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Editorial Board


| Friday, December 19th, 2014

Editorial: Regional nonprofits star in California rankings

Editorials, Opinion

Recent reporting by the website Charity Navigator gives a bit of insight into how well the best-run nonprofits in the area fare when compared to their peers in California and nationwide.

| Friday, December 12th, 2014

Editorial: Torture report takes important step forward

Editorials, Opinion

With more than a decade to reflect on what the wrongful detentions, wasted millions and lies told by the government to justify secret spending, at least now the American people have some idea of what the government did or didn’t do in the name of national security.

| Friday, December 5th, 2014

Editorial: Williams bill a small step in sorting out Isla Vista

Editorials, Opinion

Isla Vista, as Williams points out, is a one-square-mile area with 20,000 residents and the most heavily urbanized area within California that is not part of a city.

| Friday, November 28th, 2014

Editorial: Immigration reform misses the mark

Editorials, Opinion

The curious thing about the immigration reform initiatives launched by President Barack Obama this November is that they pretty much echo the steps California already has taken to acknowledge the role that illegal immigrants play in our economy.

| Friday, November 28th, 2014

Editorial: Ventura County schools unwrap academy effort

Editorials, Opinion

We hope that other districts up and down the Central Coast pay attention to what works — and what doesn’t work — as the Career Pathways program in Oxnard gets under way. It should hold important lessons for creating a 21st-century economy across our region.

| Friday, November 21st, 2014

Editorial: Justice for Alvaro

Editorials, Opinion

Alvaro Medrano, Sr. who, with owner Ken Riding, managed the La Vista Vineyard in Paso Robles, was confronted, beaten and killed by off-duty correctional officers on the streets of San Miguel on Sept. 7.

| Friday, November 21st, 2014

Editorial: Tuition hike won’t end calls for reform at UC

Editorials, Opinion

A not-so-stealthy issue in the debate over the University of California’s proposed tuition hikes is the growing economic gap between the system’s 10 campuses and the communities they serve.