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A Memorial Day to remember

Another summer is upon us, as marked by our upcoming three-day weekend. No doubt, there’ll be lots of department store sales and plenty of backyard…
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Searing lessons of the riots

It was several hours after the Rodney King verdicts and the city had yet to exhale. Shocked by the police acquittals, I headed to First…
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Homeless team gets to work

In a tucked-away conference room in the Hall of Administration on Wednesday, history was being made. Years of splintered efforts were giving way to a…
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Tough times, good partners

For the past several years, all of our county labor unions have gone without a pay raise. In the case of our sheriff’s deputies, firefighters,…
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Thoughts on a rock star

During the next week, you’ll surely see lots of pictures of a huge red contraption hauling a shrink-wrapped boulder along the streets of four counties,…
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It starts at the top

Philip Browning is one of the smartest and most able public administrators on the local government scene anywhere in America. We just named him to…
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A public comment of my own

For the past several weeks, a lot has been said and written about my proposal to modify the amount of time each member of the…
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Affordable housing still matters

Redevelopment agencies may have begun with noble ideals. But all too often in recent years they have devolved into slush funds for insiders—not to mention…
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Flames can’t match burning spirit

Every now and then, a crime spree spreads through our communities that it is particularly hard to fathom, so senseless and random that it catches…
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