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My View: Tribe asks progress; county wages PR war

By Marshall McKay - 12:00 am

It is unsettling that The Bee editorialized on the complex negotiations between the Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians and Yolo County over our planned Cache Creek Destination Resort project without ever contacting the tribe.

Paul Krugman: Obama economic team must think big – and bigger

By Paul Krugman - Tuesday, January 13 2009 - 12:00 am

Last week President-elect Barack Obama was asked to respond to critics who say that his stimulus plan won't do enough to help the economy. Obama answered that he wants to hear ideas about "how to spend money efficiently and effectively to jump-start the economy."

Will Kempton: 10 highway projects deserve a fast track

By Will Kempton - Tuesday, January 13 2009 - 12:00 am

California's economy is in the tank, the victim of a worldwide recession. While economic woes have affected many state and local governments, the Golden State has been hit particularly hard. This paper reported a loss of 2.6 million jobs nationally in 2008. The numbers for California are just as bad, if not worse, and forecasts show that unemployment in the Sacramento region will reach 10 percent this year.

Rich Lowry: 10 errors shaped a presidency

By Rich Lowry - Tuesday, January 13 2009 - 12:00 am

President Bush infamously couldn't or (more likely) wouldn't identify mistakes he'd made during his presidency at a 2004 press conference. In a newly self-reflective mood in his twilight hours in the White House, Bush has opened up about what went wrong.

Margaret Bengs: Suit over oath perpetuates church-state myth

By Margaret Bengs - Monday, January 12 2009 - 12:00 am

Sacramento atheist Michael Newdow, best known for his obsession with banning the words "under God," from the Pledge of Allegiance, has filed a federal lawsuit to stop the use of the phrase "so help me God," in the presidential oath of office to be administered at President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 20. He also wants to ban the invocation and benediction prayers.

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Daily Debate

George F. Will: Prop. 8 suit likely to lengthen gays' marriage struggle

By George F. Will - 12:00 am

Last November, 13,402,566 California voters expressed themselves for or against Proposition 8, which said that their state's constitution should be amended to define marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman. The voters, confident that they had a right to decide this question by referendum, endorsed Proposition 8 by a margin of 52.3 percent to 47.7 percent.

David S. Broder: Washington newcomers bring fresh faces, inspiring stories

By David S. Broder - Friday, January 9 2009 - 12:00 am

On the opening day of Congress, the elevator deposited me on the fifth floor of the Longworth House Office Building, where, as I expected, the parties celebrating the hard-fought November election victories had spilled out of the offices and filled the corridor with revelry worthy of New Year's Eve.

Harold Meyerson: A page from the Hoover playbook

By Harold Meyerson - Thursday, January 8 2009 - 12:00 am

As the nation navigates through the most perilous straits it has seen since the 1930s, policy-makers are looking back to the '30s to see which of the paths that Depression-era America embarked upon actually led toward recovery. Well, some of our policy-makers. Others, it seems, have seized upon the very policies that deepened the Depression and are repackaging them as solutions for our time.

George F. Will: GM renews subprime loan cycle

By George F. Will - Thursday, January 8 2009 - 12:00 am

In America's ever-more-democratic society, egalitarianism seeps into everything, even the supposedly severe meritocracy of sport.

Wire Opinion

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials

The Associated Press - Wednesday, January 7 2009 - 9:33 am

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:

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