The New York Times, September 19, 2009 by James P. Tuthill
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/opinion/l20finance.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2
It was a single person who insisted that some of the culprits in our financial calamity not only be identified, but actually be held accountable. It wasn’t the executive branch, or the regulators, or Congress. It was Judge Jed S. Rakoff.
-Dayton Daily News, September 19, 2009 by Tom Beyerlein
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/crime/should-doctors-be-allowed-to-assist-in-the-execution-of-death-row-inmates-307631.html
Ty Alper, associate director of the Death Penalty Clinic … said, “I think what happened with Mr. Broom should give no one confidence in the process or the people. Mr. Broom had to help them. I mean, the whole thing is kind of ghoulish.”
-KTVU, September 23, 2009 by Rita Williams
http://www.ktvu.com/video/20958350/index.html
“There’s no reason to think what happened in Ohio cannot happen in California. The lethal injection protocols that the state has proposed using in California have no provisions for what will happen, what prison officials are supposed to do, if they can’t obtain access to an inmate’s veins…. We should care because we have a constitution that requires that executions are humane.”
The California Report, September 18, 2009 Host Scott Shafer
http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R909181630/a
The business net receipts tax is a way to implement something like a value-added tax at the state level. Nothing quite like this has ever been tried before. So this is a novel tax instrument relying on advances in economic theory, but it has some characteristics that are similar to sales taxes—it’s a consumption tax—and some characteristics similar to business-income taxes. It can be viewed as a hybrid between a business-income tax and a sales tax.
Ventura County Star, September 18, 2009 by Scott Hadly
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/sep/18/former-clinton-aide-calls-for-civility/
“Growing emotional as she recalled her childhood in Oxnard, Echaveste said, “I have had other people from other countries say to me there’s no other place a farmworker’s daughter who is of immigrant parents with no education could go from Channel Islands High School to Stanford to Berkeley and go on to work in the White House.”
Daily Journal, September 17, 2009 by Richard Frank
http://www.dailyjournal.com/ (requires registration)
These five Supreme Court decisions, taken together, demonstrate several important trends. First, environmentalists lost all five cases; this was, on balance, a terrible year for the environment. Second (and conversely), the federal government fared quite well in these decisions, prevailing in four of the five. Third, business interests did even better than federal interests, winning all of the Supreme Court environmental cases last term in which they were involved. Fourth, in all five cases the Supreme Court reversed pro-environment rulings by the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals.
-The Dallas Morning News, September 17, 2009 by Brandon Formby
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/091709dnmetirvingcap.3d5e574.html
“We wanted just do a pure investigation of the data,” Kohli said. “When we did it, it was kind of amazing. If you look at the chart, you see how the spike happened.”
-The Dallas Morning News, September 24, 2009 by Brandon Formby
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-profiling_24met.ART.Central.Edition1.4bf3bd4.html
“We didn’t create the data,” she said. “We are an academic institution, and our reputation rests on our ability to do unbiased research. Why would we risk that?”
The Daily Californian, September 16, 2009 by Alan Cai
http://www.dailycal.org/article/106633/bill_fails_to_restore_domestic_abuse_shelter_fundi
According to Nancy Lemon, a lecturer at Boalt Hall School of Law who studies domestic violence, agencies for the abused are a critical resource that have reduced homicide rates and ultimately save the state money. “Since each homicide costs approximately $1 million to the state for law enforcement, prosecution, jail, court time and other expenses, it is also indeed cost-saving to fund shelters,” she said.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 16, 2009 by Mary Ann Mason
http://chronicle.com/article/How-the-Snow-Woman-Effect/48377/
Often subtle discrimination is rooted in gender stereotypes—especially when it comes to the “leadership issue.” Female candidates are purportedly passed up for promotions based on a conscious or unconscious belief that women do not have what it takes to lead men.
The Media Institute, IP Issues, September 16, 2009 by Peter Menell
http://www.mediainstitute.org/new_site/IPI/091609_GoogleBooksSettlement.php
Google’s efforts deserve commendation, but to allow Google effective monopoly control over the world’s most comprehensive knowledge repository would be out of proportion to those efforts. Such control would pose undue threats to long-term competition, innovation, and preservation of and access to knowledge.
SF Weekly, September 14, 2009 by Matt Smith
http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-09-16/news/obama-s-stimulus-money-will-increase-traffic-but-not-bridge-safety/
Economists disagree on many things, but not on the wisdom of raising the gas tax. “Given all the problems associated with gasoline consumption—congestion, global warming, national security, pollution, damage to roads—a sufficient tax on this activity is the most efficient way to cause people to take these costs into account,” said Alan Auerbach.