The council will now override that veto. That became more certain after Council President Stephen Joost spent four hours examining the old furniture Brown wanted to use instead. read more

  • Letters from readers: How times change

    Staff
    15 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    NOTE TO READERS Members of the Email Group were invited to comment on how life has changed in America for better or worse. HOW TIMES CHANGE Pandering to illegalsMany years ago, I can remember how proud we were and how hard we worked to become legal American citizens. Our top concern was to learn the English language. Every day when I came home from school, I was quizzed on what I had learned. read more

  • Lead letter: Obtuseness by FSCJ leaders needs remedy

    Staff
    15 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    The taxpayers of Florida and members of the Legislature need to tell the leadership of Florida State College at Jacksonville and its board of trustees to shape up or look for jobs elsewhere. They may thrive better in the private sector where fiscal information can be kept secret from the public. As it is, the FSCJ team headed by President Steve Wallace and his top vice president, Donald Green, is engaged in what can only be called “studied obtuseness” or perhaps stupidity. read more

  • U.S. budget crisis is a test of character

    The Times-Union
    15 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    In a basic and fundamental way, a nation’s finances reflect its character. And that character can be charted like a profit and loss statement. That is the main conclusion that can be derived from the book “Boomerang” by Michael Lewis. Lewis has previously written a book about Paul O’Neil, George W. Bush’s Secretary of the Treasury. For “Boomerang,” he toured a group of nations with the most interesting stories to tell about the world’s financial condition. read more

  • Letters from readers: Mandatory sentences

    Staff
    14 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    MANDATORY SENTENCES Founders would be dismayedWhen the British discovered that John Hancock's ship, The Liberty, was involved in smuggling, the British brought a case for fines and penalties against him and seized his ship. After a five-month trial a judge, sitting without a jury, awarded the ship to the British government. A few years later, when it came time to draft the Bill of Rights, the Founders included in it an Amendment that provided all Americans with the right to trial by jury. read more
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Commentary - baltimoresun.com

  • Attachment legislating: Corporate cash and the GOP

    15 May 2012 | 12:08 pm
    If money is the mother's milk of politics...If money is the mother's milk of politics, then America's big corporations are Big Mama, and Big Baby is the Republican Party suckling at the enormous bosom of business. Democrats, meanwhile, are abandoned brats scrounging for nourishment wherever they can find it.

  • Beer, baseball and Baltimore

    15 May 2012 | 11:09 am
    How local entrepreneurs brewed up a plan to bring big league ball to Charm CityThis is a tale about Baltimore beer barons, the owner of the Washington Senators, a silver bullet, and how the Orioles got to Baltimore. Now, with the O's generating a buzz as they fight for first place in the American League East and prepare to meet the Washington Nationals for a weekend series in D.C., it seems like a good time to spin it.

  • Is Obama too smart to be a good president?

    15 May 2012 | 11:06 am
    Obama's nuance is taken for indecisivenessAs devotees of Barack Obama know all too well, qualities that made him so attractive as a candidate — an affinity for subtle arguments, a tendency to carefully weigh his options — have at times proved less useful in his role as president. That carefulness has been read as indecisiveness. The subtle arguments have sounded, to some ears, like hedging. In response, the president has simplified his rhetoric. The nuances of the 2009 Cairo speech about relations between the U.S. and the Muslim world have given way to chest thumping over killing…

  • Government is flawed, but markets are too

    15 May 2012 | 11:01 am
    Tom Schaller asks: Why don't private-sector inefficiencies, which drive up costs, drive us crazy the way public-sector waste does?This column may stress you out. It stressed me out just writing it.

  • The tea party's war on common sense

    15 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    Defeat of Dick Lugar robs the nation of what it needs most -- a reasonable manTea party advocates in Indiana are congratulating themselves on the Republican primary victory of one of their own, Richard Mourdock, over six-term Senate veteran Richard Lugar. But the rest of the country should be mourning the departure of the epitome of what Washington needs much more of: conscientious bipartisanship.
 
 
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    The Orange County Register - News Headlines : Opinion

  • Editorial: California universities less appealing

    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    California keeps breaking. Example: Kids in the state aren't choosing California universities as much as in the past. According to a survey released last week by the Public Policy Institute of California, "Enrollment rates at UC and CSU have fallen...

  • Morning letters: No redemption for California's lost paradise

    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    IRVINE, Frederick Bruno: Our esteemed governor tells us that the budget deficit has reached $16 billion [“Governor warns of cuts,” Front Page, May 15]. Four months ago the projected deficit was just more than $9 billion, but because of the...

  • Dan Walters: Brown’s new budget a pitch for higher taxes

    By DAN WALTERS
    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Just a few months ago, Gov. Jerry Brown chastised "declinists" and "dystopian journalists" for their pessimism about California, particularly about it emerging from a deep recession. "Contrary to those critics who fantasize that California is a...

  • Editorial: Wisconsin recall heads toward intense finish

    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Wisconsin no doubt has become the battleground state for government reform, at least as regards efforts to tame the undue political power of public employee unions. As the June 5 recall election of Republican Gov. Scott Walker nears, his campaign has...

  • Ron Hart: Obama ‘evolves’; Romney ‘flip-flops’

    By RON HART
    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Obama got it right about gay marriage by finally announcing he is for it as a states' right issue. Kudos. The president overturned Bill Clinton's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy last year, and now he has come out in support of gay marriage. My guess...
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    SacBee -- Editorials

  • Editorial: Craft a clean transportation bill by June 30

    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Republicans and Democrats in Congress have failed for three years to reach common ground on a multiyear transportation bill to replace the 2005-09 bill. We're now on our ninth short-term extension, which expires June 30.

  • Editorial: Gov. Jerry Brown, lawmakers have a month to get California budget right

    15 May 2012 | 2:42 pm
    Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democratic-controlled Legislature passed a budget last year that was built on a rickety foundation of false hopes. If that wasn't apparent at the time, it is now that the budget deficit has ballooned to $15.7 billion, up from Brown's $9.2 billion estimate from only four months ago. Gov. Jerry Brown touts his support for K-12 schools while unveiling his revised budget Monday.

  • Editorial Notebook: Politician keeps her word, even at a cost

    15 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    The conference room at the Doubletree Hotel had the feel of a revival meeting Saturday morning. It was filled with mostly elderly black church women who prayed and listened to hymns and inspiring speeches by women who talked about how they had overcome personal struggles.

  • Editorial: City can't keep cutting to plug budget deficit

    14 May 2012 | 9:45 am
    Tuesday, the City Council dives into the details of Sacramento's proposed 2012-13 budget. It will focus on three departments – fire, police, and parks and recreation – whose services residents probably notice most. A firefighter helps a passenger hurt in an RT train-car collision in March. Most calls handled by the Sacramento Fire Department are for medical emergencies.

  • Editorial: Desperate times at UC trigger some desperate brainstorming

    13 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Given vast fluctuations and declines in revenue from the state, University of California chancellors are getting desperate and creative.
 
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Arkansas Online stories: Opinion and Letters*

  • Attention to orders

    <StaffMember: The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette>
    15 May 2012 | 3:48 am
    YOU’D think some folks had never watched the planes fly into those towers in New York City. Had never seen the footage of soldiers and civilians—one of them was named Rumsfeld—getting the wounded out of a smoldering Pentagon. Had never heard of Let’s Roll!—the rallying cry of the first Americans to fight back in that airplane over Pennsylvania.

  • Why we regulate

    PAUL KRUGMAN NEW YORK TIMES
    15 May 2012 | 3:47 am
    One of the characters in the classic 1939 film Stagecoach is a banker named Gatewood who lectures his captive audience on the evils of big government, especially bank regulation: “As if we bankers don’t know how to run our own banks!” he exclaims. As the film progresses, we learn that Gatewood is in fact skipping town with a satchel full of embezzled cash.

  • Overweight nation

    WASHINGTON POST
    15 May 2012 | 3:46 am
    Good news? In the Journal of Preventive Medicine, health policy experts estimated that 42 percent of American adults will be obese in 2030. That’s a 9-point drop from an earlier projection.

  • The trail reveals the character

    CASEY SEILER ALBANY TIMES UNION
    15 May 2012 | 3:46 am
    There are two types of political junkies: Those who remember the summer of 1992 as the opening months of Bill Clinton’s battle with George HW. Bush, and those who remember it as the season that brought forth Richard Ben Cramer’s nonfiction classic What It Takes: The Way to the White House, a 1,047-page slab of reportage on the previous presidential election.

  • Over in an instant

    <StaffMember: Mike Masterson>
    15 May 2012 | 3:45 am
    If you’re searching for evidence of how unpredictable physical existence can be, look no further than Joseph Landers, the popular police chief for 15 years in Lowell before his death, following a motorcycle accident, nearly two weeks ago in Panama City, Florida.
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    The News & Observer -- O | Editorials

  • On task

    ()
    15 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Welcome back. We may have a lot of rain, and it?s alternately too hot or too chilly in the Capital City this time of year. And oh, the traffic. No…Click to Continue »

  • Costs of cheating

    ()
    15 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Cheating is meant to subvert the grading process itself. When it is detected, the proper penalty involves canceling credit for the illegitimate work.Click to Continue »

  • Man in the middle

    ()
    14 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    For a short refresher course in some of the high (and low) points of 1960s U.S. history, there was plenty of material in accounts of the life of former U.S.Click to Continue »

  • What gives?

    ()
    14 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Enough is enough. The controversy surrounding Julius Nyangoro, professor and now-former chair of the African and Afro-American Studies department at UNC-Chapel Hill, is expanding into possible courtroom action. A specific…Click to Continue »

  • Saving the P.O.

    ()
    13 May 2012 | 8:00 pm
    A decision by the U.S. Postal Service to keep thousands of rural post offices open despite the financial crunch the USPS is facing is a wise reflection of pressure from…Click to Continue »
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Editorials - Courant.com

  • Top UConn Cop Gets Lucrative Send-off

    15 May 2012 | 4:04 pm
    Robert Hudd: Former UConn police chief gets a going-away gift for his retirement at 55Just when it appeared Robert Hudd had drunk his fill at the public trough, here he is, back for another deep swallow.

  • Finally, Vatican Investigates Legion Of Christ Sex Abuse Allegations

    15 May 2012 | 4:04 pm
    Powerful order had said any crimes were committed by founder, but is now referring other casesAt long last, the Roman Catholic Church is taking action to investigate allegations concerning priests from the Legion of Christ, whose U.S. headquarters is in Connecticut.

  • Remarkable Hartford Cathedral's 50th Anniversary

    14 May 2012 | 6:01 pm
    Hartford post-modern landmark rose from the ashes of neo-Gothic predecessorAfter Hartford's Cathedral of St. Joseph was destroyed by fire the night 1956 became 1957, stunned Roman Catholics vowed to rebuild what had been one of the state's largest houses of worship. They followed through on that promise magnificently.

  • Preserve Places That Made Connecticut 'Revolutionary'

    14 May 2012 | 6:01 pm
    Branding: New ad campaign features state history and innovationThere's an adage in advertising that half the money is wasted — you just don't know which half. Former Gov.M. Jodi Relltook no chances — she eliminated both halves of the state's tourism marketing budget, even cutting the contribution to the Discover New England marketing effort, which then put out a map of New England that didn't include Connecticut.

  • Stunt Shows Profligacy Of $180,000 Website

    11 May 2012 | 7:39 pm
    Rochambeau Website: Candidate shows it can be done cheaper — way cheaperAmong the flotsam at the Capitol last week was a bill for a website to highlight the portion of the Washington-Rochambeau national trail that is in Connecticut. Fortunately, the expensive website idea died.
 
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Editorials

  • Mercury News editorial: Sheriff, others sliming Rose Herrera should be ashamed

    <p class="Byline">Mercury News Editorial</p>
    15 May 2012 | 8:03 pm
    Sheriff Laurie Smith ought to be ashamed of herself. So should the San Jose police and firefighter unions and everybody else slinging slime at District 8 Councilwoman Rose Herrera for voting her conscience and speaking her mind on pension reform.Smith's public withdrawal of her endorsement of Herrera's re-election last week without even telling the candidate beforehand was craven. The county sheriff threw her lot in with the city public safety unions, which are misrepresenting Herrera's record in office in every way imaginable. (As one example, Herrera never advocated cuts to the police…

  • Mercury News editorial: Jerry Hill for Silicon Valley's 13th state Senate district

    <p class="Byline">Mercury News Editorial</p>
    15 May 2012 | 8:03 pm
    A cursory look at Jerry Hill and Sally Lieber, the 13th District state Senate candidates to replace termed-out Sen. Joe Simitian, might seem to indicate there isn't much difference between them. They're both Democrats, former mayors and two-term members of the Assembly.However, Hill is a far more effective legislator and the best choice for Silicon Valley, where he understands the innovation economy and has good relationships with business leaders. He is the right choice on June 5.Hill is a tenacious fighter who, in the Assembly, has worked to hold PG&E accountable for the San Bruno…

  • Mercury News editorial: Simitian-Evans plan to keep state parks open deserves support

    <p class="Byline">Mercury News Editorial</p>
    14 May 2012 | 11:10 pm
    When then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger first proposed shutting dozens of state parks to help close the deficit in 2008, it was a terrible idea, and he eventually dropped it. State parks are a remarkable legacy for California's children. Tens of millions of people visit every year, and all 278 have value. In fact, the savings in Schwarzenegger's plan were a sham: The costs of closed parks -- lost tourism, vandalism, fires -- would have outweighed any potential savings.When Gov. Jerry Brown last year proposed closing 70 parks by July 1, it was an equally terrible idea. It still is, even in…

  • Mercury News editorial: VA 'black hole' in Oakland is an atrocity

    <p class="Byline">Mercury News Editorial</p>
    14 May 2012 | 8:52 am
    The Coliseum's rowdy section during Raiders games isn't the only "black hole" in Oakland. The regional office of the Department of Veterans Affairs has earned that nefarious moniker from California veterans who must deal with it. To hear them tell it, the office is where valid benefit claims go to die, or at least to languish interminably. Now an audit by the VA's own inspector general backs up their view, and then some. The report blisters the Oakland office, which is responsible for veterans' benefit claims from Bakersfield to the Oregon border. The findings are outrageous on at…

  • Mercury News editorial: Ly Tong trial fascinates, and raises questions

    <p class="Byline">Mercury News Editorial</p>
    11 May 2012 | 4:07 pm
    The trial of world-famous anti-Communist Ly Tong this week for dressing in drag, climbing onto a concert stage in Santa Clara and pepper-spraying a singer from Vietnam is gripping on many levels. The former South Vietnamese air force pilot long has been a hero for freedom-loving Vietnamese emigrants but probably is best known in other cultures for his month-long hunger strike to force San Jose to name a shopping area Little Saigon. That pretty much worked. The outcome of the attack on singer Dam Vinh Hung is murkier. We'll leave the question of criminal guilt to the jury, but the incident…
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    DesMoinesRegister.com - OPINION

  • Your 2 Cents' Worth: Tuesday, May 15, 2012

    14 May 2012 | 11:28 pm
    Wouldn't it be interesting if all of the incumbents were voted out this election? At least we would have people starting out to "earn their keep" instead of disagreeing on everything. Politicians spend 75% of their time raising money to get re-elected.

  • Obradovich: Lange says he's better organized for 2012

    14 May 2012 | 7:39 pm
    It was one of the first things Republican Ben Lange said to a Grinnell audience at a 1st Congressional District candidate forum last weekend: This isn't about last time. Lange, 33, a lawyer from Independence, lost to Rep.

  • Calling Iowa's young writers: We want to hear from you

    14 May 2012 | 7:37 pm
    Thirteen years ago, The Des Moines Register opinion pages assembled its first Young Adult Board of Contributors. In the decade that followed we published scores of excellent essays by younger Iowans. They wrote about every topic under the sun.

  • Brooks: Obama's proclamation has a familiar ring

    14 May 2012 | 7:35 pm
    Like Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, President Obama's declaration that gay and lesbian Americans deserve a right to marry is a historic statement of principle, even though its practical policy implications are limited because the states, not

  • Facts are too important to be left to the press

    14 May 2012 | 7:29 pm
    Thomas J. Glennon ("Soldiers Fighting for U.S., Not for President," May 11) was right on target when he asks, "Is our media covering for a politician, rather than reporting accurately what was said?" The answer to his question is extremely important, espe
 
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    FresnoBee.com: Opinion

  • EDITORIAL: Will Democrats finally face budget reality?

    15 May 2012 | 2:28 pm
    Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democratic Legislature passed a phony budget last year. Now the state budget deficit, estimated at $9.2 billion only four months ago, has ballooned to $15.7 billion. Read comments

  • EDITORIAL: Police union, city must work together on budget

    15 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    It is unfortunate that the city and the Fresno Police Officers Association can’t find a way to close the budget gap without playing political games that undoubtedly will take negotiations into an 11th-hour crisis. In the end, there will be a compromise — unless both sides think a fiscal emergency is a good idea. Read comments

  • EDITORIAL: UC system shouldn't go in private direction

    14 May 2012 | 9:19 am
    Given vast fluctuations and declines in revenue from the state, University of California chancellors are getting desperate and creative. State funding is 11% of the $22.5 billion operating budget for the 10 UC campuses. The rest comes from the federal government, student tuition and private philanthropy. Read comments

  • EDITORIAL: Creative jail solution worth pursuing

    13 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    We don't blame Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer for looking to other counties to house suspects that his officers arrest. There isn't room in the Fresno County Jail, which doesn't have the funding to open empty jail floors. It's so bad that more than 30,600 inmates were released from jail early due to overcrowding between 2009 and 2011. Read comments

  • EDITORIAL: Thumbs up, thumbs down

    12 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Thumbs up to Jose Ramirez, a boxer from Avenal who earned a spot to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Ramirez, 19, defeated Alejandro Rynn of Canada with a score of 23-11 in their lightweight bout. Rynn took a standing-8 count in the first round and two more in the third. Read comments
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Opinion Blog

  • TSA shows its ignorance in Kissinger encounter

    Readers' Page
    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    To the Editor: What do Transportation Security Administration pat-downs and our nation's education system have in common? They are both broken! Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger, 88, had to get out of his wheelchair for a pat-down as he...

  • Expand your horizons with OASIS programs

    Readers' Page
    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    To the Editor: IF you are 50 or over, and feel like you have been lost in a desert trying to find something to do, I found an OASIS in Syracuse that you may want to check out. OASIS is...

  • Use mulch correctly to allow tree to thrive

    Readers' Page
    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    To the Editor: Trees matter a lot. When trees are planted, wood-mulch is often piled against the tree trunk like a volcano. It should be the inverse, namely, like a caldera or crater. A good rule of thumb is no...

  • Add Syracuse University to list of sources who won't comment

    Readers' Page
    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    To the Editor: In his pointless column Saturday, David M. Rubin conspicuously omits one of the most egregious practitioners of the ''no comment'' practice: Syracuse University. Could he be playing political correctness with his comments to avoid offending his former...

  • Make adjustments to coexist with coyotes

    Readers' Page
    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    To the Editor: Monday evening there was a town meeting in Salina to discuss concerns about the coyote population. Some people want to kill them, but I don't think that's a good idea. Here's why: Some people are afraid of...
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Toledo Blade Latest Headlines

  • Toledo is getting more 'likes'

    16 May 2012 | 12:30 am
    Social media fans now can access news and information about the City of Toledo on Facebook.

  • Groups oppose relicensing Davis-Besse

    16 May 2012 | 12:30 am
    PORT CLINTON -- A federal agency has canceled a legal hearing related to relicensing the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant after groups opposing that relicensing requested time to respond to amendments the plant's owner has made to its application.

  • Lucas County Dogs for Adoption: 5-16

    16 May 2012 | 12:15 am
    Dogs remain available at the Lucas County Dog Warden’s Office, 410 South Erie St., Toledo. For information, call 419-213-2800.

  • Accident halts traffic on I-475

    16 May 2012 | 12:03 am
    An accident on westbound I-475 has stalled traffic early Wednesday morning and police were on the scene.

  • Cougars shut down Blue Devils

    15 May 2012 | 11:43 pm
    Southview softball players are awarded special stickers when they come up with clutch, two-out hits, and three Cougars will have more helmet decorations after key performances in an upset of state-ranked Springfield on Tuesday.
 
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    TribLIVE RSS Feeds

  • North Shore Connector: Boondoggle still

    16 May 2012 | 5:23 pm
    Wed, 16 May 2012 17:23:13One of the side narratives to emerge with operational problems surrounding ...

  • The Delta deal

    16 May 2012 | 5:23 pm
    Wed, 16 May 2012 17:23:13Delta Air Lines is disputing contentions that it will have trouble succeedi...

  • Tuesday takes

    15 May 2012 | 5:23 pm
    Tue, 15 May 2012 17:23:12Bitter taste: Former West Penn Allegheny Health System CEO Christopher Oliv...

  • The JPMorgan mess: Revive Glass-Steagall

    15 May 2012 | 5:23 pm
    Tue, 15 May 2012 17:23:12The great hue and cry in the aftermath of JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s revelation...

  • Elizabeth Warren's woes

    13 May 2012 | 5:23 pm
    Sun, 13 May 2012 17:23:10Elizabeth Warren, the Democrats' collectivist U.S. Senate candidate in Mass...
 
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Editorial and Opinion | The Times of India

  • 'No agreement with Dhaka can succeed without West Bengal'

    3 May 2012 | 1:30 pm
    Veena Sikri Sameer Arshad , former Indian envoy to Bangladesh, has been facilitating people-to-people contact, ironing out creases in bilateral ties. Head of Jamia Millia Islamia's Bangladesh Studies Programme, Sikri spoke with about blocks to peace east of India - and how these can be moved.

  • Principle of dependent arising

    3 May 2012 | 1:30 pm
    The principle governing pratityasamutpada or dependent arising - also called interdependent origination and conditioned co-production - is a cornerstone in Buddhist philosophical thought.

  • Batman, don't return

    3 May 2012 | 1:30 pm
    Doing away with the sahayak system

  • Shady deal

    3 May 2012 | 1:30 pm
    Crimes against women seen through a tinted glass, darkly

  • The heart of the matter

    3 May 2012 | 1:30 pm
    The tendency to centralise power in the Union government has subverted the spirit of federalism
 
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    - Opinion RSS Feed

  • Leading article: Of Facebook shares and tulip bulbs

    15 May 2012 | 6:00 pm
    Testament to the human capacity for optimism, the financial world is increasingly bullish about Facebook. And the company itself – based on the newly hiked price at which it will float on the stock market at the end of the week – estimates its worth at $100bn or more, bigger than such stalwarts as Disney, Ford and Kraft.

  • Matthew Norman: Be bold, Ed – bring Alistair Darling back into the fold

    15 May 2012 | 6:00 pm
    Reshuffles come and reshuffles go, and Ed Miliband's afternoon of the short spoons came and went with such minimal impact that it barely deserves the title at all. If the dealer shuffled in such dilatory fashion at a Vegas poker table, you'd assume the game was rigged and head to another casino.

  • Leading article: Sensible reforms that must be fair

    15 May 2012 | 6:00 pm
    At its simplest, the reform of the disability living allowance is a good idea. Since the benefit was introduced in 1992, the cost has quadrupled; the number of claimants has shot up by 30 per cent in the past nine years alone; and the cost to the taxpayer, at the current rate, will soon top £13bn every year.

  • Lisa Markwell: It's her needs that make my daughter special

    15 May 2012 | 6:00 pm
    I'm sorry. I'm sorry my daughter kicked your daughter and that she ran out of the classroom and climbed up the bookcase. I'm sorry you felt you couldn't invite my daughter to your son's birthday party and that the school felt unable to include my daughter on the adventure week away. I'm sorry that my gorgeous, mercurial, unpredictable, music-loving and, yes, difficult child does not fit the standard-issue template of a child. But I'm not sorry that she has a Statement of Special Needs. I'm not sorry that she gets funding for extra help at school.

  • Grace Dent: Twitter might have turned into a party with 10 million guests, but I'm still loving every minute of it

    15 May 2012 | 6:00 pm
    Welcome, Britain's official 10 millionth Twitter user. Pull up a username, excrete your first techno-brainfart, make yourself comfy. If you're a Twitterland newby this week you'll notice we're mostly doing Joey Barton v Gary Lineker, the saga of Rebekah Brooks, silly Huey Morgan, Cameron's love for Pink Floyd, and that dog on Britain's Got Talent who "dances" for a cunningly hidden ham sandwich. Or perhaps that's just my timeline.
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

  • Gove's Bibles: good for schools?

    16 May 2012 | 3:30 am
    This week, copies of the King James Bible were sent out to every state school in the country, courtesy of the education secretary Michael Gove. They were paid for by donations, not from the public purse. Tell us if you think the scheme is a good idea, and if you don't, use the thread below to suggest books that could have been donated instead

  • Chávez's economics lesson for Europe | Richard Gott

    Richard Gott
    16 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    Hugo Chávez's rejection of the neoliberal policies dragging Europe down sets a hopeful example to Greece and beyondSome years ago, travelling on the presidential plane of Hugo Chávez of Venezuela with a French friend from Le Monde Diplomatique, we were asked what we thought was happening in Europe. Was there any chance of a move to the left? We replied in the depressed and pessimistic tones typical of the early years of the 21st century. Neither in Britain nor France, nor anywhere in the eurozone, did we see much chance of a political breakthrough.Then maybe, said Chávez with a twinkle, we…

  • Steve Bell on Rebekah Brooks being charged over phone-hacking 'cover-up'

    Steve Bell
    15 May 2012 | 5:35 pm
    Former News International CEO expressed her anger that those close to her have been 'dragged into the affair'Steve Bell

  • In praise of … tweets

    15 May 2012 | 4:52 pm
    UK tweeters – and there are now 10 million – have discovered myriad ways in which less is more#JustSaying, but when we first hailed Twitter in 2007, many doubters were withering about another electronic outlet for compulsive communicators – with a 140-character limit to guarantee they could relay nothing tastier than what they'd had for breakfast. But UK tweeters – and there are now 10 million – have since discovered myriad ways in which less is more. "There's a plane in the Hudson", with a link to the photo, really was all that needed to be said when that occurred. Brevity brings…

  • If there were global justice, Nato would be in the dock over Libya

    Seumas Milne
    15 May 2012 | 4:20 pm
    Liberia's Charles Taylor has been convicted of war crimes, so why not the western leaders who escalated Libya's killing?Libya was supposed to be different. The lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan had been learned, David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy insisted last year. This would be a real humanitarian intervention. Unlike Iraq, there would be no boots on the ground. Unlike in Afghanistan, Nato air power would be used to support a fight for freedom and prevent a massacre. Unlike the Kosovo campaign, there would be no indiscriminate cluster bombs: only precision weapons would be used. This would be…
 
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Scotsman.com - News Feed

  • Hester’s £3.3m wages not enough, say RBS investors

    16 May 2012 | 2:57 am
    ROYAL Bank of Scotland chief executive Stephen Hester is not being paid enough, some of the bank’s biggest investors have told MPs.

  • Firefighters tackle blaze at Dundee recycling plant

    16 May 2012 | 2:41 am
    AROUND 30 firefighters have been tackling a blaze at a recycling plant in Dundee.

  • Three cut free after car crash in Highlands

    16 May 2012 | 2:40 am
    THREE people had to be cut free from their vehicles following a collision involving two cars near Grantown-on-Spey, in the Highlands.

  • Breivik trial: man sets himself on fire outside court

    15 May 2012 | 8:35 pm
    A MENTALLY-ILL man has set himself on fire outside the court where right-wing extremist Anders Breivik is being tried for the bombing and shooting massacre that killed 77 people.

  • Eddie Barnes: Honest debate over university tuition costs required

    15 May 2012 | 8:27 pm
    ALEX Salmond famously declared before last year’s Scottish elections that “the rocks will melt with the sun” before he asks graduates to pay back the cost of their tuition after graduating, as is happening in England. The pledge prompted Labour, in slightly less flowery language, and with notably less conviction, to match him as best they could. Now, a drastic acceleration in climate change excepting, it appears that the latter could be the first to have a rethink on this most steaming of hot potatoes.
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Home/Opinion

  • Who said it?

    16 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    Many professionals are dealing with it so the issue … is none of the ICAC's business

  • Public pools cater to different kinds of users

    16 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    I refer to Christine Loh's column ("Lane change", May 4) and her views on public swimming pools managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.

  • Revamp of government secretariats will improve efficiency

    16 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    The proposal to reorganise government secretarirats is the outcome of listening to the public; its aim is to improve efficiency and better address the needs of the people, says CE-elect Leung Chun-ying.

  • Talking points

    16 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    Officials at Eastern Court will be waiting to see whether Alexander de Sola Torgersen turns up to testify this afternoon against Christopher McConville, a 24-year-old Briton charged with selling 76 fake tickets for this year's Rugby Sevens tournament. Torgersen, a 33-year-old Norwegian, failed to reappear in court following an adjournment on Thursday, after identifying McConville as the vendor of fake tickets. A spokeswoman for the Department of Justice said the government had arranged for Torgersen, as the only witness the prosecution had secured, to travel from Norway to Hong Kong.

  • Beijing and Manila still oceans apart on Scarborough Shoal dispute

    16 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    More than a month has passed and Chinese and Philippine naval vessels are still locked in a stand-off over Scarborough Shoal. Nationalists in China and the Philippines have been busy attacking websites and organising demonstrations. And the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has been conspicuously silent.
 
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    Le Monde diplomatique - English edition

  • Welcome to the 2012 Hunger games

    Rebecca Solnit
    11 May 2012 | 4:50 am
    When I was growing up, I ate books for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and since I was constantly running out of reading material, I read everyone else's — which for a girl with older brothers meant science fiction. The books were supposed to be about the future, but they always turned out to be very much about this very moment. Some of them — Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land — were comically of their time: that novel's vision of the good life seemed to owe an awful lot to the Playboy (...) - Open page

  • The Obama contradiction

    Tom Engelhardt
    10 May 2012 | 3:58 am
    He has few constraints (except those he's internalized). No one can stop him or countermand his orders. He has a bevy of lawyers at his beck and call to explain the “legality” of his actions. And if he cares to, he can send a robot assassin to kill you, whoever you are, no matter where you may be on planet Earth. He sounds like a typical villain from a James Bond novel. You know, the kind who captures Bond, tells him his fiendish plan for dominating the planet, ties him up for some no less (...) - Open page

  • What now for François Hollande?

    Alain Gresh
    9 May 2012 | 2:52 am
    So François Hollande has won the second round of the French presidential election on 6 May — the most important ballot in France's political system. This is the first time a Socialist candidate has won the presidency since 1988, when François Mitterrand received a triumphant second mandate. Hollande's victory is being compared with Mitterrand's first election, in 1981, when — for the first time since 1958 and the beginning of the 5th Republic — a Socialist was elected president. In 1981 Mitterrand (...) - Open page

  • A History of the world, BRIC by BRIC

    Pepe Escobar
    8 May 2012 | 12:48 pm
    Goldman Sachs — via economist Jim O'Neill — invented the concept of a rising new bloc on the planet: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). Some cynics couldn't help calling it the “Bloody Ridiculous Investment Concept.” Not really. Goldman now expects the BRICS countries to account for almost 40% of global gross domestic product (GDP) by 2050, and to include four of the world's top five economies. Soon, in fact, that acronym may have to expand to include Turkey, Indonesia, South (...) - Open page

  • The challenge for Hollande

    Roland Hsu
    6 May 2012 | 7:41 pm
    The French have voted for François Hollande as their next president. Behind their choice was the important question of trust. In the US, opinion polls often ask voters whether they “trust” a candidate. In France, since 2007, the question has been moot. For French voters of all political affiliations, Nicolas Sarkozy had for the last five years pursued a vigorous platform of distrust — distrust of organized labor, welfare security, immigrants, rivals among the far right, and of compromise and (...) - Blog posts / Exclusive
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    nzherald.co.nz - Opinion

  • Set of six: Time to cut Kearney

    15 May 2012 | 7:42 pm
    Justis Kamu looks at six issues in the NRL this week, including why the Eels should axe Stephen Kearney, and which team is the biggest disappointment of 2012 so far. 1. Kearney and the Eels don't fit The wheels ar

  • Steven Joyce: Cashing in on overseas students

    15 May 2012 | 5:30 pm
    As a country built on innovation we obviously need to keep lifting investment in our universities, both for the teaching of our best and brightest, and for the research that assists with innovation.That is one reason why the Government...

  • Bryce Edwards: Political round-up: May 16

    15 May 2012 | 5:29 pm
    The media should hold politicians to account, and politicians should be wary of the media - that's the golden rule of political communications. Democracy and politics are best served by a healthy distance and tension between MPs and...

  • Eric Thompson: The neighs have it

    15 May 2012 | 4:30 pm
    I'm beginning to think there is some grand plan that involves me and my responsibility to report both on asinine acts on our roads, and stories in various press outlets.Whenever I mention venturing on to a road - unless you're in...

  • Fran O'Sullivan: Anxious time for super man

    15 May 2012 | 4:30 pm
    Senior Cabinet ministers are standing by like a bunch of anxious midwives in case the impending birth of Steven Joyce's grand business super-ministry turns into another restructuring debacle.Joyce has left nothing to chance.Appointing...
  • add this feed to my.Alltop

    The Irish Times - Opinion

  • An Irishman's Diary

    15 May 2012 | 6:52 pm
    SOMEHOW, the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention – or NAFCo as it’s known for short – sounds more like a military alliance than a musical event.

  • May 16th, 1987

    15 May 2012 | 6:52 pm
    FROM THE ARCHIVES:The emergence of Aids in the 1980s cast a dark shadow for many years, including at the Trinity Ball in 1987, where the main charity and the messages about safe sex made it difficult to ignore. Nevertheless, neither it nor the headline on Kathryn Holmquist’s report managed to spoil the party. –JOE JOYCE

  • Famine should no longer be in our vocabulary

    15 May 2012 | 6:52 pm
    OPINION: Ireland can be leaders in the eradication of malnutrition

  • Bible not the rule book on gay marriage

    15 May 2012 | 6:52 pm
    The Book of Genesis offers magnificent literature but should not be used to perpetuate painful discrimination

  • Taxis and racism

    15 May 2012 | 6:52 pm
    ‘INHERENTLY RACIST and xenophobic” was the verdict of Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar when asked for his opinion about the use of taxi stickers and green lights designed to alert customers that the driver in question was Irish. He welcomed moves by the National Transport Authority to prohibit the practice and said the important thing was for customers to know the identity of the taxi driver and not his race or nationality.
 
Log in