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Our View: Budget balancing needs to be reality-based

While the rest of the nation buzzes with the news of the alleged scandal surrounding the Facebook stock offering, residents in California have every reason to be more concerned about what the sliding stock price might...

 

Our View: Higher education is needed in the Valley

Imperial County is toward the bottom among California counties in the college-going rate and is in nearly the same place statewide regarding the percentage of people with bachelor’s and advanced college degrees.

 

A Reader Writes: Taxpayer money should be spent on our children

I am responding to an article in the Imperial Valley Press on May 19 by Staff Writer Silvio Panta to clarify some issues discussed in the story concerning Imperial Superintendent Lisa Tabarez’s claim that the...

Our View: "Shared sacrifice for all"

“Shared sacrifice for all”; that should be the new motto etched in granite atop the Capitol rotunda in Sacramento. But it won’t be, because it’s not a concept that we believe even exists in the...

 

More Editorials

Our View: Crying wolf goes only so far

Californians are starting to lose faith in Gov. Brown, and fast. At least we are.

Our View: Thinking through the Calexico walkout

Nearly two days after students in the Calexico Unified School District stayed out of class Monday in protest of the layoffs of more than 80 district teachers, reports have come back to the newspaper that as many as 700...

From the Right: 'If only government could go out of government!'

The greatest failure of the Obama presidency is his belief that government can solve all the problems facing our country. A most telling statistic came my way this week. Since 1900, no president has had fewer members...

Our View: Murals help restore Valley's cultural pride

Even the Imperial Valley’s most ardent supporters probably would concede our area could be a prettier. It doesn’t do a lot for our self-image to look around and see so much that is scruffy or worn down.