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- Letters to the editor: North Edition
The advent to a midterm or four-year election used to be called the “silly season” in politics because eager candidates would often resort to ego puffery concerning themselves or to personal jibes for their opponents.
- Letters to the editor: East Edition
It is campaign season and in some races dirty tricks have reached new lows. My late twin brother, Wendell Cutting, would be appalled at the unethical lengths the opposition to the current members of the Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District Governing Board is going to in order to defeat three honest, dedicated, hard-working community representatives in a nonpartisan race.
- Letters to the editor: South Edition
In a recent South County editorial it was disappointing to see the Chula Vista Elementary School District cast in a negative light. California schools and districts are measured by rigorous federal and state academic performance standards.
- Letters to the editor: City Edition
Regarding “With control of Congress at stake, an onslaught of negative ads looms” (A1, Oct. 30):
These negative ads need to cease. Television shouldn't be filled with constant ads of Democrats and Republicans attacking and blaming each other on political issues. There are other ways elections can be won.
- ELECTION 2006: THE PROPOSITIONS
Voters to Sacramento: Will spending improve our lives?
Voters will have a large say in the future direction of California when they go to the polls on Election Day to vote on a multibillion-dollar package of state infrastructure bonds.
- When the world runs out of seafood
Since the dawn of human civilization, people have eaten fish. And for most of the past 100,000 years, it has been plentiful. It isn't any longer.
- The return of Daniel Ortega
Daniel Ortega ruled Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990. He may do so again very soon. The leader of the Nicaraguan political party FSLN, better known as the Sandinistas, is no stranger to the spotlight – he went toe to toe for years with President Ronald Reagan or standing for president – he has done so in every election since being defeated in 1990 by Violeta Chamorro.
- DAVID IGNATIUS THE WASHINGTON POST
Shifting gears in the Middle East
Following next Tuesday's elections, President Bush will face some of the most difficult decisions of his presidency as he struggles to craft a strategy for dealing with the ruinous mess in Iraq. Bush will have to do what he has sometimes found hardest – which is to make a decisive choice among conflicting recommendations from his advisers.
- PETER SCHRAG THE SACRAMENTO BEE
GOP should look to Schwarzenegger
We can be pretty sure that Arnold Schwarzenegger will be re-elected governor next week, though it may take until January to be sure which Arnold will emerge: the in-your-face governor of 2005 or the remade collaborative-environmentalist of 2006. Given the success of the campaign, it will probably be the latter.
- If the Democrats control Congress
According to polls and pundits, voters will soon turn the keys to the House and possibly the Senate over to the Democrats. Less easy to forecast: what that would mean for foreign policy in general and the war in Iraq in particular.
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