| | | No differenceOf course Hans Reiser should be given a brake on his sentence for showing authorities where he buried his wife. What difference does it make?
The same-sex marriage issue will not be resolved by the recent court decision or by the future constitutional amendment ballot issue. The solution is for the Legislature to delegitimize the use of the word "marriage" to define the legal relationship involving two individuals and government.
"U.S. ECONOMY GOING HAYWIRE" was a featured quote, in large print, on the front page of the Times, on July 16. Although none of us would contest the point that we face complex economic challenges in the present environment, I object to the featuring of such an alarmist inaccurate, vernacular
No differenceOf course Hans Reiser should be given a brake on his sentence for showing authorities where he buried his wife. What difference does it make?
My partner and I (we are both men) were on a BART train when a teenage couple sat down in front of us. The young man began to spout off to his girlfriend about another young man he saw on the train platform using a whole list of epithets relating to sexual orientation.
Albany residents, please oppose the City Council's attempt to repeal our election campaign finance agreement at its Monday meeting.Since 1996, the majority of candidates have abided by the agreement and spent well under the $6,000 allowed by the agreement.
Whatever software manages Diablo Valley College's grades database, a simple solution will protect against future grade scandals. Every night, or every week, back up the grade data for the professor's and student's Ids, the class and quarter it was given and the grade received.
My wife and I will celebrate our 45th wedding anniversary and we consider ourselves very fortunate. The institution of marriage is definitely threatened, but not by gay marriages.
We own a Honda Civic hybrid that we bought about two years ago. We recently took a trip that covered 2,000 miles. We averaged just under 46 miles per gallon on the trip.
It is bad enough President Bush dragged this country into a war of choice, which has left Americans less secure than we were before 9/11. Now, the president continues to rattle his saber at Iran.
No wayAbsolutely not! The current big push for offshore drilling is nothing more than oil companies and their congressional slaves trying to prolong oil dependency and profits.
My wife and I will celebrate our 45th wedding anniversary June 29, and we consider ourselves very fortunate. The institution of marriage is definitely threatened, but not by gay marriages.
A recent letter to the Times applauds the elimination of religious influence on state marriage laws. I agree. Since the Supreme Court has removed the religious influence on our state marriage laws, it's time to progress further.
The city of Concord is playing the shell game again, hoping that if it maneuvers things just the right way it can get what it wants at the expense of the rest of us.
As executive director of the Contra Costa College Foundation, I share Steve Butler's hope that the estate tax will return in 2010, as he discussed in his June 23 Times Money Matters column.
Our governor has declared that California is in a state of emergency due to numerous fires caused by all the lighting flashes sparking wildfires that we do not have enough trained manpower to handle.
Marginalized county residents needn't languish on "helpful" programs.Nearby, San Pablo's good, low-cost Contra Costa College is a step into college, although most careers demand education beyond associate level, as offered at this community college.
"To those who scare the peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this. Your tactics only aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve.
The air is full of smoke.Dublin is selling fireworks.Friends with asthma are at the emergency roomDublin is selling fireworks.Drought, drought, droughtDublin is selling fireworks.
I am at a loss to understand what goes into getting efficiency from an automobile and why the blame is always placed on consumers.Less than 10 years ago, one could purchase at least two Honda models that got better than 50 mpg (Civic CX and CRX).
The high cost of gasoline and other oil based products has the public calling for "HELP!" They want more drilling for oil, building more refineries and would you believe, atomic power plants. Where is the outrage from the greenies?
I am at a loss to understand what goes into getting efficiency from an automobile -- and why the blame is always placed on consumers.
Our freeways were designed for rapid private car travel and are now far over capacity.HOV lanes, etc., are only expensive Band-Aids and won't help much.
This is a very bad money shortage crisis and could take many weeks for the liberal vs. conservative wings to wrangle and compromise.Their is no "late" penalty that I can recall because the Assembly and Senate are not inclined to vote sanctions against themselves for tardiness.
I strongly encourage voters in the West Contra Costa school district to continue their support of the parcel tax in November.While the Times' June 10 editorial questioned the school district's ability to manage its finances, it neglected to point out that for the life of the current parcel tax,
We are not seeing politics, we are seeing theatrics. There is only one political party on the face of the earth, The Corporacracy.
Why do Barack Obama and the Democrats think decimating American oil companies through windfall profits taxes would somehow help America? That tax won't solve America's energy problems.
Contrary to the Times' June 9 editorial, California's Proposition 13 of 1978 has been a disaster for the state.Prop. 13 granted relief to owners of commercial real estate and to long-time residential owners, due to the annual 2 percent tax cap, but it imposed extra burdens on others.
The Supreme Court ruling granting to enemy combatants the same habeas corpus rights enjoyed by American citizens appears to be an unfortunate aberration from past precedent, abandoning the principle of stare decisis.
This is in response to the letter written by Mr. James Jobb (published 06-18-08) wherein he feels President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should be impeached for failing to prevent the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks of 09-11-01.
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