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6A Daily News – Thursday, March 28, 2013 Opinion ment's generosity, the rich get their share. Who got the bailout money, Editor: homeless people or Wall-Street The city of Corning's Based tycoons? Transportation Planning a Grant In all of human history the application for a Bike majority have seldom if and Pedestrian Transever been right about portation Improvement anything. So if you base Your Plan which primary your voting preferences goal is to increase on poles you are conmobility in a safe mantributing to the problem, ner by having nonnot the solution. Conmotorized travel throughout the trary to the babble of conservative City of Corning and regional link- blowhards liberals hate fraud, ages. This an integral component waste, and abuses just as much as of smart growth and social equity anyone else. In all their analyses which is the centralized control of of our financial woes why do every aspect of urban and rural Republicans ignore the trillions life: energy and water use, hous- wasted on a war promulgated on ing, population control, social jus- lies? Besides all of that our econtice, transportation cars, and eco- omy and that of the whole world is nomic activity. This is the United based on debt notes not an honest Nations System Agenda 21. Do to goodness tangible specie like the people know what's in store gold or silver. Most of the real for them? Main Streets will soon "money" is locked away in Rothbe walking and bike streets with schild's vault and the vaults of his no car traffic. Do they get to vote favorite asskissing associates. on this or are they being told what Conservatives yearn to turn is involved with this grant? back to pre-Johnson days before June Cooper, Red Bluff food stamps and Medicaid. I too long for the bygone days when farmers grew fruits and vegetables instead of untested lab experiEditor: I find it a bit ironic how many ments and when beaver urine wassuccessful business people not n't used as "natural flavoring." Do only use other people's money to a Google search for the word get what they want; brag about it, "Castoreum," You may be and even write how to books about shocked at what you learn. Finally renewable energy it: but when the government uses sources may not be as cost effitax money to give some assistance to the poor using other people's cient now because of the enormoney all of a sudden becomes a mous amount of subsidies given to grievous crime. Poor folks aren't traditional suppliers, but they the only recipients of our govern- aren't near as deadly and they don't waste tons of the most pre- Agenda 21 DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U NTY S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Turn Greg Stevens, Publisher gstevens@redbluffdailynews.com Chip Thompson, Editor editor@redbluffdailynews.com Editorial policy The Daily News opinion is expressed in the editorial. The opinions expressed in columns, letters and cartoons are those of the authors and artists. Letter policy The Daily News welcomes letters from its readers on timely topics of public interest. All letters must be signed and provide the writer's home street address and home phone number. Anonymous letters, open letters to others, pen names and petition-style letters will not be allowed. Letters should be typed and cannot exceed two double-spaced pages or 500 words. 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The reforms include dramatic cuts in the number of administrators and cuts in their pay and benefits. Online classes for many of the basic liberal arts courses needed for graduation cuts costs.. Limits on the amount of college debt offered by private and government loans, to match the expected graduation salaries cuts costs. More masters degree candidates teaching freshmen and sophomore courses cuts costs. Reducing benefits to match civilian levels cuts costs, Fewer tenured professors cuts costs.. Better classroom utilization through full summer class loads cuts costs. Reducing loan availability for those taking fewer than 16 credit hours cuts costs. The value of a degree significantly exceeds the cost, provided the career choice is in fields with jobs. There are few with loans who cannot pay off their debt during their first 10 years of employment. The challenge is reforms to reduce the actual cost to taxpayers, for a four year degree. The solution is not more tax money thrown at the problem. Joseph J. Neff, Corning Sequestration Editor: President Obama wants sequestration "to hurt." Close down White House tours, take financial help away from the military, anything that happens, it's because of sequestration. Harry Reid's stupid remark saying the seven marines were killed because of sequestration. I cannot believe how silly and stupid this man is. Sequestration was Obama's idea, Congress got raises, Obama has and continues to spend millions a year traveling, but now that the Republicans won't give in to more spending, everything is their fault. Like Romney killed that man's wife. How do you deal with such stupidity? But this is Harry's MO. Get those lies out there, some will believe it. I guess Diane Feinstein is disappointed with ole' Harry. Good. I hope she gives him both barrels, but he never tires of lying. Anything for his party. This man is a disgrace to our country. Bernice Cressy, Cottonwood Your officials STATE ASSEMBLYMAN — Dan Logue, 1550 Humboldt Road, Ste. 4, Chico, CA 95928, 530-895-4217 STATE SENATOR — Jim Nielsen, 2635 Forest Ave., Ste. 110, Chico, CA 95928, (530) 879-7424, senator.nielsen@senate.ca.gov GOVERNOR — Jerry Brown, State Capitol Bldg., Sacramento, CA 95814; (916) 445-2841; Fax (916) 5583160; E-mail: governor@governor.ca.gov. U.S. REPRESENTATIVE — Doug LaMalfa 506 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515, 202-2253076. U.S. SENATORS — Dianne Feinstein (D), One Post Street, Suite 2450, San Francisco, CA 94104; (415) 393-0707. Fax (415) 3930710. Barbara Boxer (D), 1700 Montgomery St., Suite 240, San Francisco, CA 94111; (510) 286-8537. Fax (202) 224-0454. Commentary Somewhere between whipper and ginger snaps The youngest member of our newsroom turned to me the other day and asked, "Do I have to dial anything to call long distance?" "Like do you have hit 9 like it's a hotel," I said back, trying to understand the question. "No, do I have to hit 1 first before I call a number with a different area code," he said. A smile crept across my face. "I just haven't made a long distance call from a land line in a long time," he tried to explain, noticing my pending laughter. I instantly went to tell the story to the oldest person in the newsroom, assuming he'd get the same laugh out of a young person's frustration of dealing with our ancient communication system of having to dial 1. "I don't understand," the elder statesman said. "He has to dial 1 when he uses his cell phone doesn't he?" "No," I replied. "Cell phones dial 1 automatically for you if the number needs it. That's why it's funny." He didn't get it. Jeesh, it seemed as if I was stuck in the middle, a technology translator if you will between the older and the younger. Young enough to still be hanging onto the cusp of advancing technology, but yet old enough to remember those predigital days. An hour later the whole thought was cemented in my head. I was shopping at the grocery store when an elderly woman approached my wife with a simple question. "How do I open this phone," she said, showing what was nothing more than first generation flip phone in her wrinkled palm. My wife took the phone and opened it. "Thanks, I didn't want to break it," she said in such a sweet grandma way that the scent of ginger snaps lofted in the air. If us 30-somethings are technology translators, I know the two thought processes we are trying to communicate to. There's the Granny Gingers of the world, who approach technology with fear they will break it. Then there's the young bucks, who get frustrated if technology doesn't do everything for them. Like I said I'm somewhere in the middle. One of my biggest pet peeves are people who send everything with "docx" file extensions. One of my biggest fears is the day I have to turn to someone younger than me to be my technology translator. Judging from my hatred of CAPTCHAs that day's coming soon. Whether you know what that acronym is, I can probably place on you one side or the other of my technological divide. As I was getting ready to write Technology is a fast-moving this column, one of the paper's regular contributors asked me what I train, but it's one you can jump onto at anytime. was working on. My 1-year-old niece uses an As I explained the phone stories, iPad. she brought up watches. She'll grow up with"People just don't out any idea the steps it wear them anymore," took to get there. she said. "Everyone has I remember my uncle the time on their cell teaching my grandmother phone." how to use her VCR-Plus So true. so she wouldn't miss "All I asked my wife for a My Children." watch when we first got A few years later I was married. I was extremeexplaining to angry readly picky and said I wanters, why the paper no ed it to be analog with longer carried VCR-Plus Roman numerals. listings since DVRs made She found a rather Rich them obsolete. nice one and I wore it Now commercials are constantly. telling me my DVR is A few weeks ago she obsolete and that I need asked whatever hapone that is wireless and can record pened to it. Well what happened is the bat- up to five shows at one time. I'd change the channel, but I tery died years ago and I never missed wearing it cause I always can't figure out how to change the had my phone to tell me what time battery in the back of the remote. It looks like you just push it in it is. The only reason I would wear it and it should pop open, but it feels now would be if I dressed up for a like it's going to break. Wait, what, NOOOOO! wedding or a funeral. Even then it's only purpose would be ornamental, like the giant clock Flavor Flav wears around his Rich Greene can be reached by neck. I doubt young guys ask for telephone at 527-2151, ext. 109. Those calling from outside the watches for presents anymore. I wonder if they even know how area code, should dial 1 followed by 5-3-0. If you need further to tell time by them. Actually the better question assistance press 0 for the operator or call for your grandson. might be, should they? Greene