Editorials

More than 1,200 people came to Modesto Centre Plaza to confront the State Water Resources Control Board in 2016. Now the venue has moved to the state capitol.

Editorials

Go to the rally, but keep politics out

Battle for region’s water rights, and the region’s agricultural economy, moves to Sacramento on Monday

Editorials

Trump must end his war on journalists

When he attacks newspapers, Trump is attacking our freedom of speech and our right to speak truth to power

Sonny Perdue, US Ag Secretary, center, with Reps. Jeff Denham, left, and Jim Costa, answers a question during a press conferences after Perdue’s town hall meeting at the World Ag Expo.

President Donald Trump’s trade war with China is already costing agriculture in the Central Valley and across California. His relief plan for farmers appears to favor crops grown in red states, not the fruits, nuts, vegetables and wine grown in California. Even Republicans think that’s unfair.

Opinion

Editorial: Lieutenant governor candidate came to Modesto. Not to talk, but to listen.

Eleni Kounalakis came to Modesto this week. She wanted to know about the fight to keep our water, homeless solutions and our colleges.

A firefighter runs while trying to save a home as a wildfire tears through Lakeport on July 31. The Mendocino Complex Fire has become the California’s largest blaze in recorded history.

Editorials

The stress of fighting fires can be deadly

The longer and more destructive wildfire season is taking an increasing toll on firefighters and their families. It’s good that Cal Fire is trying to get out ahead of this potential crisis to deter suicides, substance abuse and domestic violence.

Sarah Sanchez, left, waits for her number to be called at the DMV in Sacramento, Thursday, June 14, 2018. The original numbering system has been replaced and a new system is being used in Sacramento.

Editorials

No good excuse for DMV lines this long

Something has gone badly wrong at DMV, where wait times have increased dramatically. An audit would be a good start to find out why. The Joint Legislative Audit Committee should approve the request when it meets Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018.

Some 1,200 rResidents of the Modesto area came to Modesto Centre Plaza to testify to the damage that will be done by the State Water Resources Control Board demands for more environmental flows on the San Joaquin River tributaries. Few of their concerns were addressed and the board’s demand were not altered.

Opinion

Mike Dunbar: Counting casualties as state weaponizes ‘combat science’

Up in Sacramento, they call it “combat science.” Most forms of combat leave casualties behind. If the State Water Resources Control Board gets its way, we are those casualties.

Opinion

Awkward! Denham, Harder work the same room without even saying ‘Hi’

Both candidates for Congress showed up at the opening of the Girls Scouts new STEM Center; but neither acknowledge the other was there. We invite them to have a conversation at The Bee

Construction crews repair state highway 120 near Yosemite last year after winter storms saturated the ground beneath and caused portions of the road to collapse. Proposition 6 would result in delays in such repairs.

Opinion

Passing Prop 6 will cost us more than a few extra pennies at the pump

The Northern San Joaquin Valley will lose extension of the ACE train, the Campus Parkway to UC Merced and much more if gas-tax repeal passes

Protestors gather outside the White House hours after President Donald Trump’s summit meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.

Editorials

Dark truth emerges from Trump’s Helsinki spin

When lights go out on Trump, he immediately blames the intelligence agencies. Even if he was joking, it shows what he think about America’s defenders

This Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017 image shows s white supremacist carrying a NAZI flag into the entrance to Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Editorials

What is driving spike in California hate crimes? Our national tone

With President Donald Trump leading the chorus of incivility and insult, hate crime in California spiked more than 17 percent between 2016 and 2017. It reflects the state after Proposition 187’s 1994 passage.

Editorials

What Gavin Newsom said – and didn’t say – during his visit Monday in Modesto

Gavin Newsom came to Modesto on Monday night to shake hands and meet important people.

Brett Kavanaugh, U.S. Supreme Court associate justice nominee for President Donald Trump, walks through the U.S. Capitol.

Editorials

His views on guns are key to our view of Judge Kavanaugh

Brett Kavanaugh’s dissent on owning semi-automatic weapons is troubling and must be fully explained

A worker walks past clocks being tested prior to shipping at the Electric Time Co. in Medfield, Mass.

Editorials

Waste of time to scrap daylight saving time

Assemblyman Kansen Chu's AB 807 would start the process of eliminating daylight saving time in California. The sleep Californians lose from changing the clock is a problem, but bigger problems await without it.

In a photo taken Wednesday, two young girls watch a World Cup soccer match on a television from their holding area where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being held in Nogales, Ariz.

Editorials

Taking children from parents is immoral

His “zero tolerance” policy has taken 2,000 small children from their parents. As a nation, as compassionate people, we must not allow this in our name

President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un of North Korea depart after a document-signing ceremony on Sentosa Island in Singapore.

Editorials

What matters in Trump’s Korea summit

Meeting Kim face-to-face was not the wrong thing to do for Trump. Praising him and promising to end defensive drills in South Korea was.

California, which has some of the nation’s lowest suicide rates, also has some of the nation’s toughest gun laws. Gun owners, for instance, must undergo background checks before buying ammunition, and authorities can temporarily seize the firearms of those deemed a danger to themselves or others.

Editorials

Lower suicide rate, stricter gun control

A CDC report released Thursday, June 7, 2018, found that suicide rates rose 25 percent nationally and by more than 30 percent in some states. California’s increase was among the nation’s lowest. Half of all suicides are committed with guns, which this state controls.

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