• EDITORIAL: Lawmakers fail on pension reform

    There's a lot of hand-wringing in Sacramento over the massive cuts that will be needed to balance the state budget. But until the California Legislature actually reforms the public employee pension system, taxpayers can be sure lawmakers aren't

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EDITORIAL: Costa, Valadao, Xiong, Nunes for Valley Congressional seats

Congress faces critical decisions on the federal deficit, immigration, the future of Medicare and Social Security, and many other issues. San Joaquin Valley voters must send lawmakers to Washington who will represent their interests, as well as work toget

Easy fixes won’t help downtown

From the time big retailers began fleeing Fresno’s downtown more than 40 years ago, community leaders have chased just about every easy fix that’s been dangled in front of them to make downtown vibrant again. Instead of methodically building downtown as a destination for residents, they’ve fallen in love with out-of-town consultants, and the solutions they push to desperate cities.

Let sleeping Germans lie

The newly elected French Socialist president, Francois Hollande, is warning Germany that Mediterranean ideas of "growth," not Germanic "austerity," should be the new European creed. No surprise there -- reckless debtors often blame the

Honoring a Friend

My friend is dying. He has a disease and his body will not sustain itself. No one knows how much longer he will live, first it was months, fortunately it now may be longer, perhaps years.

The very public trial of Justice Roberts

WASHINGTON -- Novelist John Grisham could hardly spin a more provocative fiction: The president and his surrogates mount an aggressive campaign to intimidate the chief justice of the United States, implying ruin and ridicule should he fail to vote in a pi

Easier than ever to take part in astronomic events

Did you see this weekend's eclipse? At my house in Clovis, we projected the image through a pinhole viewer onto the back wall. Also impressive was the cascade of crescent shadows coming through the leaves in the trees. Here's a...read more »

Newspaper 'computers' over the years

When I first started in the newspaper business more than four decades ago, the "computer" we wrote news stories with was a simple manual typewriter. It didn't need electricity to power it, just a fairly decent typist pounding away on...read more »

We can improve public education

There are many political barriers to improving education in California, and over the years, there have been many reform efforts. Most have had limited success. There is one more in the works. Key among this plan's reforms are revamping California's...read more »

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