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November 26, 1995 | RALPH BIGELOW, Ralph Bigelow coordinates a newsletter for the Concord Coalition of Orange County. He is a former dean of admissions at Cal State Fullerton and lives in Placentia. His e-mail address is rbig@aol.com. and
"We are unable institutionally to do what has to be done." That statement in March, 1992, by then-Sen. Warren Rudman (R--N.H.), in announcing his retirement, got my attention. He was referring to Congress' inability to address what he saw as the overriding issue: successive annual federal deficits of more than $300 billion, piling up a federal debt of more than $4 trillion--and now nearly $5 trillion.
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November 19, 1995 | G. J. (PETE) FIELDING, G. J. (Pete) Fielding is a research professor in the Transportation Science Program at UC Irvine. From 1983-89 he was director of the Institute of Transportation Studies for the University of California system. and
Planning by ballot box is unwise. Advocacy groups distort evidence, overlook crucial effects and ignore alternatives. Measure A suffered all these defects. It narrowly passed last year and requires a commercial airport at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station. Planning is based on flawed economic assumptions and mistakenly focused upon an airport while neglecting options that could produce more jobs with fewer undesirable side effects.
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November 12, 1995 | RABBI MARK S. MILLER, Rabbi Mark S. Miller has been spiritual leader of Temple Bat Yahm in Newport Beach for 19 years
During the week that Jews were reading the portion in the Torah that introduces the biblical patriarch Yitzhak, or Isaac, the Jewish people and the world bade farewell to the Yitzhak of our time, a patriarch of modern Israel. In March of 1992, Gen. Yitzhak Rabin was in the midst of the campaign to regain the leadership of the Jewish state. Amazingly, he accepted my invitation to address my congregation in Newport Beach and flew from Jerusalem for that event.
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November 12, 1995 | JACQUELINE PRICE, Jacqueline Price is president of the National School Public Relations Assn. and director of public information for Capistrano Unified School District. and
This week, people throughout Orange County are celebrating public education. It's American Education Week, a time each year when we reaffirm our democracy's commitment to affording every child--regardless of his or her special needs, gender, race, ethnicity, religion or wealth--equal opportunity to benefit from a free, public education.
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November 5, 1995 | SAL SAPIEN, Sal Sapien is a Stanton city councilman and former mayor. and
As a longtime resident of Orange County and as a local elected official, I would be the last person to advocate or defend taxation or fee increases that would impact the pockets of my city's residents. But in life, there are always two sides to any story, and, of course, there is another side to this story that is of interest to cities across Orange County.
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October 29, 1995 | LARRY AGRAN and STEPHEN C. SMITH, Larry Agran is executive director and general counsel of CityVote, and former mayor of Irvine. Stephen C. Smith is a public policy consultant and a former Irvine budget analyst
Irvine residents should take a special pride in UC Irvine scientist Sherwood Rowland's winning the Nobel Prize for chemistry. Not only is Rowland one of their own, but their city government played a seminal role in drawing global attention to the environmental hazards caused by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which he discovered 20 years ago. In 1989, long before saving the ozone layer became fashionable, Irvine became the first city in the world to adopt an ordinance restricting the release of CFCs into the atmosphere.