Editorials

The Government Accountability Office injected a sense of realism into the high-speed rail debate, detailing in its March 28 report just how large infrastructure projects of this kind work. But the naysayers led by House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, and Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Turlock, don't seem to be listening.

There once was a time when your doctor or pharmacist may have advised you to flush any unused prescription drugs down the toilet. Many people still do so out of habit. If you are one of those, please think twice.

Sometime today, a very fast jet carrying a very important man and his entourage will streak across the Central Valley sky.

Its value may turn out to be as much symbolic as practical, yet the U.N. General Assembly sent a resounding message by passing the first set of ground rules on the global arms trade.

It comes late but at least three members of the board of the Twin Rivers Unified School District appear prepared to remove Cortez Quinn as board president. He should be removed.

The NBA should keep the Kings in Sacramento.

Bottom line, that's the message league owners meeting today in New York need to hear and recognize.

Stockton is broke. What everyone but some Wall Street financiers conceded months ago is now official. Federal Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein declared it so on Monday.

Republicans and Democrats working on an immigration overhaul bill missed their goal of unveiling a draft by March.

On Monday, shoppers in Sacramento started paying a sales tax of 8.5 percent – a half-cent increase that will bring an infusion of cash to City Hall.

Former Fair Political Practices Commission Chairman Dan Schnur wanted to start a "conversation" about Sacramento fundraising.

At the risk of being labeled a fuddy-duddy grammarian, I think it's great that a local council in England backed down from getting rid of apostrophes on street signs.

Ever since Congress failed to agree on budget actions to avoid the "sequester," naysayers have scoffed at the notion that across-the-board cuts would inflict real harm.

Should Hearst Castle be in the California state park system?

As Indian gambling exploded in the region, Sacramento County largely escaped the impacts. That's because none of California's roughly 110 federally recognized tribes held land in the county. But that's about to change.

The conventional wisdom in Washington, D.C., is that barely 100 days after the horror in Newtown, Conn., the momentum for gun control legislation has waned.

For too long, Californians have taken their state park system for granted.

The City Council's vote Tuesday night to help build a new downtown arena could very well turn out to be the game-changer for Sacramento that many of us hope it will be.

In hearing a challenge to California's Proposition 8, Supreme Court justices seemed Tuesday to be shying away from deciding the real issue before them.

Before it filed for bankruptcy protection last June, the city of Stockton cut its police force by 25 percent, its Fire Department by 30 percent and the workforce in all other city departments by 43 percent. The city also cut health benefits to retired city workers, slashed library hours and reduced maintenance at parks.