September 6, 2010 The Drug Enforcement Administration is seeking Ebonics translators to interpret wire-tapped conversations. Critics fear the move by a federal agency could set a precedent. But...

September 6, 2010 I grew up as a science-fiction nerd, probably the biggest one in the borough of Queens. Yearly subscription to Asimov's Science...

This is the continued toll that the Great Recession is taking on Bay Area communities: We've seen Vallejo declare bankruptcy. The city of San Carlos is in the process of outsourcing its police...

As many of us gather for parades, barbecues and festivities in honor of the many men and women - past and present - who toil day in and day out in hopes of a better life, let us not forget the 31...

Isn't it absolutely stunning that only two years after essentially burying the GOP and crowing over how they'll maintain power for a generation the democrats are fighting for their political lives...

The Indiana lawyer who led the federal ban on political spending by corporations in candidate elections is challenging Hawaii's campaign finance law. Hawaii's law is defensible for the most part,...

I applaud President Barack Obama's Aug. 13 affirmation of the right of Muslims "to practice their religion as anyone else in the country" and "to build a place of worship and a...

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Arapahoe County needs to stop fighting state requirements that it provide voters a place to drop off mail-in ballots at any polling place on Election Day. The state's 63 other counties have found a...

GUEST OPINION For most Americans, the Labor Day weekend will be a welcome reprieve from the nine-to-five grind. But for nearly 15 million Americans, today is little more than a sad reminder they...

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Many have charged that President Obama's decision to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan 10 months from now is hampering our war effort. But now it's official. In a stunning...

Both Oakland Sheriff Michael Bouchard and a board member for the Michigan Medical Marijuana Association are asking state lawmakers for a clarification of state marijuana law. Confusion among users...

With Labor Day upon us, the media has been abuzz over a report that claims a lack of skilled tradesmen is the biggest challenge now facing employers around the world. The 2010 Talent Shortage Survey,...

Greens losing momentum The collapsing crusade for legislation to combat climate change raises a question: Has ever a political movement made so little of so many advantages? Its implosion has...

I am a physician-in-training in Baltimore and a recent graduate of the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. I am writing in response to the article "Study: Reform likely to help...

Jasmine Longmire, center, of Detroit, waits in line with job seekers while attending a job fair in Southfield, Mich., last month. Meanwhile, many corporations forced to adapt to shrunken consumer...

One of the protesting postal workers in downtown Detroit was quoted in the Aug. 25 story "Rally tries saving Sat. mail" as saying: "When the U.S. Postal Service was established by Congress in 1792,...

On July 8, a federal district judge in Massachusetts ruled that a 14-year-old federal law, the Defense of Marriage Act, is unconstitutional. DOMA was designed to protect states and federal programs...

WASHINGTON — As 56 million children return to the nation's 133,000 elementary and secondary schools, the promise of "reform" is again in the air. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has announced...

We have a choice come November — confidence over despair, hope over fear. Our current political leaders seem to thrive on stirring up anger and shaking confidence about our future. Today,...

In a rare show of bipartisanship last month, Congress approved a $600 million border-security bill to help cut off the flow of illegal immigrants. The bill is to be financed in part by doubling the...

In his Aug. 24 broadcast, Glenn Beck decreed that President Obama's religion is "not Christian. It's a perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ." As a fellow Latter-day Saint, may I plead with Mr....

I was embarrassed for Kathleen Parker as I read her column regarding Glenn Beck (Sept. 2). She has proven to me and hundreds of thousands (not tens of thousands she refers to) who attended Beck's...

The problem with Mike Enfield's logic ("Williams is wrong," Readers' Forum, Sept. 2) is right here: "The government did, or certainly could have, invested my money and increased the amount with...

The intricate task of recovery " (Aug. 16 double issue): A congressional budget analyst is quoted as saying, "[I]t's a choice between putting people back to work and cutting the deficit....

M ost Americans don’t actively dislike President Barack Obama; they just think he does not know how to bring the economy back to life. And that’s why the upcoming elections are going to...

Y ou own a business, maybe a restaurant. You’ve got a lot to worry about. You have to make sure the food is safe and tastes good, that the place is clean and appealing, that workers are...

A mericans are an industrious people. They like to work. And they are unhappy when they can’t - as shown with the unrest over the current 9.6 percent-plus unemployment, a rate many countries...

"labor negotiations." Their chief tool has been the campaign contribution, and the result has been corruption on a colossal scale. Teachers unions, for example, have purchased control of public...

. Dear China: I understand you've been feeling a bit down lately. Maybe I can help. I spent a year traveling the world, looking for the happiest countries. I know you're primarily in the export...

Re: "Time for Muni drivers to take the bus" and "They should be proud to use the system" (Letters, Sept. 2). The reasons so many of us drive to work are: 1. Most of us don't live in the city but in...