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.”
The Chronicle-Telegram, June 1, by Brad Dicken
http://www.chroniclet.com/2008/06/11/burge-executes-changes-to-lethal-injection/
While the three-drug cocktail may appear to offer a peaceful death to witnesses because the condemned is paralyzed, there’s no way to know for certain if there is suffering, Alper said…. “The question is whether we want to risk an execution being botched just so the people watching an execution are spared seeing the body’s natural reaction to death,” said Alper.
Marketplace Money/American Public Media, May 30, hosted by Tess Vigeland
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/05/30/sec_investment_ranking/
“The ratings agencies played a big role in putting investment-grade stamps on a lot of these mortgage-backed securities, and so the questions about how they went about rating these structured finance products—which by the way are really about sort-of repackaged mortgages, sliced, diced and julienned in a way that makes some aspects of them safe and some more risky—is going to be a real issue.”
Wall Street Journal Online, May 29, by Bobby White
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121203076000928541.html
The problems Oakland faces may be common among major cities across the U.S. which are similarly short staffed and strapped for cash, making them ill-equipped to handle a host of new technologies being deployed, says Jennifer King…. “ShotSpotter, like other law-enforcement technology out there, is predicated on the idea that there’s a coordinated approach to fighting crime,” says Ms. King. “City lawmakers, community leaders and the police need to work together to make it work.”
WWL AM/FM (New Orleans) May 28, hosted by Garland Robinette
http://tinyurl.com/5auba2
“There are many, many people who would rather go to China—where of course you’re adopting both cross-racially and with another ethnic group—than to deal with public child welfare agencies. And it’s because for all people—whether black, or white, or Hispanic, or Native American—public child welfare has historically not been very user-friendly, has not invited people to come and learn about the kinds of children who need parents. Which is why I feel so strongly that you have to begin by a very broad recruitment effort. Children are not condemned to a bad life because they happened to be in foster care.”
San Francisco Daily Journal, May 27, by Laura Ernde
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Elisabeth Semel, director of the Death Penalty Clinic … said she hopes the court recognizes the importance of allowing appeals courts to fully explore questions of juror bias. “You would think a court would want every tool at its disposal to conduct a full inquiry,” Semel said. “It’s kind of like telling a fighter to go into the ring with his hands tied behind his back. It deprives the court of valuable information.”