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Show your support for the NAACP

Opinion: The fall season is usually the time when the area’s minority-rights advocacy groups have their major


American beauties

American beauties Chicago Tribune: “One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made.


Congress must go after big business

Opinion: We are the Yes Men, two guys who dress up as powerful businessmen, propose horrible things to


Gandhi’s message has relevance today

Opinion: It’s Mahatma Gandhi’s 140th birthday today, and his spirit of nonviolence lives on around the world,


‘Twilight Zone’: The show that won’t die

Opinion: PHOENIX, N.Y. — “I sat home and watched the ‘Twilight Zone’ marathon on cable TV.” So admitted one


Fair trade push by Obama inevitable

Opinion: In a Sept. 24 column, George Will accused President Barack Obama of caving in to fellow Democrats’


Illegal workers lose jobs at unique American company

Editorial: illegal workers lose jobs at unique American company A drama that is playing out at American


Economic crisis bad news for Strickland

Opinion: Since taking office in January 2007, Gov. Ted Strickland has seen a significant downturn in the


Heat on the U.S. Chamber

Heat on the U.S. Chamber Sacramento Bee: On the issue of climate change, PG&E — the massive,


Global warming warnings are hollow

Opinion: “Plateau in Temperatures Adds Difficulty to Task Of Reaching a Solution” — New York Times,


Lehman failure spurs recovery efforts

Opinion: The second-guessing started almost as soon as Lehman Brothers, a 158-year-old Wall Street


The world order according to Beck is a danger to the political right

Opinion: You can say this for Glenn Beck: He’s charismatic, he was right on ACORN and Van Jones, and he’s


Happy fiscal new year? Don’t bet on it

Opinion: It’s a new year and we have a problem. Oct. 1 marks the beginning of the new fiscal year, and


Warren’s new police chief sworn in amid controversy

Editorial: Try as he may, Chief Tim Bowers of the Warren Police Department won’t be able to start with a clean


Beck and others like him are filling a leadership void in the country

Opinion: “They would not listen, they’re not listening still, “Perhaps they never will.” — Don McLean,