OUR VIEW
We need tough love; Prop. 5 is too soft
There are so many flaws in Proposition 5 that it's hard to know where to start. Under the guise of reducing state prison costs and providing more drug rehabilitation programs -- both worthy goals -- this initiative would:
Veterans deserve 'yes' vote on Prop. 12 housing aid
A few years after the doughboys returned home from World War I, California voters approved the sale of bonds to help them buy houses and farms. Since that first bond measure passed in 1921, Californians have approved about $8.4 billion in Cal-Vet bonds for the state Department of Veterans Affairs. The bonds have benefited thousands of members of the armed forces who served in both world wars, Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf region and elsewhere.
Letters to the Editor
- Riley for college district board
- Shame on the public's shallowness
- Better impressed by running mates
- Palin's not fit to be vice president
- Seniors' credit wrong thing to veto
- Riverbank, keep Mayor Crifasi around
- Modesto has chance to get greener
- Journalists being deceptive
- Re-elect Ferral for Ripon school board
- Dumb it down a little, governor
- McCain, Palin are playing games
- They took the gamble, but we lose
- Feds' interference caused problem
- Robbing from poor, giving to rich
- Don't believe the election rhetoric
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