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Mailbag: Saving the Earth hardly starts with fire pits
Melville tells us in the opening lines of "Moby Dick:" "Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries — stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all...Tags: Business, Politics, Government, United Nations, Environmental Pollution
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Commentary: Government is reason for high tuition, not solution
This is in response to the Feb. 21 letter to the H.B. Independent ("Affordability is essential to higher education") in which two well-meaning Cal State Long Beach students suggest President Barack Obama intervene to lower college costs. In the...Tags: Barack Obama, California State University, Long Beach, Medicaid, Government Health Care, Politics
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Commentary: Implementing health-care plan sets California on 'collision course'
If, as several experts anticipate, the Supreme Court strikes down some or all of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), California will find itself in the untenable position of having promised services it cannot possibly provide without...Tags: Politics, Government, Plan B (drug), Health, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Making a difference on the dance floor
When Salwa Rizkalla's father signed her up for ballet lessons, she went to class begrudgingly.
But those lessons set the 10-year-old on a path to grandeur, first as a professional ballet dancer and later as a teacher.
The artistic director of...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Dance, Politics, Opera (genre), Arts and Culture
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City Lights: Teaching and learning from a Libyan friend
I imagine she would still look the same. My flatmate was in her early 20s when I saw her last, and less than a decade has passed since then. When I see crowd photos of the uprising in Libya, I scan the faces to check for hers — smiling or yelling...Tags: Libyan Civil War (2011), Politics, Saddam Hussein, Government, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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In The Pipeline: After 9/11, cops become 'brothers'
Growing up in New York, I watched the twin towers of the World Trade Center going up in the early 1970s. I recall how, at times, one of the buildings was rising a few floors faster than the other. But once it was all said and done, there they were —...Tags: Regional Authority, Politics, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Government, Empire State Building
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Community Commentary: Amnesty for illegal immigrants not the answer
Editor's note: This corrects the headline. In a recent speech, President Barack Obama called the border between the United States and Mexico "secure." He offered an illegal immigration reform plan that gives amnesty to those currently here illegally...Tags: Barack Obama, Crimes, Career and Workplace, Regional Authority, Huntington Beach
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School board clerk upset at last-minute cancellation
A high school board trustee plans to give the United States Army Field Band a dressing-down after it abruptly canceled a show at Edison High School. Bonnie Castrey, the Huntington Beach Union High School District's board clerk, said she intends to...Tags: Huntington Beach, Politics, U.S. Government Shutdown Controversy (2011), Entertainment, Arizona
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Sounding Off: We must fix free market as needed
Regarding "Redistributing wealth does not help situation" by Assemblyman Jim Silva (Community Commentary, Aug. 5): Before wealth can be redistributed, it must be created by brains and hard work. Americans expect all who are able to pitch in, take care...Tags: Career and Workplace, Wages and Pensions, Government, Social Security, Marketing
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Syria's military shows unexpected resilience
BEIRUT — The military onslaught this week against the strategic Syrian town of Qusair has dramatized a surprising combat resilience that has already put rebel forces on the defensive on other key fronts, including near the capital, Damascus. The...
Tags: Politics, Wars and Interventions, Skype, Human Rights, Bashar Assad
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Higher consumer spending will offset sequester cuts, economists say
WASHINGTON -- Consumers will help keep economic growth on track this year, as new projections of their spending indicate it will offset the hit to the recovery from the federal government's automatic budget cuts, a panel of economists said Monday. The...
Tags: Politics, Government, Economic Indicator, Labor Markets, Consumers
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It's news, not espionage
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has no business rummaging through journalists' phone records, perusing their emails and tracking their movements in an attempt to keep them from gathering news. This heavy-handed business isn't chilling, it's...Tags: Barack Obama, FBI, Journalism, Pentagon Papers Release (2011), Politics
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