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When Kermit the Frog sang, "It's not easy being green," he wasn't thinking about trees. For many of them, it's not only not easy, it's impossible to be green — at least when fall comes along.
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Maybe we've gotten so used to big figures — usually billions, sometimes trillions — that it doesn't register what $25 million in cuts will mean for the Modesto City Schools.
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The facts aren't in dispute. Federal judges for the Eastern District of California, which includes the valley, are the most overworked in the country. Each judge averages 1,004 filings per year. Compare that with the next highest — 821 filings in Minnesota, and the average, 471 for judges in all federal district courts.
The collaborative effort between the Turlock City Council, acting as the Redevelopment Agency, and the Turlock Unified School District to renovate Joe Debely Stadium is a visionary project, a project which will provide an opportunity for two public agencies to work together for the benefit of our entire community in a number of ways which neither agency could currently achieve alone.
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I came across an article in The New York Times several days ago that raised my journalist's hackles. Here's how it started:
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I lived in Patterson for some time before I transferred to Alameda High School during my sophomore year of high school. I wasn't aware that school-based health centers existed until I went there. I was amazed at what services the Alameda Family Services center offered, and wondered why there wasn't something similar at Patterson High. The health center was on campus and served students and ones across the town. Health education, free and confidential medical care, mental health counseling, and youth leadership opportunities are just some of the services that a school based health center can provide. There are 153 school-based health centers in California, four of which are in Stanislaus County.
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When Mac Taylor, the Legislature's chief budget adviser, declared this week that the state budget enacted just four months ago is already billions of dollars upside down, no one in the Capitol should have been surprised.
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After nine years at The Bee, this is my final column as a regular feature on this page. But while I will be leaving the paper's payroll, I hope to be a frequent contributor to the ongoing discussion here about politics and public policy in this troubled state.
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You'd think that Rep. Jim Costa, D-Fresno, would be pleased that his party controls the White House, giving him better access to the executive branch than he had when George W. Bush was president. But Costa seems frustrated that he can't get the ear of the president at a time when his congressional district is suffering as much as any region in the country.
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Dear Sammy Sosa: Are you happy with yourself now? Are you more confident and self-assured? When you look in the mirror, do you like yourself better, now that you are white?
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What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleon, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist statism? London, seat of parliamentary democracy and center of finance? Or perhaps Titusville, Pa.
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It's simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan. The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its qualified blessing to the version of health reform produced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Quinnipiac University poll of a national cross-section of voters reportedits latest results.
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