Mike O’Donnell, Mattress Recycling Council: State and local leaders and solid waste companies should join the Bye Bye Mattress program to expand free mattress recycling to businesses and residents.
William L. Rukeyser, Davis writer: If the religions got out of the contract business and the state got out of the worship business, the validity of the religious ceremonies would be purely in the eyes of the couples, trios or whatever, their co-religionists and whatever gods they believed in.
That is a Solomonic solution that should make everybody happy.
Ethnic Studies should be a graduation requirement at California State Universities because racial literacy is a skill needed to achieve a just and functioning society.
John McManus and Noah Oppenheim, Golden State Salmon Association and Pacific Coast Federation of FIshermen’s Associations: Gov. Gavin Newsom should support state efforts to set new, science-based water diversion rules that increase protections for salmon and the Bay-Delta.
With older adults the fastest-growing segment of California’s homeless, expanding programs to help them must be a key part of state’s homelessness strategy.
Cynthia Rice, California Rural Legal Assistance: California’s Private Attorney General Act has helped Peruvian sheepherders, dairy workers, janitors and the state itself. Here’s how.
David Flanagan and Michele Steeb, Saint John’s Program for Real Change: California is its own worst enemy when It comes to homelessness. But here’s how the state can start making real change.
Re “California faces massive costs related to climate change. Oil industry must pay its fair share,” Sen. Scott Wiener, Feb. 26, 2020. Sen. Scott Wiener has the principle right in his commentary. Change the headline and Sen. Wiener might be writing about housing: California faces massive costs related to housing. Corporations must pay their fair […]
Sen. Ling Ling Chang, Diamond Bar Republican: California audit slammed the Lottery for failing to provide sufficient funds to public schools Chang’s legislation seeks to fix the problem.
Nancy Deutsch, University of Virginia Curry School of Education and Human Development's Youth-Nex Center: California’s law letting teenagers sleep an extra hour was a good first step. Now, Legislature should adopt an ‘agenda for adolescents’