Think John McCain will seal the votes of senior citizens simply because they may share the aches and wrinkles of age? Not so fast. ...more

November 2, 2008

Days of heavy rains around the Grand Canyon caused an earthen dam to fail Sunday and created flooding that forced helicopters to pluck hundreds of residents and campers and deliver them to safety. No injuries were immediately reported. ...more

August 18, 2008

A crane that was removing steel beams to dismantle an old river bridge became overloaded and toppled Wednesday, killing one worker and injuring another. ...more

July 31, 2008

Our governor is staged to sign orders to execute five who are on death row. If he were to sign five each day, five days per week, in only about 17 weeks the backlog could be eliminated. There is a down side to this, however. There is perhaps one chance in a thousand that an innocent person would be executed. Absolutely nothing done by human beings is perfect, only degrees of perfection. ...more

July 17, 2008

For all the doom and gloom about water in California, here's a surprising truth: California has enough water to meet its needs today and tomorrow without new dams, peripheral canals or catastrophic costs. But there is a rub. It will take political will and better management. ...more

October 30, 2007