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Global auto industry: Let’s play small ball

Opinion: In baseball, it’s called “small ball” when a team emphasizes speed and strategies such as sacrifice


67 years later, we’re back

67 years later, we’re back Scripps Howard News Service: Another chapter of World War II will close


Selling long-term assets doesn’t show fiscal discipline

Editorial: Selling long-term assets doesn’t show fiscal discipline In cash-strapped times, states appear to


Taft center places Valley in the global high-tech arena

Editorial: Taft center places Valley in the global high-tech arena The $5.8 million Taft Technology Center on


There is one more reason to require girls to take PE

Opinion: San Jose Mercury News: One-third of California’s adolescents don’t exercise enough. Nearly 10


OMG, KMN before my head Asplodes

Opinion: Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between a person LOLing and crying — but I am definitely


McCain’s position on Hamas hypocritical

Opinion: If the recent exchanges between President Bush, Barack Obama and John McCain on Hamas and terrorism


Democratic Party starting to wonder if Hillary Clinton is really 'In it to win it'

Opinion: NEW YORK — The Democratic Party is starting to wonder if Hillary Clinton is really “in it to win it”


Chavez, Correa put on the spot by Interpol

Opinion: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Ecuadorean counterpart Rafael Correa can scream and yell as


Clinton needs to make swift, graceful exit

Opinion: WASHINGTON — In the wake of her trouncing in North Carolina and her skin-of-the-teeth win in


Here are top 8 myths about gas prices

Opinion: For those confused by the political rhetoric and demagoguery blurring our understanding of gas


Childhood should not be a long, hard slog

Opinion: Can you forgive her? In March, Lenore Skenazy, a New York City mother, gave her 9-year-old son,


World News Digest: Two terrible natural disasters have affected two neighboring countries

BRITAIN The Times, London, May 14: Two terrible natural disasters have affected two neighboring


Independents split on presidential choice

Opinion: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Polls indicate Barack Obama has a good chance to become the next president,


Friends don’t let friends drive when they are addicted to oil

Editorial: Friends don’t let friends drive when they are addicted to oil Who says Saudi Arabia isn’t a firm