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 A vote for family values MEMBERS OF the California Assembly are expected to vote as early as today on legislation that would greatly expand the rights and responsibilities of same-sex couples. Consider ... Confusion, chaos top the ballot box WHEN SAN FRANCISCO voters approved a new election system of instant runoffs last November, they were told that the preferential ranking idea would end years of voting follies an...  SO, WHAT IF AL GORE WAS PRESIDENT? Editor -- Bush-supporting letter-writer Kay Corbin of Piedmont challenges us to "have the courage" to consider what the world situation would ... more reader opinions  Children left behind Some children are worth more than others. That's the disturbing proposition in the tax bill signed by President Bush, who once pledged to "leave no child behind." Poor children ... Eternal spamnation or accountability? Spam. It not only clutters our electronic in-boxes with a rapidly growing volume of annoying and unsolicited junk, it also poses a chronic threat to e- mail as a reliable commun... Open Forum Submissions
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 More from Chronicle columnists: Ruth Rosen, Joan Ryan, Debra Saunders. Syndicated Columnists  Mark Morford DisneyAOLViacom Owns Your Butt After all, who the hell wants diversity and choice in major media? Thanks, FCC! ... Harley Sorensen Other Cracks In The Liberty Bell Perhaps I'm silly to do so, but I attach great significance to certain events, some small, some major.... Adam Sparks Pennies From Heaven, D.C. Money -- who needs it? Apparently not Democrats, who are generally unhappy campers over the president's tax cut.... Emil Guillermo Jayson Blair, the RPI and APA Heritage Month Jayson Blair, the Racial Privacy Initiative and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month -- these three seemingly disparate subjects ... |
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Sunday, June 1, 2003 Edition Activists must be in for the long haul, because change takes time Rebecca Solnit I once read an anecdote by someone in Women Strike for Peace, the first great anti-nuclear movement in the United States, that contributed to a major victory: the 1963 end of ab... California ka-ching! No big winner yet in the multibillion-dollar battle over Indian gaming Jim Doyle A half hour north of Santa Rosa on Highway 101, two searchlights could be seen combing the night sky above the rural Hopland Valley, illuminating the way for drivers eager to he... The jury never rests Vicki Haddock, Insight Staff Writer This is the extraordinary saga of one jury that, after the judge said, "Case closed," simply refused to be excused -- or to excuse the judicial system. To the contrary, many of ... BITES Good week for -- MD tracking: Now Rumsfeld says Iraq may have destroyed its weapons before the war. -- Debt lovers: $320 billion tax cut signed into law. -- Smokin': Canada move... CHRON QUIZ Critter alert Marshall Kilduff Pick one: 1 What creature has returned to Point Reyes after 100 years? A. Black bear B. Bald eagle C. Wild burros D. Carrier pigeon 2 How much salmon sold in the U.S. comes from... Feuding, Family Leave and Fashionistas THE MIDEAST "You may not like the word, but what's happening is occupation. Holding 3.5 million Palestinians is a bad thing for Israel, for the Palestinians and for the Israeli ... TELECOMMUNICATIONS $70 Billion, Down the Tubes / The big, bad bandwidth caper M.M. Acosta I was wondering how to pay my overdue cable bill, when he walked into the office unannounced, a short, slumpy fellow looking like a dog had stolen his hamburger. "Wasn't the boy... TWO CENTS Do you have any faith that an economic recovery is under way? ECONOMY Why Not Spend Our Way Back to Prosperity? / Taking the slump out of San Francisco Gerald R. Adams Not since the Great Depression has San Francisco seemed so forlorn. In a city that is the economic epicenter of Northern California, downtown sidewalks are no longer chock-a-blo... INTERROGATION Rack 'n' Roll / Barney and Metallica, now that's serious torture Crispin Sartwell American intelligence agents have been using Metallica and Barney, according to the Guardian of London, rather than rubber hoses and naked light bulbs, to break Iraqi prisoners.... JUSTICE Using Vestige of Racism to Prosecute Young Blacks / Stranger fruit: Lynching laws Earl Ofari Hutchinson In a bizarre twist, South Carolina has stood America's most disgraceful racial blot -- lynching -- on its head. State prosecutors are using an anti-lynching statute passed in 19... Stephanie Salter, Insight Staff Writer STATE BUDGET Salvation Through Sin Tax / Making up the money: We have ways The governor and state legislators tell us that making up for California's $38 billion budget shortfall has to be "ugly." But does it? Maybe all we need to do is just loosen up ... | ||||||||||||||||||
