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New Deal: An example for today?
As a Berkeley professor researched FDR’s New Deal projects, he realized how they were responsible for remaking much of the face of America. A tall ship passes under the Tower Bridge. Frederick N. Evans...
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The question we posed to readers: With high unemployment and millions of people struggling to get by, is the American public today willing to support the sort of nationwide works programs created...
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Can cycling overcome its credibility issue?
Tejay van Garderen has a dubious responsibility to the sport of cycling that he’d rather not have. With a few other U.S. cyclists, he carries the burden of a sport seeking to restore its image. Tejay...
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The Conversation: Stark differences widen health gap
A look at Placer and Yuba counties sheds some light on how stark these differences can be and how difficult they will be to overcome.
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The question we posed to readers: How is your health affected by where you live?
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The Conversation: Anecdote of Toyota relocation of jobs to Texas misses the...
The Toyota relocation of some employees is just an anecdote and does not paint a full picture of what is happening economically in California – thus, it is unlikely to point to a cure for what ails the...
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The question we posed to readers: What are the top three things the Legislature could do to attract more business to California?
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The Conversation: A controversial water transfer worth millions
How could one person or, in this case two, stick straws in the ground, suck up an increasingly precious resource, and then sell it at fabulous profit to non-locals? Merced County resident Rose Marie...
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The Conversation: Outcry to change society’s view of women
Cultural change comes slowly, but it can be fueled by frank conversation and shared understanding. Joyce Terhaar UC Santa Barbara students attend a memorial service Tuesday for six people slain by a...
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The Conversation: Water conservation efforts aren’t taking hold, but...
We’re not conserving. Wildlife is suffering. But there are some encouraging signs amid the drought. Jay Ziegler of the Nature Conservancy
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Last Sunday’s Conversation about the discussion on the water bond asked the question: Given the drought, are you more or less supportive of a water bond, and how important is it that the bond include...
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The Conversation: America’s international broadcasters are losing the...
Congress is taking baby steps to catch up with China and Russia, which are investing heavily in the information war.
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The Conversation: When Crisis Intervention Team training does not work in...
National studies indicate that Crisis Intervention Training programs have resulted in improvements in attitudes about mental illness among police officers. Joe Livernois is the former executive editor...
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Editorial: Immigrant children deserve our compassion, not jeers and taunts
There is only one correct way to view the estimated 52,000 unaccompanied minors who have streamed through the United States-Mexico border over the past year and who are now crowding federal detention...
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Mariel Garza: 90 years after last bear was killed in California: The return...
More than 90 years after the last California grizzly bear was killed in the state, theres an effort to return them to their ancestral homelands. A grizzly bear moves through the brush in Yellowstone...
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The Conversation: Dissecting a ‘no party preference’ campaign...
Two seasoned California campaign strategists, one a Republican and one a Democrat, who advised a “no party prefence” candidate running for secretary of state, discuss the campaign. Dan Schnur took...
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Dan Morain: Attorney helps sound the death knell for capital punishment
When the death penalty in California is fully put out of its misery, Michael Laurence will be among its chief executioners. Robert Alton Harris was executed in April 1992. One of his lawyers, Michael...
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Views on Food: Dealing with the drought and rising food prices
Regardless of the cause or whether youre buying food from California, its easy to see that prices are going up. A recent report from the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences predicts relatively...
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Editorial: HPV vaccinations can save kids from misery and death
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local physicians agree that HPV vaccination rates, whatever they are, are unacceptably low. The rates of human papillomavirus vaccinations are...
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The Conversation: On a mission to get bikes off sidewalks
After being injured, I was on a mission to find out how the law deals with bicycles on sidewalks and to make it safer for pedestrians. The number of bikes on sidewalks in Washington, D.C., dropped 27...
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