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Sharks claim the only quick start

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:41:28 MDT

ATOP TODAY'S TO-DO list are (a) Read the following notes, but (b) not while roaming Blackhawk Country Club's hilly terrain at the LPGA's Longs Drugs Challenge.

Female kicker scoring points for Antioch

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:28:27 MDT

Just for kicks, Butterfield joined team and she's glad she did.

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Joan's World: Natalie Wood movie and cute dogs

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:17:09 MDT

Dear Joan:It may have been in the late 1970s or early 1980s when Natalie Wood starred in a movie where she was a well-to-do housewife turned bank robber.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Sarah Six Pack is going stale

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:39:36 MDT

MAYBE YOU remember "Dave." It was a 1993 movie starring Kevin Kline as Dave Kovic, an everyday guy who happens to be a dead ringer for the president. When the chief executive is stricken, his aides secretly recruit Dave to fill in for him.

Your Turn: There was no emergency surrounding the beavers

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:11:41 MDT

WAS THERE "an emergency" to justify the city of Martinez's surprise proposal and council decision to spend up to half a million taxpayer dollars to shore up the creek bank outside Bertola's Restaurant, avoiding an environmental impact report and meaningful stakeholder input?

Cut out political dirty tricks

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:11:10 MDT

DEMOCRACY IS ensured through the ability of qualified individuals to seek elected office and the public's access to candidates. Sadly, core issues of the true work to be accomplished by the policymaker are seldom debated by candidates.

Your Turn: Governor right to veto AB 1945

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:10:59 MDT

The governor was right to veto AB 1945. The legislation originally created an independent panel of arbitrators and experts to rule on a health plan or rescission and set tougher rules for the health plan's initial review of applicants, but trial lawyers worked over legislators and succeeded in

Your Turn: Mobile sources of air pollution must be attacked

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:10:51 MDT

This newspaper's recent editorial about East Oakland ("Time to clear the air," Oct. 29) rightly makes the point that there is a need to improve the air quality in that community.

Sunne McPeak: Securing California's water future - now is the time for action

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:10:41 MDT

THE WATER SUPPLY for all of California is in crisis. Our California Delta — a signature feature of Contra Costa's environment and the heart of the estuary that defines the Bay Area as a region — is in serious jeopardy and cannot be sustained as we know it today.

George F. Will: Bloomberg's attack on term limits filled with irony

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:42:19 MDT

Unimpressed by Charles de Gaulle's droll observation that the graveyards are full of indispensable men, Michael Bloomberg, New York City's 108th mayor, has decided that he is indispensable.

Talented Sharks face uncertainty

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:22:07 MDT

New coach Todd McLellan sets out on season of discovery.

Sharks nearly perfect in beating Anaheim in opener

A high-tech free-for-all this election year

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:24:14 MDT

Tina Fey, Paris Hilton leave their mark on campaign as social media breaks new ground in election year..

Vote: Is social media making you politically aware?

Gary Bogue: Keep your pots out of my pots -- please

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 21:49:05 MDT

Squirrels have been digging up this lady's pots and her herb garden, and she needs help. Gary has a rather stinky solution.

Willows' 'Lying in State' offers silly election hilarity

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:26:32 MDT

Willows Theatre's slapstick farce 'Lying in State' has it all: big laughs, casket mix-ups and stripper politics

Thomas Sowell: Taking a look at the real Barack Obama

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:21:19 MDT

CRITICS OF Sen. Barack Obama make a strategic mistake when they talk about his "past associations." That just gives his many media defenders an chance to counter-attack against "guilt by association.