Day after day in the Valley innocent people face guns, knives, beatings, torture, rape, kidnapping. It's an everyday threat. Long Beach Press Telegram A looming state deficit California State Treasurer Phil Angelides' tactics may be overly alarmist, but he is right to draw attention to bureaucratic delays that might cost taxpayers additional billions on top of an already outrageous energy tab. Among the hundreds of bills awaiting approval or veto by Gov. Gray Davis is one that would undo a serious mistake made by the governor. It would restore most of the cuts he made in the budgets of community colleges.
Experts say that never has so much charitable money been raised so quickly.
And the fund-raisers are still going on. First Monday The Supreme Court begins a new term today, with a still-expanding docket that embraces disputes over school vouchers, affirmative action, property rights and the death penalty. But this first Monday also brings a heightened appreciation for the strength and continuity of the constitutional system in which the high court acts as peaceful arbiter of some of society's most vexing social and political issues. The expected presence of Solicitor General Theodore Olson, whose wife died aboard the hijacked jet that smashed into the Pentagon, only increases the occasion's poignancy. Yet its chances of converting to a for-profit corporation are caught up in political disputes.