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Great women's conference
I attended the Central California Women’s Conference on Sept. 15 for the first time and I really enjoyed it. The support from the Fresno community was amazing.
I would like to thank all of the sponsors who helped to make the conference possible: ABC Channel 30, The Fresno Bee, Union Bank, Comcast, all of the corporate and nonprofit sponsors, and the Fresno Police Department for helping to make this event possible for the women of Central California!
Caitlin Layton
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Bailout for our health
While banks and corporations get bailouts with our tax dollars, we get diseases and no support. The pollution of air and water is caused by the processes and products that are full of toxins and due to the use of chemicals detrimental to our health. It only stands to reason that we should have a single-payer program to help us keep well.
Here in Fresno, three out of five children are asthmatic due to the pollution. This is not just or fair. Let us benefit from some of our tax dollars, please.
Lydia Flores
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Multiple investigations
In the diversion of donor funds at California State University, Fresno, from academics to athletics, in order to know how long the diversion has gone on, how much is involved and who is responsible, it would be helpful to have an independent audit. Then the academic community and the general community will know what should be done.
Traditionally, the administration at Fresno State holds that the books of the foundation, a private corporation, cannot be opened to the public. But funds were mishandled once before and the books were opened so that the academic community and public could know what had been done. The amount in this case is far greater, perhaps more than a million dollars.
When a state corporation mishandles funds, the State Bureau of Corporations has an interest to investigate. This mishandling admittedly damaged academic departments, so the University Academic Senate has a role to play. That a state corporation should mishandle funds should be a matter for the attorney general.
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Access to money
Whether you are a Republican, a Democrat, a Green or think all the parties are pretty useless, you should take issue with The Bee's recommendation to vote "no" on Proposition 89. As things stand now, elections are determined by whomever has access to the big money. Until we have public financing of elections, as provided for by Proposition 89, someone, even a "corporate person" with more money than you or I have, will determine who gets elected to office.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 89. After that, we Republicans, Democrats, Greens and whatever can get back to arguing politics in a democratic manner. Until then, there's not much point talking because we aren't really electing.
Corporations might not like the fact that this measure would be financed by corporate taxes, but the corporations get their money from all of us, so they might as well benefit us and our democracy once in a while.
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Inmate booked in '79 slaying of Fresno child
A San Quentin inmate serving a life sentence for two Fowler homicides has been arrested in the cold-case murder of Victoria Ann DeSantiago, an 8-year-old who was kidnapped, raped and slain in 1979.
Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer said improved DNA technology enabled detectives to link Fernando Eros Caro to the case, and prosecutors will likely seek the death penalty. Caro, 59, also will be prosecuted on charges of killing two teens in Bakersfield, he added.
Victoria and her sister, Eva Marie, 3, were abducted near Belmont Avenue and First Street on Feb. 3, 1979, while walking to a store with their dog. Eva Marie was found safe hours later on the 3500 block of East Ashlan Avenue. Victoria's nude, bludgeoned body was found two nights later at the bottom of a dry creek near Leonard and Ashlan avenues east of Clovis.
Stephen Sacks
Age: 57
Occupation: Speech-language pathologist with Fresno Unified School District.
Hobbies: Reading, traveling, watching the Boston Red Sox, working for social justice.
Bee reader since: my family moved to Fresno in 1960.
How many letters: 24 since 1987.
Favorite topics: Various wars and U.S. militarism, social justice, corporate greed and sweat shops, climate change, single-payer health care, computer voting/election stealing and organic food.
Why do you write? Because the power of the wealthy corporate elites, in tandem with our politicians, is destroying this country. You don't hear much in the corporate media that bank bailouts are the greatest transfer of wealth from taxpayers to the rich in history! Despite the myth of the liberal media, it is overwhelmingly controlled by big money for its own interests. I don't see my view expressed very often saying something is horribly wrong and common sense suggests that it should be expressed.
Education: B.S. in psychology from U.C. Berkeley; M.A. from Fresno State in communicative disorders.
Family: Wife of 30 years, Valerie Johnson; daughter, Emily, 23; son, Jacob, 20.
Political philosophy: Like Jesus, Gandhi and Martin Luther King espoused, love is the answer to the problems in the world. That means treating people and the environment with respect, living life non-violently and working for liberty and justice.
-- Compiled by Pam Rowse
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