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Bee Editorials
As we near the midpoint of this leap year month of holidays galore, we offer our own tributes, in the form of — what else — but a heaping handful of Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down, courtesy of the past week's headlines.
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Bee Editorials
We don't think Modesto Junior College, one of the oldest community colleges in the state and a mainstay of our community, is at risk of losing its accreditation. But we are concerned that for the second time in four years, the accrediting commission of Western Association of Schools and Colleges has put a red flag on its status.
The Accrediting Commission of Community and Junior Colleges, which is a part of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, has recently delivered a letter to us regarding Modesto Junior College's accreditation status. The letter states that MJC is on probation and outlines what steps the college should take to change its status. By addressing the report up front, we hope to clarify what this does — and does not — mean.
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New districts with new numbers. A new primary format. And a lot of new names. I'm predicting many citizens will have a difficult time figuring out who is running for what in the primary.
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As students at the University of California at Merced, we are compelled to plead the case for high-speed rail. Our generation will be paying for this project, and we are the ones who will be riding it. Our message: "I will ride."
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Redevelopment is dead after more than six decades as a multibillion-dollar government economic development tool.
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Here's more evidence that we need a part-time Legislature in California: It took lawmakers almost six months to come up with a phony budget, which Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed within hours of its passage. Part-timers couldn't have done any worse, and likely would have solved the problem.
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Unless you're steeped in Idaho politics, you've probably never heard of Frank VanderSloot. But the wealthy Republican businessman and people like him around the country are wielding outsized influence on the 2012 presidential election.
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Republicans, Democrats, the tea party and the Occupy movement — it seems every American from 1 to 99 has their own favorite plan on how to tackle taxes and federal spending. Assuming there's room for one more plan, I've borrowed bits and pieces from the current debate, but — urged on by the political commentariat and citizen-pundits alike — I've gone big and bold.
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WASHINGTON — Recent provocations by Egypt are both serious and mysterious.
In December, its government conducted a series of armed raids on respected human rights and democracy organizations. Egyptian courts are pursuing transparently fraudulent prosecutions against several dozen employees of those groups, including 19 Americans. Six American citizens are being kept in Egypt against their will. One is Sam LaHood, the son of the secretary of transportation. -
On the campaign trail, presidential candidate Barack Obama once called for a "reset" policy with Iran. Supposedly, the unpopularity of the Texan provocateur George W. Bush and his administration's inability to finesse "soft power" had needlessly alienated the Iranian theocracy.
