Canada

Waterfowl season quickly approaching, nice weather and all

Despite summer-like daytime temperatures and with hardly a cloud in sight, many hunters are eagerly awaiting the opening bell for the state’s waterfowl season.It doesn’ ...

Another View: Canada/Obamacare: What’s in store for California?

The clock is ticking toward the full implementation of Obamacare in 2014. Yet Californians still have many questions about what it will mean for their healthcare. There are many u ...

New gun laws benefit tyrants

Our liberal legislature and attorney general should weigh cost versus effectiveness of firearms laws that might cross the line of “reasonable” limitations versus outright infr ...

Mountain bikers belong on road

I just read Gus Thomson’s piece in the Auburn Journal (March 11) about the railroad people leveling the illegal mountain biker track on its property. While I strongly support the ...

Make English official language

The reason claimed for delay of eviction action — that information was not provided in Spanish — brings up an issue that is increasingly important (“Bell Garden plans in limb ...

Community Portrait: Like his father and granddad, Vitas likes Auburn just fine

For over 120 years members of Fred Vitas’ family have lived in the Auburn area. That goes back a long way, and Vitas is part of the third generation to carry on his family’s na ...

Lightning McTeens: NASCAR drivers are younger than ever

Jessica Brunelli and Andrew Murray had their stock cars on the one-third-mile oval at All American Speedway on Thursday with two-time Late Model track champion Matt Scott, learning ...

Scam targets grandparents

About two years ago Gus Thomson wrote a story about the “Grandson in car wreck in Canada” scam that was sweeping the country at the time. I wrote to him because we had nearly b ...

Give us a single payer system

Regarding rate hikes for California citizens which started on July 1. These hikes by Aetna, Health-Net, Anthem Blue and Blue Cross could go up by as much as 17 percent. I am so ha ...

Streamlining regulations essential to bring back jobs

California’s jobs crisis continues to hit families in our communities especially hard. One of the main reasons why job-creating businesses have been leaving our state and so ma ...