Opinion: Colorblind Versus Blindfolded,
Los Angeles Times
It's easy to condemn discrimination, segregation and racism. It's harder
to agree on what practical steps are needed to combat them.
Opinion: Law and Logic Should Delay Measure
on Race, Los Angeles Times
The Racial Privacy Initiative, which would prohibit governments in California
from gathering data about the racial effect of their activities, is
set to be on the Oct. 7 recall ballot. The timing is a legal mistake
and a policy mistake as well.
Opinion: Junk-Bond State?,
Wall St. Journal
By focusing exclusively on the recall's political machinations, we are
missing the real, and deeper, crisis -- a growing financial catastrophe
that the state can ill afford to postpone until the dust from the recall
has settled.
Opinion: Show Us the Money, New York Times
The National Collegiate Athletic Association not only rules college
athletics, it also limits the opportunities of the 360,000 student-athletes
it purports to serve.
Editorial: Budget debacle shows the
need for fiscal reform, Daily Bulletin
This should be the year that marks a turning point for California, to
judge by events.
Dan Walters: Locals tired of wearing 'kick me' signs in state budget
travails, Sacramento Bee
When California voters enacted Proposition 13 in 1978, slashing property
taxes by billions of dollars, they probably didn't intend to convert
local governments into stepchildren of the state government.
Editorial: A moment for reform,
San Francisco Chronicle
With a state budget at hand -- however flawed -- it's too easy for Sacramento
legislators to just flee the Capitol to escape the heat. The real work
to fashion true reform to end the state's dysfunctional budgeting process
lies ahead.
