EDITORIAL WEEK IN REVIEW.Here are highlights from some of our more important editorials this past week. To read the editorials in full, please visit our Web site at www.dailynews.com. Wake-up call At the rate City Hall is going, the cost of living in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. will soon be so high that only the rich and the hoodlums living off the drug trade will be able to afford to pay their water and sewer bills. Passive reaction How many people must die before state and county authorities jump into action against the West Nile virus West Nile virus, microorganism and the infection resulting from it, which typically produces no symptoms or a flulike condition. The virus is a flavivirus and is related to a number of viruses that cause encephalitis. ? Reform overkill overkill Vox populi An excess of anything As tempting as it is, demoting the state Legislature A state legislature may refer to a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system. The following legislatures exist in the following political subdivisions: Obeying the law The gay marriages in San Francisco earlier this year were clearly part of a publicity stunt for new Mayor Gavin Newsom, and it can be no surprise that the state Supreme Court voided void·ed adj. Heraldry Having the central area cut out or left vacant, leaving an outline or narrow border: a voided lozenge. them. Unfortunately, the court did not help further the national debate about same-sex marriages. |
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