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. Red-hot Valley Nationally, the economy is growing nicely, and in California and 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. County, it's stable. But in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , it's red-hot, and that's no accident. Trash and reality At last, local government in greater Los Angeles seems to be getting a glimmering of understanding about an obvious truth of modern existence: Garbage dumps and neighborhoods don't mix. Baca's baby One year later, L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca Leroy David Baca (b. May 27 1942, East Los Angeles, California) is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. is pleading poverty, encouraging county voters to consider the same tax plan they rejected last year. Only this time, Baca's effort isn't merely misguided, it's pathetic. The birthright birth·right n. 1. A right, possession, or privilege that is one's due by birth. See Synonyms at right. 2. A special privilege accorded a first-born. fight That the birthright clause to the 14th Amendment of U.S. Constitution has come under attack from certain immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. opponents is not surprising, but unfortunate. |
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