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Measure G will improve Arcata’s police and roads

Published: Oct 15 2008, 12:20 AM · Updated: Oct 15 2008, 12:21 AM

Dear Editor, As a member of Arcata’s last two budget task forces as well as the Transaction and User Tax Task Force; I encourage Arcata residents to support Measure G in the upcoming Nov. 4 election. Through a temporary additional three-quarter cent sales tax increase, Measure G would raise an estimated $1.5 million annually that would go directly to the city.

Fennell’s ‘electability’ is beyond question

Published: Oct 14 2008, 11:49 PM · Updated: Oct 15 2008, 12:21 AM

Dear Editor, I have been volunteering for Estelle Fennell’s campaign going door to door with her all over the 2nd District. It has been great!

Military service safer than driving

Published: Oct 14 2008, 11:45 PM · Updated: Oct 15 2008, 12:17 AM

Dear Editor, Measures F (Arcata) and J (Eureka) are bad for young adults, bad for our communities and bad for our nation.

Enlisting at a young age isn’t always bad

Published: Oct 14 2008, 11:42 PM · Updated: Oct 15 2008, 12:16 AM

Dear Editor, In 1944, I was on a hospital ship from Saipan in the Marianas Islands to Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands. One man from my battalion had lost a leg below the knee and was pretty despondent. Knowing him and being in the bed next to him, I was trying to reassure him, but not doing too well at it.

The Eureka Reporter recommends...

Published: Oct 14 2008, 11:30 PM · Updated: Oct 14 2008, 11:42 PM

These three state ballot propositions have to do with aspects of the criminal justice system. PROPOSITION 5 deals with nonviolent drug offenses, sentencing, parole and rehabilitation programs.

Iraqi police take over more security roles

Published: Oct 14 2008, 10:52 PM · Updated: Oct 14 2008, 10:55 PM

By Haider Ajina

(By the 18th Military Police Brigade, Public Affairs Office, Oct. 8) BAGHDAD — Security improvements in Baghdad continue to progress as Iraqi security forces conducted a transfer of authority in more than 10 muhallas (neighborhoods) yesterday in the Karkh Directorate of Baghdad. In the Kindi and Qadasiyah muhallas of Baghdad, Iraqi army soldiers handed over security responsibilities to the Iraqi police.

Omens in Pennsylvania

Published: Oct 14 2008, 10:50 PM · Updated: Oct 14 2008, 10:56 PM

By David Broder

UPPER DUBLIN, Pa. — Last April, on the eve of the Pennsylvania primary, voters in this Philadelphia suburb were finding plenty of fault with both Barack Obama and John McCain. Many were preparing to — and soon did — vote for Hillary Clinton, helping her to a decisive victory in Pennsylvania.

Obama couldn’t be cleared

Published: Oct 14 2008, 10:44 PM · Updated: Oct 14 2008, 10:56 PM

By George H. Wittman

The lowest-ranking enlisted persons in the Armed Forces of the United States who are expected to handle sensitive matters in the many jobs involving classified equipment or written material must be investigated before obtaining their security clearance. Could Barack Obama gain such a clearance?

The stealth candidate

Published: Oct 13 2008, 11:26 PM · Updated: Oct 13 2008, 11:27 PM

Democrats assume Republicans are raising Obama’s many questionable relationships in a desperation effort to salvage the election. You might think this is splitting hairs, but I believe the reason is that these relationships scare the daylights out of us.

Roots of the financial crisis

Published: Oct 13 2008, 11:24 PM · Updated: Oct 14 2008, 12:17 AM

Anyone wanting to learn why America’s lending structure has collapsed need only read The New York Times article “Fannie Mae Eases Credit to Aid Mortgage Lending,” written by Stephen A. Holmes on Sept. 30, 1999.

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