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Guest Commentary


| Friday, March 20th, 2015

Op/ed: ‘Leadership bills,’ a plan to get the Senate working again

Op/Eds, Opinion

Instead of a budget-based reconciliation, Congress needs a superbill the majority party could use as a filibuster-exempt legislative vehicle once a year.

| Friday, March 20th, 2015

Op/ed: PG&E exec answers critics, says Diablo Canyon is safe, secure

Op/Eds, Opinion

Our March 13 editorial raised questions about PG&E’s recent seismic assessment of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant near Avila Beach. In response to coverage in the Business Times and other media, PG&E has offered the following commentary.

| Friday, March 13th, 2015

Op/ed: The underground economy cheats legitimate firms

Op/Eds, Opinion

It is time that incentives for business success are aligned with the interests of honest employers and their workers.

| Friday, March 6th, 2015

Op/ed: I’m told I’m lucky — and the harder I work, the luckier I am

Op/Eds, Opinion

By Lisa Spiwak On March 17 we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, which is also a celebration of luck of sorts. We will search out four leaf clovers and little green leprechauns to bring us good luck and hopefully to find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. As lovely as these celebrations Read More →

| Friday, March 6th, 2015

Op/ed: Letting taxpayers off the hook for subsidies: a case of moral hazard

Op/Eds, Opinion

American political culture has morphed from a ‘can do’ attitude to an ‘it’s easier to kick the can down the road’ approach to decision-making.

| Friday, March 6th, 2015

Letters to the editor: Oxnard Metrolink collision

Letters to the Editor, Opinion

With California traffic congestion becoming more and more of a problem, the train is going to be a vital mode of transportation and the infrastructure of public train transportation must be improved.

| Friday, February 27th, 2015

Op/ed: Health care reform is ultimately a question of justice

Op/Eds, Opinion

The courts aren’t justice but merely symbols of our desire to be just — yet so many of our moral issues end up adjudicated there.