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Listen up, governor: No new taxes
Californians were all atwitter and perched on the edge of their seats, yearning to learn how Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will fix this massive budget deficit. OK, just kidding. The truth is the state government budget is an amorphous abstraction for...
Now's the time for differential diplomas
If ever there was a time for public school districts around the state to face up to the need for differential diplomas, this is it. No one knows just yet how many of this year’s high school seniors have failed the exit exam that’s been a...
Firms banking on higher power for sales of drinking water
MIAMI – The instructions are simple: Read the Prayer ... / Drink the Water ... / Believe in God! / Believe in Yourself! Spiritual Water, the faith-inspired venture of two Sunrise, Fla., businessmen, offers its drinkers clearer focus, positive thinking...
The state’s going broke? Don’t buy it
Taxpayers increasingly are told that state government is going broke, and vital services must be slashed unless new taxes are imposed. Here’s the truth: Even with falling tax revenue, even in an economic downturn, state government will have more...
Governor’s budget ‘reform’ equivalent to dictatorship
No one involved in any way with California government thinks the state budget process is ideal. There’s the two-thirds vote requirement in each house of the Legislature that allows a relatively small minority to stymie the majority’s plain...
A healthy direction on health insurance
Well, at least the presidential campaign will offer something of a debate on the issue of health care. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama disagree only over whether buying government-approved health insurance will be mandatory for...
Who wants wasted food?
Perhaps lawyers, engineers, state representatives, or radio talk-show hosts should pluck potatoes and cabbage from the field, so food doesn’t rot this year as it did in 2007. Or maybe American teenagers should work farm labor this summer and fall. Perhaps...
To our readers
It’s been nine months since Freedom Communications purchased Tri-County Newspapers (TCN), and it’s time to update you, the readers, on how it’s going and efforts underway to improve your hometown newspaper – the Orland Press-Register. We...
Government workers protected from tolls, tickets
One of the most dangerous trends in a society is when the rulers are exempt from the laws that are enforced on the “subjects.” It not only creates division and resentment, but this situation reduces the natural check on the expansion of police-state...
Government feeling homeowners' pain
Attention will focus again on Sacramento this week as lawmakers continue grappling with the state’s painful $8 billion budget shortfall. But there are hundreds of other sore spots in California’s 58 counties, 478 cities, 1,301 school districts...
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