The Daily Record, March 30, by Caryn Tamber
http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=4872&type=UTTM
“I think the role of the victim in a determination of the sentence is at least more legally, or I would even say constitutionally, justifiable, but I think we have to take very, very great care to distinguish between the victim’s interest, which … may be in conflict with the range of considerations that a just sentencing requires,” Semel said.
KGO-TV, ABC7News, March 30, by Tomas Roman
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/media?id=6048974
“Foreclosing agencies sue the owner for eviction; the owner doesn’t live there…. So what a tenant needs to do is go find a lawyer and fill out the paperwork, and say ‘I want to be a party to this lawsuit.'”
The Recorder/Law.com, March 28, By Niraj Chokshi
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1206700926319
“These actions are very rare,” said Jesse Fried.
ABC Science, March 27, by Agence France-Presse
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/27/2200771.htm?site=science&topic=latest
“On the positive side … we haven’t had an execution in six months and the world hasn’t fallen off its axis. Life has not changed…. It’s not so much a dramatic thing in California where we have executions on a very occasional basis, but in states like Texas, where executions are quite frequent, one could look around and say ‘So? We can live without it.'”
NPR, Tell Me More, March 26, by Michel Martin
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89109192
“When [Barack Obama is] governing, race will be important simply because it’s required to address it, I believe, in order to forge the kind of moral and political consensus we need on issues whether it’s immigration or whether it’s when do we use troops abroad…. If you hide from the issue of race than you’re going to fail in your obligations as a leader to build bridges that will connect people across lines of class and color.”
Climatewire, March 25, by Colin Sullivan
http://www.investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb=4632&mn=6612&pt=msg&mid=4416500
“I think the PUC [Public Utility Commission] has done about the best job it could in trying to set it up in a way that would hold up in court,” Farber said. “They’ve certainly thought hard about it.”
Oakland Tribune, March 24, by Mike Taugher
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20080323/ai_n24956434
“It seems that 22 years after the (appeals court) decision, the Delta is in worse shape,” said Richard Frank…. “The application of public trust values makes a lot of sense,” he said, adding that such a proceeding is “the unfulfilled legacy of the Mono Lake decision.”
Newsday, March 24, by Tom Brune
http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/monday/news/ny-usrace235624517mar24,0,4961041.story
“Obama’s success has exploded cynical preconceptions about the willingness of voters to cross the color line,” he said, “although it would be wrong to suggest that either race or gender is irrelevant….” The question is, Edley said, “Can the political process get beyond those simple but powerful, demography-driven narratives to appreciate the character, values and policies of three real people”?
San Francisco Chronicle, March 23, by Carolyn Jones and Bob Egelko
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/22/BA27VP3K1.DTL
“From the standpoint of keeping the streets safe, she was a candidate for Social Security when she showed up at the beginning of her term,” Zimring said. “This apparatus is all extraordinarily arbitrary.”
The Times-Standard, March 23, by Thadeus Greenson
http://www.times-standard.com/ci_8668539?source=most_viewed
“The main goal was just to make it equal,” Lemon said, adding that she and others faced some opposition in changing the law. “I think No. 1 was the assumption that when people marry, they consent to sex—that wives consent to sex at any time, and don’t really have the right to say no.”