By Mark Gold and Cara Horowitz You’ve probably seen the images of dolphins caught in abandoned monofilament fishing nets, or of vast areas of plastic trash floating in remote waters of the Pacific, or of sea turtles consuming plastic bags that look remarkably like one of their favorite foods: jellyfish. Or perhaps, after a rainstorm, […]
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By George Miller and Russlynn Ali You don’t need a crystal ball to see America’s future. Just look inside California’s classrooms, where you’ll find 1 in 8 American children. How our country does tomorrow depends on how California’s schools do today. Will America be ready to compete? Are our students on track for success in […]
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To the community, No one wants to wind up in an emergency room to begin with, let alone face the idea of being transported away from your support base of home. Once you get through your situation, it’s then that you begin to think about the costs involved; it’s only natural. I have to tell […]
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By Bob Schieffer, AARP I was a footnote of sorts to the awful events of that weekend in 1963 when John Kennedy died in Dallas. In those days, I was the night police reporter on my hometown newspaper, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. President Kennedy had made a breakfast speech in Fort Worth before going to […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Oct. 21, 2013, Sacramento Bee. Our Declaration of Independence states that “all men are created equal.” Over the years, Americans have removed many barriers to that great aspiration – with the Fourteenth Amendment, the vote for women, the civil rights acts, public education and more. But since the […]
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To the community, The Truckee River Watershed Council would like to thank the 450-plus community volunteers that spent a beautiful fall day working on 14 projects throughout our watershed on Oct. 20. This one day of work has a long-lasting, positive impact on the watershed. Together, we: Completed floodplain restoration Coldstream Canyon. Erected fencing along […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Oct. 22, 2013, Los Angeles Times. The California Master Plan for Higher Education decreed that it was the job of the state’s community colleges to train students for technical careers and for the sort of semi-professional occupations that generally require a two-year associate’s degree. Those who wanted a […]
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To the community, Fear and hate defines the political age we live in; an age of attempts to manipulate the mass of citizens to fear and hate the target of the manipulators by any means necessary. Distortions, lies, whatever works. An example is the campaign to disarm the president of the United States. For openers, […]
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By Emily Yoffe, Slate In one awful high-profile case after another — the U.S. Naval Academy; Steubenville, Ohio; now the allegations in Maryville, Mo. — we read about a young woman, sometimes only a girl, who goes to a party and ends up being raped. As soon as the school year begins, so do reports […]
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To the community, Hosting their first Adopt A day of Nourishment, Camp Richardson Resort sent an energetic sponsor crew to volunteer at Bread & Broth’s Oct. 21 dinner. The crew, consisting of Travis Lauinger, retail manager; Vanessa Santora, sales manager; Christy Catts, general store manager; Mai Dalton, lodging operations director; and Charlie Gaspar, front desk […]
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