Excuse me for not being more alarmed by your recent editorial, "Students Deserve All the Facts," but I'm having a really hard time getting over Planned Parenthood's . You see, when I entered the teaching profession as a student teacher back in 1997, Planned Parenthood paid a visit to my 10th- grade world history class at North Torrance High School and I found their version of sex education "alarming." It began with some role playing. The woman from Planned Parenthood told my 10th-graders to imagine they were at a party at someone's house and no parents were home. You are drunk. Your partner and you slip into an empty bedroom and have sex. Later, the two of you discover you have a pregnancy on your hands. She then asked them to role play what they would do.
Last month there was an election in Tillamook County. Voters were asked to consider a property tax levy that would have provided additional funding for county roads and bridges. The measure failed, though by a narrow margin. Now the county's director of public works is facing some difficult alternatives. These alternatives include turning roads from asphalt to gravel and dealing with the shutdown of county roads.
CREDIBILITY GAP, U.S.A. -- "Folks, this is a public service warning: Your EZ Pass won't help in this notorious bottleneck today -- or maybe all summer. It's much too congested. The traffic buildup is of historic proportions.
These players in the Bush administration have orchestrated a war on what we now know is a lie, continue to advocate it through the politics of fear, issued more sole source contracts that any administration ever, shot people and waited a day to report it, outted CIA agents, lost the Congress, politicized the court system and now have politicized the justice system with revelations that Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, not only fired eleven Assistant U.S. District Attorneys for not being aggressive (read "political") enough but also sought to politicize immigration judge appointments. There is nothing these guys can't do wrong-even though all of it is wrong. But now the public finds out that the "you're one of us or you're a despised liberal" conserva-tron mentality is even pervasive ...
THE GROWING RUMOR THAT MAYOR BLOOMBERG WAS POISED TO MAKE A BRAZEN BID TO DUMP THE CITY'S TERM-LIMITS LAW IN ORDER TO WIN A THIRD TERM. Mike Bloomberg may well escape paying the ultimate political price for manipulating a selfserving City Council into passing a law that gave itself and the mayor an extra term- despite two previous referendum votes against it New Yorkers are still angry about that, but not angry enough to vote out a sitting mayor- that is, until Bill Thompson comes up with solid arguments to convince them otherwise. There's nothing wrong with seeking the backing of the powerful county leader, but you're not supposed to drop directly into his pocket This summer, Yassky told a group fighting to win more low-income housing in an undeveloped corner of Williamsburg and Bush...
Ever since the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued its Mid-Session Review last month, the administration has been doing cartwheels celebrating the fact that the budget deficit for fiscal 2006, which ends on Sept. 30, will be less than $300 billion. After the administration projected a 2006 deficit of $296 billion last month, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently estimated that the 2006 deficit would be $260 billion. Compared to recent deficits of $377 billion (2003), $413 billion (2004) and $318 billion (2005), a deficit of $260 billion does represent some improvement. But it is improvement based on a pitiful standard. As recently as 2000, the federal government ran a budget surplus of $236 billion. Also keep in mind that fiscal 2006 represents the fifth ye...
The Department of Water and Power faces big challenges maintaining its aging infrastructure and trying to regain credibility with the public, agency officials told a citizens committee Wednesday. The panel that is tasked with hiring a new watchdog ratepayer advocate for the DWP heard from utility executives who spelled out the challenges they face over the coming years.
When President Obama bowed to Republican pressure earlier this month and proposed a two-year freeze on federal civilian workers' wages, we agreed that at a time when stagnant wages and even pay cuts are common in the private sector, the federal workforce should not be immune. Hard times call for shared sacrifice. But not for everyone, it seems.
MORGANTOWN - You know, I've been wrong before, so you might be ill-advised to take this as a proclamation that the rough spots are behind us. In fact, anyone who thinks this won't get even messier is probably naive. But I still can't help but believe that, in light of the correspondence between the two sides uncovered this week, Rich Rodriguez's chances of wiggling out of any substantial part of his $4 million buyout with West Virginia are dead.
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