Letters.Bad Vibes I hate to break it to Mark Lacter ("Don't Move, It's Not That Bad' April 7), but it is bad, it is getting worse and many, many businesses in California are starting to cut back, shut down or move. I have lived in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern , the Central Valley and Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . I am already planning my exit from the state. The future does not look promising. It looks ugly. This is not due to the general economic conditions determined by the marketplace but by the boys and girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. in Sacramento. Senate President John Burton John Burton is the name of:
Jackie Goldberg -- teacher, Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. board member, Assemblywoman, D-Los Angeles -- has always spent OPM See Oracle Process Manufacturing. (other people's money), which makes it easy for her to submit bills that someone else has to pay for. With her brilliant mind, there is no limit to what she might come up with!: How many employees did Gray Davis add to the state payroll in the last four years? How many raises did he give employees? How many new programs did he add? Another government. lifer lif·er n. Slang 1. a. A prisoner serving a life sentence. b. One who makes a career in one of the armed forces. 2. Informal A right-to-lifer. . State Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced the other day that we have a workers, compensation crisis. Hello! Where .the hell has he been? Where is the money going to. come from for outrageous increases in workers' compensation workers' compensation, payment by employers for some part of the cost of injuries, or in some cases of occupational diseases, received by employees in the course of their work. insurance and liability insurance? The paid Family Leave Act? The increased payout for unemployment insurance? Increased fees to cover government programs and bureaucracies? Kenneth Keller Valencia Islam and Women I'm perplexed by Andrew Ferguson's commentary, "Can Muslim World Respect Rights?" (April 14). His assertion of a differential in attitudes toward women leaders between Western and. Muslim countries simply isn't true. How does he explain the fact that four predominantly Muslim countries -- Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia - have elected women as heads of state? Only the U.K., Canada (briefly) and the Scandinavian countries have had female heads of state in the West. Though sometimes flawed (as it is here), democracy functions in these and other predominantly Muslim countries. Iran's vice president is a woman; there are more women in the Iranian Parliament than in the U.S. Senate. Secondly, the concepts of private property, education and commerce have existed among Muslim women since the earliest times. The Prophet Mohammed's first wife ran her own trading business. Education for all was an emphasis among Muslims of old. If there are men today who subjugate sub·ju·gate tr.v. sub·ju·gat·ed, sub·ju·gat·ing, sub·ju·gates 1. To bring under control; conquer. See Synonyms at defeat. 2. To make subservient; enslave. women and blame it on Islam, we should not follow suit. I wonder how the U.S. would fare if we evaluated women's views on access to education and quality health care here. Shafia A. Mir Culver City |
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