On Saturdays, The Bee turns its Op-Ed page over to local readers. This week we have three nice tributes to fathers. Katherine Andes of Hanford tells a poignant story of her imperfect, yet perfectly loveable father. Laura Pando tells about her dad's outstanding career in education and Jeff Hollis praises his father's professional and personal accomplishments.
The editorial page Saturday addresses the air-quality measures taken -- or not taken -- by the dairy industry; we praise President Bush for preserving Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument and rant and rave in the weekly Thumbs up, thumbs down commentary.
In Vision Sunday, Bee Executive Editor Betsy Lumbye explains The Bee's process for selecting front page stories and extends an invitation to readers to be guest editors at the daily news meetings. In our cover story, Nell Bernstein reports that one in 10 American children has a parent under criminal justice supervision -- many for non-violent drug offenses. As incarceration touches the lives of more and more Americans, a backlash against the drug war may be brewing. Bernstein is the author of “All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated” (The New Press, 2005).
On the Opinion page, we talk about the importance of physical education classes; press the point that we must learn lessons from the ongoing government disaster called Katrina relief and discuss the importance of dads in the home.
Our columnists add wide array of topics to the mix. Maureen Dowd finds that Old Media and New Media aren't so far apart after all during a conference in Las Vegas. Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and historian, applies the lessons of Socrates to illegal immigration. Hint: Soc would say you can't have it both ways. Ruben Navarrette, a sophomore father, discovers that the job's getting harder all the time.
The Valley's Top 10 list gives reasons people supersize their meals.
The letter writer of the week is Bryan Galt, who holds one of the Valley's more enviable titles -- beverage manager at Chukchansi Gold Casino.
On Monday, the editorials cover downtown Wi-Fi and nutrition for the poor, along with brief hits on Juneteenth and new tourism classes. Don't miss a column by Leonard Pitts Jr. titled "Ann Coulter: She's tall, blonde and nasty." If you prefer Mona Charen, she criticizes the media's reporting on Gaza and Haditha.
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