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Health Care Reform and Anti-Semitism
Opinion Aug 25, 2009, by Daniela Hurezanu
If you have been watching the health care “debate” you must be aware that it has turned into a grotesque contest on who can come up with the most outrageous Nazi comparison. This is not the first time, of course, that Hitler and Nazism have been used as props by those who, out of arguments, want to convince the other party that they are right. I used to just shrug my shoulders when faced with such people, but this time it’s different. Because now we are not dealing with some “fringe elementsԗnow we are dealing with a movement that is supported by the second most important party in this country, the GOP.
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America, Watch Out!
Opinion Aug 18, 2009, by R. W. Goatlips
I’ve thoroughly read Obama’s proposed health care plan. And by “read” I mean I’ve heard what other commentators on the AM radio have had to say about the various versions floating through Congress. And in these versions, there’s a lot of devils in the details. Bad devils who look like John Carradine, with curly mustaches and opera capes. All of them from a place called “Hell.”
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Health Care and The Screaming Me-Me’s
Opinion Aug 11, 2009, by David Sirota 1 CommentsI know I should be mortified by the lobbyist-organized mobs of angry Brooks Brothers mannequins who are now making headlines by shutting down congressional town-hall meetings.
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Of Film Festivals and Homophobia
Opinion Aug 06, 2009, by Bettina Aptheker 1 CommentsWe find ourselves in Sweden. A gay couple is on the waiting list to adopt a baby. They have been approved as parents. They receive a letter. A boy, age 1.5, is arriving. The men are ecstatic, although one of them is still a bit apprehensive about this whole adoption idea. They outfit a nursery. The “baby” arrives on a Friday afternoon. He is 15, a troubled teen released from a reformatory, and to say that he is homophobic is to put it mildly.
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Santa Cruz Coho Researcher Responds to Critics
Opinion Jul 29, 2009, by Sean Hayes
A recent article and several letters have appeared in the Santa Cruz Weekly regarding coho salmon, local and statewide forestry practices and pending policy changes, along with a quote from myself and comments about data collected by research that I and others conduct in the Scott Creek watershed. These articles have raised several issues that would benefit from clarification.
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We Can’t Afford Not to Protect Our Oceans
Opinion Jul 29, 2009, by Kaitilin Gaffney
With budget woes in every headline and economic concerns touching every household, some say California can no longer afford to be a leader in conservation: we should shutter our state parks, defer action on climate change, and put the breaks on our landmark effort to establish marine protected areas for our oceans.
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Berry Damage: Moth or Myth?
Opinion Jul 24, 2009, by Roy Upton
There has been much recent media coverage on the damage to raspberries in Watsonville, damage purportedly caused by the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM). But was the damage caused by LBAM or by any of the more than 80 leafroller moths that are native to California? Was it caused by one of the five other leafrollers that are common in Santa Cruz County? All leafrollers inflict the same kind of damage.
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Water Conservation No Longer Optional
Opinion Jul 19, 2009, by Cynthia Koehler 1 Comments
Why should anyone care if California salmon, or local fishermen, go the way of the dodo? Can’t we just buy fish from Alaska? And what’s wrong with the farmed stuff, anyway? Because of economic suffering in the Central Valley, some are calling for an end to environmental protections for California’s once-mighty salmon runs.
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Ditch The Plastic Forks!
Opinion Jul 08, 2009, by Laura Kasa 1 Comments
Exultant over the reduced garbage haul off Santa Cruz County beaches following the Fourth of July weekend, Save Our Shores Executive Director Laura Kasa turns to the next frontier: eliminating plastics. “We need a grassroots effort to say that we don’t want plastics in our ocean,” she writes.
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Palin’s Resignation No Surprise
Opinion Jul 06, 2009, by Geoff Dunn
It’s been a helluva Independence Day weekend in the Last Frontier. Wow! First the Governor resigns, then she allows no questions, no open media coverage, provides no serious explanation and expects no one to wonder why in the world she would step down from the only platform from which she can claim any political legitimacy.
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