Saturday's Valley Voices section has commentaries by Armen Bacon on a trip she took to New York with a life-long friend; Katherine Andes laments the end of a fun summer vacation with her daughter; and Homer Gee Greene Jr. recounts the history of the Old Administration Building at Fresno City College.
Sunday's Vision section contains a commentary by George F. Gruner, retired executive editor of The Bee, on the 30th anniversary of The Bee Four. Gruner and three colleagues went to jail in a landmark freedom of the press case that drew international attention. Jim Boren, editor of the editorial pages, discusses why politicians would prefer to meddle in public education, rather than doing their own jobs well. Victor Davis Hanson writes that the building of democracy in the Mideast is messy but better than no democracy at all.
The Sunday editorials analyze the Valley's challenge to improve wages and criticize the Bush administration's cheap shots at folks who disagree with the war strategy.
The Valley's Top 10 list contains Fall TV Shows we'd like to see, including "West Side Worry," a gripping drama about land retirement and "Desperate Housebuyers," tawdry lives spent inside the real estate bubble. Don C. Craib is our letter writer of the week. Blogging Across America has items that address Bag Lady Syndrome, which is a common axient among women that they will end up on the streets; Portland, Oregon's solution to the homeless problem called Dignity Village and the possibility that photography is no longer a reliable source of evidence.
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