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. Warning signs For leaders in Los Angeles and throughout California, the lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina raise the same question that many of us have wrestled with personally: Are we ready? Whither whith·er adv. To what place, result, or condition: Whither are we wandering? conj. 1. To which specified place or position: the MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. ? Ten years after agreeing to the consent decree A settlement of a lawsuit or criminal case in which a person or company agrees to take specific actions without admitting fault or guilt for the situation that led to the lawsuit. A consent decree is a settlement that is contained in a court order. , MTA officials ought to be able to defend their policies in court. If not, then they don't deserve their jobs, and we might as well disband dis·band v. dis·band·ed, dis·band·ing, dis·bands v.tr. To dissolve the organization of (a corporation, for example). v.intr. 1. the MTA. Pander To pimp; to cater to the gratification of the lust of another. To entice or procure a person, by promises, threats, Fraud, or deception to enter any place in which prostitution is practiced for the purpose of prostitution. now, pay later The biggest problem with the November special election is what's not on the ballot: pension reform. Without some remedy, a pension time bomb could rock California. Policy breakdown Illegal immigration has increased and human slavery is cropping up in neighborhoods all over California. These disturbing trends show that the nation's immigration policy equals no policy at all. |
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