Ready to shudder? Listen to the likes of CNN’s Lou Dobbs, who tells us that "elites" in this country "are waging an outright war on working men, women and their families, and there is no chance the American middle class will survive this assault if the dominant forces unleashed over the past five years continue unchecked."
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It’s not that we expect much from California’s Legislature. Come to think of it, a long holiday from the intense political activity that characterized the final days of the last session might actually be welcome. Think of it: You could plan your life without looking over your shoulder.
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California’s roadways have been much neglected in the past three decades. The neglect is largely deliberate, stemming from the coercive notion that more traffic congestion will yield such frustration-induced enlightenment that motorists will cheerfully abandon their vehicles and board public transit.
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There might well be a serious argument to be made that public financing of political campaigns would be an improvement over today’s big contributor-driven system. Too bad Proposition 89 is not it.This convoluted, 55-page initiative was moved onto the ballot by the California Nurses Association and a trial lawyer front group. It would be a pipe dream for political reform and a veritable fountainhead of unintended consequences.
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Let’s be serious. In order to get cleaner fuels and domesticate the animalistic behavior of the oil companies, you cannot do it by rolling up a newspaper and swatting those companies. Nor can you do it by persuading a majority of California’s voters to mark their ballots as if to say: "Hesto presto, clean air!"
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Let’s be serious. In order to get cleaner fuels and domesticate the animalistic behavior of the oil companies, you cannot do it by rolling up a newspaper and swatting those companies. Nor can you do it by persuading a majority of California’s voters to mark their ballots as if to say: "Hesto presto, clean air!"
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Fourteen years ago, Dianne Feinstein could have left public service at what others would have considered a pinnacle. As an accomplished San Francisco supervisor and mayor, in times that required sure-handed crisis management, she had nonetheless failed in her bid to become California’s governor. The private life surely looked sweet.
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A federal judge has indicated she will not grant the San Francisco Unified School District an extension to finish the first round of disability access improvements required under a 2004 legal settlement. Known as the Lopez case, the district settled the class-action lawsuit by agreeing to a rigid timeline to modernize nearly 100 of its facilities to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Especially now, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina’s unprecedented destructiveness, Californians tend to be dismayed when they first learn about the state’s flood control levees. Many of them — particularly those around the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta — are more than 100 years old and made from compacted earth.
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North Korea brags wickedly that it has tested a nuclear bomb and elsewhere in the world, still other ominous events collaborate in pointing the mind toward the poet William Butler Yeats and his much-quoted but ever-powerful, enduring lines in "The Second Coming.""Things fall apart; the center cannot hold," he wrote, and the words seem apt as we think of a world that knows so little order that North Korea’s murderous, Stalinist regime willfully ignores the near-universal plea that it put aside the birthing of this death device.
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