Boston Globe, June 8, by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/06/08/i_now_pronounce_you____friend_and_friend/?page=4
Changes of this kind would “allow you to say, these are people who matter deeply to me,” said Rachel Moran.… “I want that to count, not only in my own intimate life, but in the eyes of the law.”
San Francisco Daily Journal, June 6, by Laura Ernde
http://www.dailyjournal.com [Registration required]
“Business as usual, in terms of water diversion, is basically at an end.… It’s an important policy decision. It speaks some broader truths and I think some of the language that is in there is going to influence policy-making by the other two branches of government.”
Contra Costa Times, June 6, by Matt Krupnick
http://www.contracostatimes.com/search/ci_9504652?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contracostatimes.com
Sallie Mae sent borrowers’ passwords by e-mail, a practice few lenders use, said Jennifer Lynch, an attorney who oversaw the student-led project…. “Sallie Mae’s practices just seemed antiquated, to say the least, and very risky,” she said. “They should have known this was a risky practice.”
“They sent this information to their customers … and people have been discussing it on blogs,” [student Kathleen] Lu said.
San Francisco Daily Journal, June 5, by Peter Matuszak
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“I think the opponents of Prop. 99 are correct and probably it will not have that much on-the-ground impact.… In recent years since Kelo, we have rarely seen it used in California to condemn owner-occupied, single-family homes. That behavior and government conduct hadn’t occurred more in California, according to most studies.”
Sacramento Bee, June 5, by Ryan Lillis, Bill Lindelof and Bobby Caina Calvan
http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/990310.html
If the initiative passes, a legal challenge of the ruling is almost assured, said Jesse Choper, a law professor at UC Berkeley.
Contra Costa Times, June 4, by Howard Mintz and Mary Anne Ostrom
http://www.contracostatimes.com/search/ci_9482620?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contracostatimes.com
“I feel fairly confident advising people to go ahead and get married, with the understanding it’s not absolutely certain,” said Joan Hollinger.
PBS, NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, June 4
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june08/obamahistory_06-04.html
“Unfortunately, there continue to be some people who can’t get past looking at someone because of their ethnicity or the color of the skin. But there are many more people—and that’s what’s so wonderful about this country—there’s an optimism and a hope. Remember, elections are about the future. And the American people, through this long, contorted campaign process, have decided that Senator Obama represents the future that they want to believe in.”
Oakland Tribune, June 3, by Tammerlin Drummond
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/elections/ci_9471385
Chris Edley, a senior advisor for the Obama campaign … says he is already focused on what comes next in the general election…. “If he wins,” Edley said, “he’s going to need to have the moral power to tackle the big challenges.”
Oakland Tribune, June 2, by Angela Woodall
http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_9460127?source=most_emailed
Finding solutions to the daunting problems facing the country will take a president with “extraordinary intelligence, extraordinary political skills and an imperturbable moral compass.”
Nurse.com, June 2, by Barbara Kirchheimer
http://include.nurse.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080602/NATIONAL02/80603006/-1/frontpage
“Nobody disputes that if the three-drug formula works to perfection, inmates should be completely anesthetized and deeply unconscious at the time they’re paralyzed and killed by the potassium chloride,” says Ty Alper…. “But by paralyzing the inmate, it’s hard for anyone except someone who’s highly trained to know about anesthetic depth, to know whether the inmate is truly unconscious or not, so we don’t know how many lethal injection executions have been terribly botched.”