On Saturday's Valley Voices page, fiction writer Larry Hill gives a detailed memoir of the Old Fresno Hofbrau, Armen D. Bacon of Fresno County Schools talks about her "accidental visitor" from France, and Albert Valencia of Fresno State discusses an inspiring mentoring program at Fresno State.
In Sunday's Bee, the Vision cover carries a provocative essay written by a feminist women's history instructor, Linda Hirschman, on why women haven't had a more profound effect on elections historically. If you are expecting. Victor Davis Hanson suggests the U.S. keep picking at Iran's thin shell of a government and Thomas Friedman of the New York Times discusses the relationship of market prices in Russia to the freedoms people enjoy.
On the Op-ed page, the question of a nuclear power plant in Fresno is debated. The affirmative argument is assumed by John Hutson, who chaired the Fresno Utilities Commission, and M. Aslam Lone, Ph.D. of Fresno, a consultant in nuclear and radiation physics. The opposing position is written by Mark Stout, who handles major accounts for Unlimited Energy Solar Solutions.
Jim Boren, editor of the editorial pages, says the health care insurance mess will never get fixed because the political leadership would rather work on spanking bills than anger any of the powerful special interests by passing a reform package that would require everyone to share the financial burden for a better system.
The Valley's Top 10 lists things that Rudy Guiliani might have said while attending the World Ag Expo in Tulare. One of them is, "When I said I was pro-choice, I meant paper or plastic."
Enjoy!
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