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CINDY DUNN: Interpreting public art is subjective

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

The Fresno Arts Council, located in the heart of downtown Fresno, is the local partner with the state, county and city of Fresno for the arts. Read comments

PHIL FULLERTON: In defense of trying terrorists in N.Y.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Political attacks on the Obama administration's decision to hold the trial of five terrorists in federal court in New York rather than have a trial before a military tribunal is an assault on the very foundation of our republic: the right to obtain a fair trial for all, even the most despised, and the belief that this will occur. Read comments

GERALD A. ROSANDER: Rethinking our archaic school calendar

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Of the factors that impact educational success in the United States, none is more significant than the massive increase of limited-English speaking immigrants into our schools. Read comments

VINCENT CORRELL: No easy way to get America back to top

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

For at least a hundred years, we Americans have seen ourselves as leaders of the world in science and in the industry that follows. If we want to continue to be among the leaders we are going to have to get our act together. Read comments

SILVIO MANNO: Unfortunate demise of handwriting

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

In today's frantic technological age where electronic media dominates human communication, penmanship seems condemned to die of irrelevance. Yet, the need for explicit teaching of handwriting skills remains as relevant as ever. Read comments

JAMES HIGHSMITH: University mission is discarded

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Look out! A shock wave is hitting California State University. Pleading poverty, California refuses CSU reasonable funding. So CSU Chancellor Charles Reed's administration appears ready to blame the victims and to chuck CSU's mission due to "'funding realities." Read comments

RICK PONCE: Cleaning the right way to be green

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

What is good for the environment is bad for business. What is good for business is bad for the environment. At least those arguments are often heard. Read comments

Bishop Mark W. Holmerud and Bishop John T. Steinbock: Congress must reform health care now

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

By Bishop Mark W. Holmerud and Bishop John T. Steinbock Read comments

Paul Davis: Veterans have earned better care than this

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War, then known as "the Great War." Commemorated as Armistice Day beginning the following year, Nov. 11 became a legal holiday in the United States in 1938. Read comments

RUTH M. GADEBUSCH: Re-evaluate on Veterans Day this year

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:17:07 PDT

Following October's peace demonstrations, November brings us Veterans Day, formerly known as Armistice Day, celebrating the conclusion of the "war to end all wars." Read comments