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<![CDATA[Your Turn: History wrong on Moraga-Orinda Fire Department]]>
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<![CDATA[As past president of the Orinda Association and having served on the Orinda Fire Protection and Emergency Services Advisory Committee in the mid-1990s, I feel compelled to respond to Janet Maiorana's statement in a recent letter to the editor regarding LAFCO.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Judy Shallat / Your Turn)]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:39:23 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Readers' Forum: Dems win and lose with Newsom out]]>
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<![CDATA[THE RACE for governor among Democrats started off with a flourish, with many leading Democrats throwing their hat in the ring. Now, however, with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom dropping out, only one candidate remains &mdash; Attorney General Jerry Brown.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Ben Tulchin / Guest Commentary)]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:39:19 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Readers' Forum: Life and health are what really matter]]>
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<![CDATA[IN THE slog to gain approval of a U.S. Congress whose rules and private funding sources are stacked against meaningful public action, the health care debate &mdash; begun with such hope &mdash; has largely degenerated into sterile bickering over cost-cutting and efficiency.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Lauri Hoagland and Steve Koppman / Guest Commentary)]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:39:16 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Readers' Forum: Veterans for freedom and peace]]>
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<![CDATA[AS WE think about and honor America's military veterans on Wednesday, it is important to realize that it is they who have helped preserve ours and much of the world's freedom, and who also sacrifice the most so that we and the world can live in relative "peace.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Pete Laurence / Guest commentary)]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:39:12 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Your Turn: Times editorials are both wrong about Richmond]]>
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<![CDATA[Your Nov. 3 editorial, "Richmond crossroads," laments the characterization of Richmond as a "violent, urban wasteland," its name linked unfairly to the attack on a young girl by feral, inner-city thugs.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Joan Wraxall / Your Turn)]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:39:07 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Your Turn: Can't understand the complacency on Obama birth]]>
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<![CDATA[To this day I remain baffled and somewhat dumbstruck by the complacency of the public, the mainstream media, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court for their willingness to dismiss challenges to President Barack Obama's (aka Barry Soetoro) natural born U.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Mike Postich / Guest commentary)]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:38:59 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Perverted justice]]>
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<![CDATA[A 28-year-old lady entered a water-drinking contest on her own free will and died of "water intoxication." The plaintiff's lawyers asked for economic and non-economic damages in a range of $34 million to $43 million.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Letter to the Editor)]]>
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<![CDATA[Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:37:13 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Water 'reform" ]]>
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<![CDATA[I can hardly believe the kind of things written about the "reform" of the Delta water situation. Does anyone ever get to the real problem that not enough water flows through the Delta for the fish who live there and for all those who have claims on it?]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Letter to the Editor)]]>
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<![CDATA[Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:37:12 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Missing parents]]>
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<![CDATA[In reference to Stephanie Mann's letter to the Times on Oct. 31 about the gang rape in Richmond, she is right on the money.]]>
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<![CDATA[Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:37:00 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Check your pills]]>
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<![CDATA[If you keep pills in your car(s) for emergencies, now is the time to replace them.]]>
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<![CDATA[Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:36:49 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Bridge sways]]>
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<![CDATA[The Bay Bridge sways on purpose. This question is suitable for engineers, but I remember learning in grade school that the suspension bridge section is built to sway 20 feet horizontally at roadbed level in a strong, gusty, 90 degree crosswind.]]>
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<![CDATA[Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:36:48 -0700]]>
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