On Nov. 5, Trish Regan, the anchor for CNBC’s ‘The Call,’ reported that some Wall Street firms had received significant doses of H1N1 vaccines. Goldman Sachs reportedly received 200 doses, and Citigroup received 1,200 doses. “I’m six weeks away from delivering twins, and I couldn’t get the H1N1 vaccine from my obstetrician or the hospit…
Read moreAaron Helmbrecht What do the GOP and newspapers have in common? Young people consider them both relics and a waste of natural resources. A recent Gallup poll shows the GOP has been bleeding supporters from almost every demographic group since 2001. But they are taking the biggest hit from college graduates and people 18 to 29 [...]…
Read moreMeg Whitman is the best candidate for governor in California. Whitman believes in better education, cutting spending by reducing the number of government workers, no more tax raises and promises to cut taxes for small business owners so they can expand. Whitman is smart (having graduated from Princeton and Harvard), driven, tough and has an excellent [...]…
Read moreThe average citizen has long been a part of not just consuming news, but also assisting the mainstream media in gathering and reporting it. Radio and television stations are always inviting their audiences to call in with tips and accounts of unfolding news events in their neighborhoods. Web sites like CNN’s iReport afford their contributors [...]…
Read moreTwo Northwest Airline pilots were recently suspended for missing their final destination by 150 miles. Their claim was that they were looking at their laptops and had the communications turned off. There were 144 passengers on the flight. The pilots distractions were risking the lives of those 144 people plus their own. They said [...]…
Read moreMarijuana legalization is an issue that has been present in California politics for years. Just now, however, it is coming to a head, as the possibility of its full legalization looms before us in 2010. Until recently, those politicians who outwardly supported marijuana legalization have been ignored or even discounted as “potheads” who then f…
Read moreCalifornia is finally taking the constant abuse of disabled placards more seriously as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a law implementing higher consequences for violators. This is only the first step toward eliminating the problem though. The truth is, searching for an open disabled parking spot takes patience and persistence today as so many pe…
Read moreFrom the calm and measured intelligent discourse of cable news to the hard hitting in-depth stories of the Associated Press, the debate is raging. Should we send more troops to Afghanistan? The debate is usually very narrowly defined: “Are there enough troops in Afghanistan to win?” or “If we send more troops is winning possible?” Assumi…
Read moreYesterday students gathered outside of the Oviatt Library to raise awareness about the Deaf community and audism. Audism is “the hearing way of dominating, restructuring, and exercising authority over the Deaf community.” Students and faculty got together to inform the CSUN community of the deaf culture around the world and that American Sign…
Read moreIn an unprecedented move, it was announced recently that the Obama administration would cut the salaries of 25 top executives of the seven largest banking firms in the country. For a presidential administration to propose wage control on a major company is a slippery slope toward government control. It’s an insult to the free market system. [...]…
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