EDITORIAL WEEK IN REVIEW.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. Taxing behavior Proposition 13 was the right remedy for its time, but it's overdue OVERDUE. A bill, note, bond or other contract, for the payment of money at a particular day, when not paid upon the day, is overdue. 2. The indorsement of a note or bill overdue, is equivalent to drawing a new bill payable at sight. 2 Conn. 419; 18 Pick. for an update as part of a thoughtful and reasonable re-examination of California's entire tax structure. Enough is enough Before Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. board members decide to back the foolhardy fool·har·dy adj. fool·har·di·er, fool·har·di·est Unwisely bold or venturesome; rash. See Synonyms at reckless. [Middle English folhardi, from Old French fol hardi : idea of imposing a parcel tax on homeowners, they ought to take a lesson from the failed L.A. County half-percent sales-tax measure last year. Divided we fail From the rhetorical rhe·tor·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to rhetoric. 2. Characterized by overelaborate or bombastic rhetoric. 3. Used for persuasive effect: a speech punctuated by rhetorical pauses. pats on the back the governor and the Democratic leaders in the Legislature have given each other over coming to a compromise on the budget, observers might think that they actually solved the state's problems. United against terrorists Thursday's terror attack terror attack n → atentado (terrorista) terror attack n → attentato terroristico in London clearly shows us that, once again, Americans must care more about defeating our enemies than about defeating our political opponents. |
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