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For schools, the answer to guns isn’t more guns

I’m a firm believer that well-trained police officers can save lives in any crisis situation—the multiple tragedies we’ve experienced these past few months, from Newtown to Boston, proved this beyond a doubt.   And when it comes to protecting our kids against unknown danger, it’s easy to think that more cops and more guns are the

Opinion

‘Big Soda’ takes aim at local ballots — and health

Big Soda spent big bucks. That’s how it defeated ballot measures to create soda taxes in two California towns.

 

In Richmond, in the Bay Area, and in El Monte, east of Los Angeles, the measures would have added a penny-an-ounce tax on soda. Had the taxes passed, they were projected to raise millions of

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