Worcester Telegram, October 20, 2011 by Dave Greenslit
http://www.telegram.com/article/20111020/NEWS/110209168/1003/NEWS03
A key, and controversial, member of the Bush administration said last night that Osama bin Laden should have been captured rather than killed….”It’s a lot easier to kill them than capture them,” Mr. Yoo said of bin Laden and other terrorists who have been killed, many by drone strikes, while Barack Obama has been president.
KPCC-FM October 20, 2011 Host Patt Morrison
http://www.scpr.org/programs/patt-morrison/2011/10/20/21086/halloween-sex-offfenders
“Any amount of sex crime is something that the community should be concerned about,” said Zimring, “but if we’re trying to protect our children sexually, 94 percent of the people who are going to offend against them sexually are going to be family members or friends. So it isn’t trick-or-treat time, it’s dinner time that you have to worry about.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 20, 2011 by Jeff Gelles
http://articles.philly.com/2011-10-20/business/30301830_1_verizon-and-verizon-wireless-privacy-policy-new-advertising-program
“The standard should be opt in,” Hoofnagle said. “If consumers really want more targeted advertising mediated from their own service provider, which they are directly paying, the service provider should get consent first.”
-The New York Times, October 18, 2011 by Julia Preston
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/us/latinos-said-to-bear-weight-of-deportation-program.html?_r=2
“If Secure Communities was working properly,” the report said, a match under the program “should never result in the apprehension” of a citizen.
-KQED News, October 19, 2011 Host Tara Siler
http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201110191730/a
“The unauthorized population in this country: 77% are Latinos, 13% Hatians, 6% from Europe and Canada. In our sample, 93% of the people identified for deportation were Latino…. We recommend the government consider suspending this program until they fix clearly the problems that we have outlined.”
-Santa Cruz Sentinel, October 19, 2011 by Jason Hoppin
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_19149446
“When we found this, we were quite disturbed because we didn’t expect to see U.S. citizens in the sample,” said Aarti Kohli, director of immigration policy at the Warren Institute.
-The Denver Post, October 20, 2011 by Nancy Lofholm
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_19152289
“We think Secure Communities should be suspended until they address the problems,” said Aarti Kohli, director of immigration policy at the University of California Berkeley School of Law’s Warren Institute.
-Hispanically Speaking News, October 21, 2011 by HS News Staff
http://bit.ly/trEzvH
“The government’s own data has consistently shown that most of the people impacted by this program have no criminal record or are low-level offenders. To lock these people up in detention centers without access to attorneys or an opportunity to see a judge is undemocratic,” said Kohli.
-The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 24, 2011 by Michael Matza
http://articles.philly.com/2011-10-24/news/30316728_1_bob-dane-deportation-numbers-illegal-immigration
The report, “Secure Communities by the Numbers,” concluded that many immigrants “are pushed rapidly through the system, without appropriate checks or opportunities to challenge their detention and/or deportation.”
ABC-7 TV San Francisco, October 18, 2011 Host Mark Matthews
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/politics&id=8397022
At UC Berkeley, Andrea Russi headed a study on increasing employment opportunities for people with prior convictions. She says similar plans have been tried, but didn’t catch on. “And part of that maybe that it requires, you know, some paperwork and jumping though some hoops to be able to get the tax credit,” said Russi.
-San Francisco Chronicle, October 17, 2011 by Joe Garofoli
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/17/MN3F1LHD2L.DTL
“The fact that we don’t have a voice has resulted in many of the issues we’re confronting.”
-Capitol Weekly, October 27, 2011 by John Howard
http://bit.ly/tj5bPF
To Gill, the area is under-represented, “neither a state or federal legislator lives there. It comprises some of the most under-represented people in America. They are bearing the brunt of the economic crises. I attribute that to the leadership vacuum.”
The Daily Californian, October 17, 2011 by Aaida Samad
http://www.dailycal.org/2011/10/17/federal-lawsuit-filed-against-uc-berkeley-officials/
“The main point is to ensure that there’s accountability when University officials violate the constitutional rights of their students and community members,” he said in an email. “It seems increasingly clear that the University will only respond to litigation. It’s disheartening, but that’s where we’re at.”
Watertown Daily Times, October 16, 2011 by Johnson News Service
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20111016/OPINION01/710169967/-1/opinion
“With all its ambiguities and difficulties, the photographic brave new world is better than its predecessor,” Franklin E. Zimring, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, told the Times. “The kinds of mistakes you can make with it are less often and less catastrophic” than just oral or written versions of what occurred.
The Macomb Daily, September 18, 2011 by Kathy Barks Hoffman
http://www.macombdaily.com/articles/2011/09/18/news/politics/doc4e76bf5826994006546287.txt
“If people think that cutting taxes and shrinking government by themselves are going to improve their economy, they should look at what happened to Michigan over the (past) decade,” Granholm told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
KALW-FM News, October 13, 2011 Host Holly Kernan
http://blog.sfgate.com/kalw/2011/10/13/saving-the-uc-%E2%80%93-but-at-what-cost-to-students/
“All those people who told me that they were advocates for the UC system, who then would vote for the increased pay for prison guards and then cut the UC by hundreds of millions of dollars, had fooled me a little bit. And I’m not fooled anymore.”