SPAWNING not-so-surprising criticism, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill last week requiring California public schools include the contributions of gays and lesbians in their social studies curriculum. Some believe the requirement encroaches on a parent's right to shield their children from material they consider inappropriate and teaches acceptance of homosexuality. On the opposite end, Brown signed the bill as an assurance that education remain comprehensive - inclusive of people of various backgrounds and lifestyles.
Presidential, congressional and state legislative elections garnered much of the attention in Wisconsin this year. Democrats swept. More on this later. But other issues continued to bubble despite those electoral distractions. Good. The intent of this Editorial Board's Agenda '08 campaign was to make sure that they did.
It's so long, 2011 IT'S impossible to sum up all the news topics that captured the attention of the editorial pages in 2011. But there were certainly a few topics that energized us - and readers - more than others. Below are some of the most-editorialized local issues of 2011, in no particular order.
Here are a few current topics in no particular order: What's the link between free speech and art? Actually, that should be "free speech" and "art," because both are dubious concepts in this context, but I'm fascinated by the claims being made (in federal court, no less) by the defenders of the Labor Department mural about its status as an icon of constitutional liberties.
... on the topic whose cover featured an editorial I had written defending the state's right-to-know ...
The possible shutdown of the fire station on Oakwood Road and Charleston's controversial user fee were among the topics discussed by candidates meeting with the Daily Mail editorial board Wednesday. Seven of the eight candidates for wards 9, 13, 15 and 20 attended the meeting. Incumbent 9th Ward Councilman Cubert Smith, an independent, did not attend.
Taxes, jobless benefits hot topics Once again the voters have screwed up. We keep putting politicians in office instead of people who will represent us.
Frederick Fuller, Roanoke I am a writer. I have to write. It isn't a matter of "want to," but a daily necessity. Thus, when I was invited to participate in Voices of the Valleys and to write words that could be printed in The Roanoke Times, my first response was, "There is a God." My second response was, "Let's get going." To be given the honor of expressing my opinions on topics supplied by Luanne Rife and the editorial staff made me giddy. To be able to fight over opinions with my peers was better 'n sex. (You have to consider my age!)
Each week, the Friendly Fire bloggers take on the hot topics at www.insidesocal.com/friendlyfire. Below are excerpts from the conversation last week We need tougher gun laws
While writing an editorial years ago on one of the many topics that tend to catch my eye, I decided to quote Confederate Gen. Edward Porter Alexander. In his memoirs, he included a poignant comment about the danger of making mistakes. We can repent and be forgiven of sins, he said, but our mistakes "laugh at repentance and go on piling up consequences." It worked perfectly for the point I was trying to make, and that point had about as much to do with the Civil War as the breakfast you ate this morning.
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