I am assuming that you, reading this, consider yourself to be a sane and rational human being. That being said, would you believe someone if they told you there was a magical bunny that brought baskets with toys and colored eggs to you the night before Easter? I didn’t think[Read More…]
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Letters to the Editor-Forty-Niner BLR coverage
Report needed more “No” quotes I am writing to compliment you on most of your coverage of the Beach Legacy Referendum this past week or so. This was and will continue to be an important issue for the campus to decide. Particularly essential were the questions your reporting raised about[Read More…]
This Week in Cartoons-Dream to be journalist like ‘Grandpa Julio’ lives despite economy
I recently discovered that my grandfather and I had more than our names in common. He too desperately wanted to be a journalist. For a brief period of his life he managed to get published in a local paper in Ensenada, Mexico. His love was sports coverage. In one of[Read More…]
Our View-Time to blow out candle on Iraq War birthday cake
While President Barack Obama tours the Southland, he’ll be bombarded with requests and pleas related to many things, including fixing the economy, healthcare, poverty and education. It’s ironic that the day after the Commander in Chief’s visit to Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show” is the sixth birthday of the Iraq War.[Read More…]
Constitutions written to protect minority
The California Supreme Court recently announced that it began hearings on March 5 on the constitutionality of Proposition 8 that passed in November. Proposition 8, you will recall, repealed the rights of gays and lesbians to marry. The practice of judicial review, in which state or federal supreme courts review[Read More…]
Craigslist sex-for-sale sites put vulnerable women and children at risk
Craigslist.org is yet another example of how our world is becoming increasingly more impersonal and reliant on technology to fulfill perverse desires. It is advertised as a classified website, but it actually facilitates much darker and devious needs than posting ads to sell your refrigerator. It appears that Craigslist promotes[Read More…]
Our View-CSU faces firing squad with potential ‘trigger cuts’
Once again, the California State University system is facing gruesome funding cuts. This time the CSU is under the gun of the federal stimulus package. If California doesn’t get enough cash, the CSU may be shot in the back with cuts for the third time this year. It’s similar to[Read More…]
Economic crisis shows no sign of reverse migration
The pursuit of happiness and employment is an opportunity guaranteed in the United States, or so people think. As immigrants cross the borders, they can already envision a new life with a better paying job as opposed to measly salaries in their country. Unfortunately, the economic struggles haunting the United[Read More…]
Our View-College students warned to avoid break in Mexico
The U.S. State Department stopped just shy last month of telling American college students to stay out of Mexico during spring break. As students get primed for the annual rite of passage — where bathing suits, sun tans, booze and drugs are literally the school uniforms and equipment needed for[Read More…]
Letter to the editor
I’ve come to read hundreds of articles each year about the abuse of foreign teenagers in the United States. Rarely do I come across a writer who writes with such true grit, truth and accuracy as Jean Kim accomplished in her, ‘Foreign students made sex slaves’ appearing in the March[Read More…]