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Press Telegram, July 06, 2008

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Monday's Letters to the Editor

'Investment' Bells should go off every time a politician uses the word "investment." It is usually nothing more than a verbal ploy to hide the ball. That certainly seems true in Mayor Bob Foster's recent comments regarding what he feels is the need for "investment" in infrastructure. While we need to find money to put into long- term infrastructure maintenance, his comments regarding a ballot measure to raise taxes will do nothing to improve the crumbling infrastructure of our city.

Monday's Speakout

Some choice It's disconcerting hearing Barack Obama backpedal about his pullout of Iraq. Now it's a choice between tweedle-dum and tweedle- dee.

The Skies Are Not Friendly

If you're traveling by air this summer, you can look forward to overbooked planes, overflowing overhead bins (because airlines are charging for checked baggage), harried flight crews who aren't much happier about the situation than you are, long and frustrating weather delays, missed connections, nasty bathrooms, crummy snacks you have to pay for, and our favorite: knee-crunching seating and the snoring passenger in front of you whose seat back just crushed your lunch. But suppose you get luc...

Dan Walters: Bill to Regulate 'Diploma Mills' Stalls

A legislative staff analysis of Senate Bill 823 declares that during the 1980s, California acquired the reputation of being "the diploma mill capital of the world." That's not quite true. There were a couple of states, including neighboring Arizona, with worse reputations as redoubts for private, for-profit, trade and professional schools that charged big fees to students and offered little educational value. But California was right up there as a haven for diploma mills.