Editorials
Our View: Before a bailout, give us details
Comments | RecommendFor Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to call for something so drastic as to ask Congress for $700 billion to buy up bad loans from investment banks and others, inserting the federal government into the financial...
Our View: Putting state on fast track to bankruptcy
Comments | RecommendProposition 1A on the November ballot would authorize the issuance of $9.95 billion in general-obligation bonds as a small down payment for a high-speed passenger train between Los Angeles and San Francisco. To call this project a boondoggle would be...
Our View: Court controls pest – the state
Comments | RecommendThe 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a groundbreaking decision last week, sided with a small-businessman in dispute over a California licensing requirement that did little more than impose an economic barrier to businesses. The federal court, 2-1,...
Our View: Disingenuous drilling bill
Comments | RecommendCongressional Democrats looking for political cover, not more oil...
Our View: New strategy is needed for Pakistan
Comments | RecommendIt is still unclear whether Pakistani troops actually confronted and turned back U.S. troops who were on the verge of crossing the border from Afghanistan last week in pursuit of Taliban forces that had conducted a raid in Afghanistan and slipped back...
Other Voices: Make the rails safer
Comments | RecommendRegardless of what caused thedeadly Metrolink crash in Chatsworth, there is new technology — in use elsewhere but never installed in Southern California — that probably could have prevented the disaster. Positive train control systems use...
Op-Ed: Nurses' leader demands FRHG offer fair contract
Comments | RecommendHow much more damage will Fremont Rideout Hospital Group administration and board members afflict on its community hospital? I have been a lifelong Yuba-Sutter resident and have worked as a nurse at Rideout for the past 24 years. I have had a seat on...
