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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Flunked, retained, held back. Whatever you call it, increasing numbers of states are not promoting students who are struggling to read at the end of third grade. Thirty-two states have passed legislation designed to improve third-grade literacy, according to the Education Commission of the States. Retention is part of the policies in 14 [...]
RENO, Nev. — Stewie the Cat, the longest domestic cat in the world at more than 4 feet long from nose to tail, has died. Stewie was surrounded by family when he succumbed to a yearlong battle with cancer Monday evening at his Reno home, owner Robin Hendrickson said Tuesday. He was 8. Guinness World [...]
MENLO PARK — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new search feature on Tuesday in the company’s first staged event at its Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters since its May initial public offering. Called “graph search,” the new service lets users search their social connections for information about people, interests, photos and places. It’ll help users [...]
Allendale Union Chapel VACAVILLE — Worships at 10 a.m. Sunday at 4844 Store Road. Call 469-8437. A New Creation Deliverance Ministries FAIRFIELD — Worships at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at the Courtyard by Marriott, 1350 Holiday Lane. Call 386-9605 or 344-8494. Ark of the Covenant FAIRFIELD — Worships 11 a.m. Sunday at 260 Link Road, Suite [...]
It was announced to our bridge group (my favorite card game) at the Fairfield Senior Center that the city is going to charge non-Fairfield residents – players from Suisun City, Vacaville and elsewhere – $5 per visit. I do not think the individuals who make senior center policy realize how this affects the Fairfield residents. [...]
Our Tuesday editorial, “Latest mass shooting should be the last,” brought plenty of comments from our readers. Here are some comments from our website on the editorial: How about an excise tax on guns, ammo, and other gun-related paraphernalia to be earmarked for mental health services for all Americans in need? That’s a start. Then [...]
Cheers that a fledgling Family Justice Center in Fairfield may soon have a permanent home within a county-owned building on Empire Street. The Family Justice Center serves male and female victims of domestic violence, dating violence, elder abuse, stalking and child abuse. Cheers to the Solano County Board of Supervisors for setting aside the space [...]
On Dec. 17, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church distributed 325 Christmas food bags for those needing food during the holiday season. I want to thank the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano for the food we received for our distribution. Thanks to all of you who contributed to the food bank in the form of [...]
As a member of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, I wish to extend a thank you to the Food Bank, Walmart and Raley’s on North Texas Street for their generous contributions in 2012 to our community. Their assistance and contributions are crucial to fulfill the charitable needs of Fairfield. With Raley’s assistance, St. Mark’s Church food [...]
Let’s face it, politicians give us no hope. This “fiscal cliff” thing is just one example. It was designed last year as a “kick the can down the road” solution to get the debt ceiling raised. What it really does, once our collective memory has forgotten the above, is allow the fall off the cliff [...]
I grapple with the professed anger, outrage and sadness of the tragedy that occurred in Newtown, Conn. President Barack Obama’s prayers are a joke. There are probably more murders of little boys and girls in Newtown every week in the abortion clinics in their mother’s womb than those at Sandy Hook. Where is the anger [...]
Saving our children will save America, our future. When I was 7, my grandma told me that the stars in the sky were all God’s angels in Heaven. God has 20 superstars who will shine forever. This Christmas, I will fast to help deal with the pain. I will not open any gifts. My heart [...]
FAIRFIELD — A Suisun City man was arrested Monday after being accused of posting on a social network site that he supported Friday’s shootings in Connecticut and had thought about committing a similar act. Sergio Cabada, 18, was arrested without incident around 3:30 p.m. after Fairfield Police served a search warrant at his Suisun City [...]
WASHINGTON — While much of Washington is consumed by the debate over tax increases scheduled to take effect next year, big tax hikes have already gone into effect for millions of families and businesses this year. More than 70 tax breaks enjoyed by individuals and businesses expired at the end of 2011. If Congress doesn’t [...]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The military’s small, top-secret version of the space shuttle rocketed into orbit Tuesday for a repeat mystery mission, two years after making the first flight of its kind. The Air Force launched the unmanned spacecraft Tuesday hidden on top of an Atlas V rocket. As if on cue, clouds quickly swallowed [...]
PHOENIX — Authorities in Arizona are looking for an 11-year-old girl with leukemia who is at risk of a deadly infection after her parents inexplicably took her out of a Phoenix hospital last week. The girl, Emily, had been receiving chemotherapy at Phoenix Children’s Hospital for about a month, Phoenix police Sgt. Steve Martos said [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The obscure book’s margins are virtually filled with clusters of curious foreign characters — a mysterious shorthand used by 17th century religious dissident Roger Williams. For centuries the scribbles went undeciphered. But a team of Brown University students has finally cracked the code. Historians call the now-readable writings the most significant addition [...]
AUSTIN, Texas — To 15-year-old Andrea Hernandez, the tracking microchip embedded in her student ID card is a “mark of the beast,” sacrilege to her Christian faith — not to mention how it pinpoints her location, even in the school bathroom. But to her budget-reeling San Antonio school district, those chips carry a potential $1.7 [...]
The Fairfield-Suisun School Board voted Thursday to alter the makeup and boundaries for several schools over the next four years. Here are some comments on an article about a Tuesday meeting to discuss the changes: I guess this is what happens when you close schools without researching the outcome: overcrowded schools, kids being shuttled all [...]
Cheers to personnel at Travis Air Force Base who this week helped move some 450 members of Guam’s Army National Guard, traveling aboard more than a dozen KC-135 aircraft, through the base on their way home from Camp Roberts. This was the largest single transfer ever for the 1st Battalion of the 294th Regiment out [...]
When I open up the newspaper and see yet another insipid column by Mr. Kirchubel, I am seriously tempted to cancel my subscription. Is this the best Fairfield can do for a “columnist?” I suspect there are others out there who feel the same as I do. As usual, I could only get through the [...]
A good sex scandal always has something to teach us. Usually, what we learn in kindergarten: “Keep your hands to yourself.” And the one affecting our top military leaders is no exception. Will we learn that there is no such thing as privacy on the Internet? Apparently not. But the relationship between Jill Kelley, 37, [...]
TOLEDO, Ohio — Caught up in a family disagreement over who should care for three young children, a grandmother and her son barricaded themselves and the kids in a garage and filled it with deadly carbon monoxide gas. All five died. Police spent Tuesday trying to explain the heartbreaking scene discovered a day earlier at [...]
Allendale Union Chapel VACAVILLE — Worships at 10 a.m. Sunday at 4844 Store Road. Call 469-8437. A New Creation Deliverance Ministries FAIRFIELD — Worships at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at the Courtyard by Marriott, 1350 Holiday Lane. Call 386-9605 or 344-8494. Ark of the Covenant FAIRFIELD — Worships 11 a.m. Sunday at 260 Link Road, Suite [...]
Cheers to the Air Force, and specifically to personnel at Travis Air Force Base, for answering the call for help in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Personnel at Travis support missions that go far beyond military operations to include humanitarian efforts worldwide. In this instance, the humanitarian relief is in support of U.S. residents all [...]
As you may have read in this newspaper Thursday, the Central Solano Citizens Taxpayers Group filed a lawsuit against the city of Fairfield’s Measure P. The lawsuit claims Measure P is a special tax, not a general tax. Their claim is not true. The city followed the rules in placing Measure P on the ballot. [...]
On Oct. 28, we learned in an editor’s note that Mike Kirchubel is not employed by the Daily Republic nor is he paid for his columns. I don’t think you’re getting your money’s worth! The next day, Mr. Kirchubel’s weekly offering was his typical tortured rehash of Democratic campaign strategy – throw everything you can [...]
BEIJING — A Chinese government think tank is urging the country’s leaders to start phasing out its one-child policy immediately and allow two children for every family by 2015, a daring proposal to do away with the unpopular policy. Some demographers see the timeline put forward by the China Development Research Foundation as a bold move by [...]
Allendale Union Chapel VACAVILLE — Worships at 10 a.m. Sunday at 4844 Store Road. Call 469-8437. A New Creation Deliverance Ministries FAIRFIELD — Worships at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at the Courtyard by Marriott, 1350 Holiday Lane. Call 386-9605 or 344-8494. Bay North Church of Christ FAIRFIELD — Worships at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday [...]
I had the pleasure this week to watch the Oakland Athletics seek a division series title – from the stands at the Coliseum. It’s been years since I attended a Major League Baseball game, and I’ve never seen an MLB playoff game live. My wife, Jill, had never seen a big league game live, either, [...]
