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Proposed Madera casino site is still a bad choice
The proposed casino on Highway 99 in Madera County is still a bad idea, even if the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs has rejected the Old Mill site near the mountain town of North Fork as an alternative location.

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The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Friday, Jul 4, 2008

Fresno's two-tier park fee plan has lots of problems As a fundraising and public-relations vehicle, Fresno's new two-tier park fee plan has a couple of flat tires and a broken axle. The Fresno City Council should junk it.
Thursday, Jul 3, 2008

Perata hopes to avoid redistricting reform again by baffling the voters We need a truth-in-labeling law for politics. That might prevent Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata from lying about Proposition 11, the redistricting reform measure on the November ballot. He's trying to kill the initiative because it would make legislators more accountable to voters.
Thursday, Jul 3, 2008

Cost of home fireworks too high We need to rethink our love affair with fireworks, at least the ones we ignite ourselves. In a season of unusual dryness, already marked by more than 1,000 fires statewide, and with the attendant risk of injury and property damage, the joy of those "safe-and-sane" personal displays is one we can ill afford.
Wednesday, Jul 2, 2008

VALLEY'S TOP 10: Alternatives to fireworks on the Fourth of July 10. Bang pots together on the front lawn.

9. Throw glitter in air while popping sheets of Bubble Wrap.

8. Play soundtracks from war movies.

7. Close eyes real hard until you see stars.

6. Two words: SUV bonfire.

5. Play the spoons on aluminum garage doors.

4. Engineer a cell-phone light show.

3. Give everybody a light-up clown nose.

2. Play John Philip Souza songs real loud.

1. Put Mayor Alan Autry and Judge Oliver Wanger in a courtroom together.

Opinion Talk
Read the Declaration of Independence to your children today One of the traditions of the editorial pages of The Bee is to run the Declaration of Independence every Fourth of July. We get a great response from readers and they tell us the various ways they've used it to celebrate our nation's independence. Some [More]

New cars will be mobile wireless Internet hotspots California's Legislature is going to have to learn to move a whole lot faster if it ever hopes to keep up with technology. Take the hands-free cell-phone law. By the time this clumsy Godzilla of an organization could actually go through its committees, its testimonies, [More]

What's the forecast on fireworks? Ever since the governor urged restraint on the use of fireworks, it's been in the news all week long (and here and here). We even wrote an editorial discouraging the use of home fireworks. Have the fires burning across the state impacted your Fourth of [More]

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