Editorials

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• Cheers and jeers - 11/19/2009

  Cheers — to local police departments for involving schools, nonprofit organizations, churches and others in their efforts to address a growing gang problem.

• Raising a shield - 11/18/2009

  Under Oregon law, the government may not compel a news reporter to reveal the source of information used in a published news story or require the reporter to reveal unpublished information gathered...

• Politicizing the Fed? - 11/16/2009

  Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn., insists the ambitious draft financial regulation bill that he unveiled Tuesday is not about Fed-bashing.

• 'After further review ...' - 11/15/2009

  Barring an appeal to the Oregon Supreme Court, it appears the final obstacle to a new Walmart Supercenter where Miles Field used to be has been removed.

• Reform shouldn't trump rights - 11/14/2009

  Health care reform should not be pursued as a mission so impossible that it justifies restricting women's access to abortion.

• Questions worth asking - 11/13/2009

  Is there enough money to build it correctly?

• Cheers and jeers - 11/12/2009

  Cheers — to Bellview Elementary School teacher Craig Martin, for facilitating an Internet video linkup with a National Guard soldier in Iraq who is the father of one of his students.

• Because it's there - 11/11/2009

  Mountains have lured adventurous people for as long as there have been people.

• Health care reform, GOP-style - 11/10/2009

  Comparing the House Republican and Democratic health care bills is like comparing a mouse to an elephant.

• Extra credit - 11/9/2009

  Official unemployment now is above 10 percent, and about a third of the jobless have been out of work for at least six months.

• Defining danger down - 11/8/2009

  Of course Medford's middle schools pose dangers to students.

• Innocence lost - 11/7/2009

  Smug. We tend to be so smug about the protective walls we think, we hope and sometimes we only imagine, we have built around our children.

• Can't we just get along? - 11/6/2009

  The two-year squabble between Medford's two hospitals over a joint medical imaging service should lay to rest any misconceptions about the health care industry.

• Cheers and jeers - 11/5/2009

  Cheers — to the owners and staff of Rogue Creamery, who came to the aid of employee Poasa Galo after a tsunami devastated his native American Samoa and he couldn't reach his family.

• Much ado about very little - 11/4/2009

  Health care reform quiz: The so-called "public option" will (a) drive private insurance companies out of business and eventually force every American to enroll in a single-payer, government-run...

• How big is too big? - 11/3/2009

  In the ideal world of economics, firms that take excessive risks go bankrupt, their competitors pick up the pieces and the economy marches on. Some call it "creative destruction."

• Obama v. Fox News - 11/2/2009

  Oscar Wilde once described fox hunting as "the unspeakable in full pursuit of the inedible." What would he have said about Fox hunting? Perhaps "the ineffectual in full pursuit of the uncredible."

• Who's minding the store? - 11/1/2009

  Putting off maintenance and repairs, whether to your car, your home or to a public building, is likely to lead to even greater expense down the road.

• Playing catch-up - 10/31/2009

  .S. public health officials have predicted that a flu pandemic on the scale of 1918 would send 9.9 million of us to the hospital, put 1.