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Friday, May 9, 2008

Editorial: State budget mess begins to be felt in schools

If you want to see the face of California's budget dilemma, look at the public schools. If you do, it will be clear that reducing spending alone will not solve the state's fiscal problem – unless the governor and legislators want local school districts to make truly draconian cuts....(more)

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Editorial: Mayor Fargo should repudiate union's attack ads

Sleazy hit pieces seem to be the unfortunate norm in California politics. But never before have Sacramento voters seen such a despicable independent expenditure campaign as the one Mayor Heather Fargo's supporters launched against Kevin Johnson....(more)

Asimow and Stark: Temporary tax hike is best state budget solution

"Tax, Budget Woes Grow"...(more)

Cal Thomas: The measure of real influence

Time magazine has published another one of those silly and meaningless lists some in the media occasionally and irritatingly compile to validate their self-importance. It is the 100 "most influential people in the world." I didn't make it, but then I don't make other lists like People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive," which must be an oversight....(more)

Letters to the editor

First-responders short-changed...(more)

Trudy Rubin: The looming threat to Israel lies within

When Israel's independence was proclaimed in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948, as leaders of the nascent state sang "Hatikva" (Hope), few could have imagined the vibrant state that exists today....(more)

Gail Collins: Carrying a torch for '08 primary

It's been a while since we last gave thought to the Olympic torch. Where is the little guy these days, anyway? Still getting good hotel rooms?...(more)

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Obama is the answer

North Carolina and Indiana primary voters have moved the seemingly endless Democratic presidential race significantly closer to its end....(more)

Andres Oppenheimer: Bolivia vote aftershock

The 84 percent victory of pro-autonomy forces in Sunday's referendum called by Bolivia's wealthy eastern province of Santa Cruz in open defiance of that country's central government has triggered fears of a chain reaction of separatist movements throughout Latin America....(more)

Harold Meyerson: The next president

We put too much stock in the Oedipal theory of history, my late polymath friend Jim Chapin, the most generous of mentors to historians and journalists, used to argue. More common than children overthrowing their parents, Chapin said, was parents stamping out their children's revolts. More revolutions fail than succeed....(more)

Richard Holbrooke: Washington's battle over Israel's birth

In the celebrations next week surrounding Israel's 60th anniversary, it should not be forgotten that there was an epic struggle in Washington over how to respond to Israel's declaration of independence on May 14, 1948. It led to the most serious disagreement President Harry Truman ever had with his revered secretary of state, George Marshall -- and with most of the foreign policy establishment....(more)

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Thursday, May 8, 2008

• Editorial: 10th Assembly District: It's Sander and Huber

• Editorial: Sac High in perspective

• Daniel Weintraub: Conservative flat tax idea could serve liberal ends

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Freedom is just an empty word

• David Ignatius: The world beyond 2008 campaign

• E.J. Dionne Jr.: Ironies in the Democratic campaign

• Marie Cocco: McCain's Supreme Court picks

• George F. Will: Hillary Clinton: Just too late

• David S. Broder: Democratic campaign is beyond irrelevance

• Correction

• Letters to the editor

• Maureen Dowd: Butterflies aren't free

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

• Editorial: Choice for Bass and Steinberg: Kids or guards?

• Editorial: Cityhood for Arden Arcade gets short shrift

• Peter Schrag: Suspend the federal gas tax? Pander politics redux

• E.J. Dionne Jr.: Presidential battle is an enigma

• Bob Herbert: Real support for the troops

• Eugene Robinson: Beginning of end for Idol?

• Ruben Navarrette: Diversifying journalists

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