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- Letters to the editor
Regarding “Probe: Police dog died of heatstroke” (Our Region, July 23):
Why is San Diego Police Officer Paul Hubka still on the payroll? Desk job or not, he does not deserve to be a member of the SDPD. He left a fellow “officer” to die.
- DAVID S. BRODER THE WASHINGTON POST
Recent events prove cruel to McCain
It made no sense when Barack Obama left the country on his nine-day overseas tour for some of my fellow columnists to describe it as a high-risk venture. Foreign leaders, who can read the polls as well as anyone, would go out of their way not to embarrass a man who may, six months from now, be president of the United States.
- ROBERT NOVAK CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Unmoved by military voting scandal
Rep. Roy Blunt, the House Republican whip, on July 8 introduced a resolution demanding that the Defense Department better enable U.S. military personnel overseas to vote in the November elections. That act was followed by silence.
- Been there, done that on state budget
Three weeks into the new fiscal year, California remains without a state budget. Republican lawmakers have rejected the budget approved by the Democratic majority of the two-house budget conference committee, but they have failed to say what they would cut to avoid the tax increase proposed by the Democratic leadership.
- On water, farmers doing their share
For most San Diegans, the current water supply shortage situation is still just a headline in a newspaper, a water-saving slogan on radio or a bill-stuffer asking us to please conserve by taking the “20 Gallon Challenge.”
- LEONARD PITTS JR. THE MIAMI HERALD
Slavery in 20th-century America
This is how John Davis became a slave:
He was walking one evening from the train depot in Goodwater, Ala., when a white man appeared in the road. “N-----,” he demanded, “have you got any money?”
- Today on SignOnRadio
At 11 a.m., FlashReport founder and publisher Jon Fleischman will talk state politics on “Radio Active” with Union-Tribune editorial writer Chris Reed.
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