We know you've seen plenty of lists about the biggest news stories of the year. Here's our final editorial of the year in which we list what we saw as the most inspiring stories, some local, some global, of 2010. Let us know what we left out.
Our latest online survey of Press Democrat letter writers and other readers shows surprisingly strong support for many of the major ideas the president expressed in his State of the Union address on Wednesday – even the development of new “safe, clean nuclear power plants.” The president’s discussion about “opening new offshore [...]
No, this speech won’t be remembered for any great policy initiatives. But I was struck by the president’s tone, particularly his feistiness. He did not sound like a president who got his hat handed to him in Massachusetts last week. He took his “share of the blame” for not communicating [...]
Call it the “reset” address. President Barack Obama devoted most of his State of the Union to appealing to the middle – independent voters who delivered his landslide in 2008 and have since shown signs of buyer’s remorse. He was personal, describing some of the 10 letters from citizens he’s [...]
The ground just shook in Washington. Associated Press has just projected Scott Brown as the winner of the special election for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. CNN says Brown just received the concession call from Democrat Martha Coakley. This is a stunning upset. The count isn't even going to be that close. Two big questions: [...]
Were the major news organizations caught napping on the Senate special election in Massachusetts today? We're wondering. Polls closed back East at 5 p.m. Pacific time, and we turned on our TV to find that none of the major networks or other news organizations were doing any exit polling. As Wolf Blitzer on CNN [...]
The people of our readership area appear evenly split over the president's decision to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, according to our latest online Press Democrat Editorial Board survey. We also asked readers their opinion about the president's decision to set a date of July 2011 for bringing some [...]
President Barack Obama was reaching for the middle of the political spectrum in his speech at West Point and, by and large, he hit the right notes: -- “We did not ask for this fight.” -- “Afghanistan is not lost, but for several years it has moved backwards.” -- “We [...]
Paul Gullixson
Jim Sweeney
This blog is written by Press Democrat editorial writers Paul Gullixson and Jim Sweeney.