Jack Batson recently wrote an article about “Another crusade for education reform.†His theme? We have been trying to reform education since the 1970s with no significant improvement. His reasoning seems to be, “that’s just the way it is.†Well Jack, you have your blinders on. Like the rest of the public education bureaucracy, you [...]
One of the best investments Solano County has made during the last year has been funding Sheriff Deputy Jim McCants’ job. During these difficult economic times, spending $150,000 on a county program seems like a pretty expensive proposition. That is until you notice the shrinking volume of unwanted trash along our rural roadways. McCants is [...]
Why is it every time I hear about another government program that is supposed to rescue the American people from disaster or make life sweeter for all of us, I think of a line from several old Laurel and Hardy movies? It was always delivered by Oliver Hardy to his sidekick, Stan Laurel. “Well, here’s [...]
Associated Press Writer KABUL — The number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan has roughly doubled in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period last year as Washington has added tens of thousands of additional soldiers to reverse the Taliban’s momentum. Those deaths have been accompanied by a dramatic spike in [...]
Associated Press Writer KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Suleiman Baraka’s journey could be measured in light years: the eldest of 14 children of a butcher, he rose from humble beginnings in violence-wracked Gaza to become an astrophysicist, space weather expert and researcher for NASA, the U.S. space agency. Now, at 45, he is back home [...]
Associated Press Writers BAENGNYEONG ISLAND, South Korea — Weeping, angry relatives of 46 crew members missing after a mysterious explosion sank a South Korean navy ship sailed around the site today as rescue teams took to the air and sea still hoping to find survivors. None have been found since an initial rescue of 58 [...]
Associated Press Writer ESCONDIDO — More than 1,000 people paid tribute Saturday to a 14-year-old girl whose remains were found more than a year after she disappeared walking to school. Her father urged anyone who cried for her to demand a crackdown on child predators. Amber Dubois was a voracious reader with a fertile imagination [...]
The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Fed up with waiting, President Barack Obama announced Saturday he would bypass a vacationing Senate and name 15 people to key administration jobs, wielding for the first time the blunt political tool known as the recess appointment. The move immediately deepened the divide between the Democratic president and Republicans in [...]
Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON — Doubted and deeply in need of a comeback, President Barack Obama had a political dream week: a historic remaking of America’s health care system, a vast overhaul of how students pay for college and a groundbreaking deal with Russia to shrink nuclear arsenals. The biggest foreign and domestic policy victories [...]
HOUSTON — Former first lady Barbara Bush was hospitalized Saturday in Houston to undergo routine tests but doctors don’t suspect anything serious, a family spokeswoman said. Bush, 84, was being treated at Methodist Hospital and should be released in a day or two, spokeswoman Jean Becker said late Saturday. “She hasn’t been feeling well for [...]
Associated Press Writer SAN DIEGO — The California family of an Iraqi-American contractor said to have been kidnapped in Baghdad is rejoicing over his release. The family of 60-year-old Issa Salomi told the Associated Press in San Diego on Saturday that they had spoken to him on Friday, but the Pentagon asked them to keep [...]
Associated Press Writer NEW YORK — A listing crane struck the side of a 25-story building near Wall Street on Saturday, sending debris cascading to the ground, disrupting traffic and leading to evacuations at five buildings. There were no injuries reported after the crane hit a ledge near the top of the mixed-use building on [...]
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