The nation has been well served by President Obama’s steady leadership. And Mitt Romney has demonstrated clearly that he’s the wrong choice.
Editorial: The evidence is overwhelming that recent photo ID laws are politically motivated.
Since 1996, the media have not been allowed to interview inmates — and conditions have deteriorated. AB 1270 would allow the media back in.
Editorial: University leaders should be looking for ways to make sure that the system is financially accessible to middle-class families.
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what about the working poor class.
From the editorial: “UC covers the full cost of tuition for students whose families earn $80,000 or less; there’s still financial aid for families with higher incomes, but not nearly as much.”
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Editorial: University leaders should be looking for ways to make sure that the system is financially accessible to middle-class families.
Editorial: It is far too early to suggest that Occupy Wall Street protesters represent a resurgence of the left. Yet it would be a mistake to write off the movement before it gets started.
Photo: At L.A. City Hall, activists stage an “occupation” as part of an economic protest. Credit: Los Angeles Times
From The Times’ editorial on Troy Davis:
We have no idea whether or not Davis is innocent; he is the only person who knows for sure whether he gunned down 27-year-old police officer and former Army Ranger Mark MacPhail in a Burger King parking lot in Savannah in 1989. But there have been so many doubts raised since his conviction that it’s impossible to state with any certainty that he’s guilty, either. This is why his sentence should have been commuted to life without parole, and it’s why the death penalty should be abolished. Once the ultimate sanction has been enforced, it’s impossible to take it back when further evidence of innocence emerges.
Photo: Police guard the street to Georgia’s Jackson State Prison, where convicted killer Troy Davis is scheduled to die. Credit: Jessica McGowan / Getty Images
Editorial: The coyotes next door
Many of us live in their neck of the woods, so we need to learn to peacefully, and intelligently, coexist.
Photo: A coyote is seen in a parking area at Griffith Park. Credit: Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times
Editorial: The L.A. City Council should give its backing to SB 568, a bill to help curb the use of polystyrene food containers, which end up as tiny, polluting particles in our oceans.
Photo credit: Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times
A federal insurance plan could help offset the cost of long-term healthcare for an aging population.
With legions of baby boomers starting to retire, a growing number of Americans will soon need some kind of long-term healthcare, whether from a nursing home or from an in-home health aide. A new survey by the SCAN Foundation and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, however, finds that Californians are woefully underprepared for the cost of such services. The survey is a wake-up call to the public, as well as a warning sign to lawmakers who want to pull the plug preemptively on a new federal insurance program for long-term care.
It’s hard to assess the claims of prisoners when reporters are being denied access to them:
Oscar Hidalgo, spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, told Times staff writer Jack Dolan that media weren’t being allowed into Pelican Bay “due to security and safety issues.” We’d be more inclined to believe that, and not that prison officials were trying to avoid adverse publicity, if California’s prisons didn’t have such an extraordinary history of shoddy medical care and inhumane conditions.
Alexandra LeTellier compiles excerpts from Times’ editorials on homelessness.
Editorial: Confucius is no match for Mao in Tiananmen Square face-off.
Photo: Visitor look at items on display at the Louis Vuitton Voyages exhibition in the national museum of China in Beijing. Credit: Gou Yige / AFP/Getty Images
A bill by state Sen. Mark Leno intelligently balances the needs of police to gather evidence from cellphones with the historic limitations on their power to search.
As California’s public schools have lost state funding, they’ve increasingly turned to a sort of “pay to learn” system. It’s unconstitutional.
