Date Archive: 05-30-2013

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For the record

A headline on Catherine Keller’s letter published Wednesday was erroneous. Of course, she meant “Bimonthly billing is just fine” with regard to her city utility bills. We regret the error.

Immigration bill a promising sign

The issue: Full Senate action would show that our legislative system works as intended if given the chance “Miracle” is perhaps too strong a word, but it is a major marvel that in the current poisonous, take-no-prisoners atmosphere of Washington, the Senate Judiciary Committee produced a complicated — 800-plus pages — and comprehensive overhaul of […]

Scrutinize gifted ID process

By Karen Hamilton A recent Enterprise opinion piece criticizing the district’s adoption of a lottery process to fill seats in its self-contained elementary gifted classes makes a large issue out of a small or nonexistent problem. Under the lottery process, the 15-student wait list is about the same length as it was under the rank-ordered […]

Tom Meyer cartoon

We back immigration reform

The West Yolo Democratic Club issued the following position on immigration practices in the United States. This position will be sent to President Obama, congressional representatives and U.S. senators. The West Yolo Democratic Club, representing primarily Winters residents, takes a strong stand to keep Mexican immigrants with their families here in the United States, to […]