Date Archive: 08-16-2013

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Speak out

President Hon. Barack Obama, The White House, Washington, D.C., 20502; 202-456-1111; email: [email protected] U.S. Senate Sen. Barbara Boxer, 112 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3553; email: visit http://boxer.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; email: visit http://feinstein.senate.gov/email.html House of Representatives Rep. John Garamendi (3rd District), 2438 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, […]

Is it jail, or a hotel?

Please, please stop using this term of “lodging” arrestees. It doesn’t work or make sense unless they’re paying their own way. Are they? No, I don’t think so. (See below.) They’re not treated as guests nor worth consideration of the term of “lodged at the…” such-and-such jail. No other newspaper in this vicinity uses this […]

Summer is for learning

The issue: Innovative new programs gain popularity, but don’t tell the students this is school The United States seems to be moving inexorably toward a year-round school year, much like the foreign countries that continually outperform us in math and science studies. FOR A LONG TIME, “summer school” had an unfortunate connotation. The students who […]

Tom Meyer cartoon

AIM: too big or too small?

By Deborah Nichols Poulos Objections to the Davis Joint Unified School District’s selection process for the intellectually gifted program, AIM, have caused those of us who support it to come to its defense. Reasonable debate is important to understanding issues. Unfortunately, in this instance we don’t really know the basis for these objections. If objections are […]

Treat each case individually

I’d just like to weigh in quickly on the subject of equal treatment under the law. I’m currently serving eight years for stealing a bottle of whiskey. My bail before trial was more than $100,000. Forget that this is a shoplifting case, and that I’ll be serving time locally (in Woodland, at the county jail) […]

Let’s clean up our rural roads

I like to ride my bike out to the Pedrick Road farm stall via Old Davis and Tremont roads, and I have been appalled at the amount of trash along the sides of the road. I decided to clean it up and have achieved cleanup on both sides most of the way. (If not me, […]