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PAUL GULLIXSON
Department: Editorial lead
Phone: 707-521-5282
Email: pgullixson@pressdemocrat.com
Beat/Position: Editorial Director
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AMY GOODMAN: The three heroines: A judge, a district attorney and a Nobelist
Published May 17, 2013
Former Guatemalan President Efrain Rios Montt was hauled off to prison on May 10. It was a historic moment, the first time in history that a former leader of a country was tried for genocide in a national court.
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KRAUTHAMMER: Only the redacted truth
Published May 17, 2013
Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don't know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the importance of the scandal if it doesn't meet...
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GUEST OPINION: Plan Bay Area offers real hope for housing
Published May 17, 2013
This plan is much more likely to succeed than past housing allocations from the state as it prioritizes those areas of higher-density growth.
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Saving sunshine for a rainy day
Published May 16, 2013
In 2010, there were 4,679 California taxpayers who reported incomes of $5 million or more. Combined, they realized $30.6 billion in capital gains, or more than half of all the capital gains reported by the 14.8 million Californians who filed tax...
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Even criminals deserve a final resting place
Published May 16, 2013
Two or three times a year, I drop by a Fort Worth cemetery to visit the grave of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who assassinated President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
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WALTERS: Proposition 98 debate remains 25 years later
Published May 15, 2013
Twenty-five years ago, California voters approved — albeit very narrowly — the education community's ballot measure that engraved a complex school finance structure into the state constitution.
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Do your patriotic duty: Ask for a raise
Published May 15, 2013
he downturn we call the Great Recession officially started in 2007. But after spending the last two years talking to people who lost jobs, homes or savings during the official recession, I'd argue that the trouble actually started decades...
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ANGELINA JOLIE: Why I made the decision that I did
Published May 15, 2013
I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy.
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MORAIN: Remote news gadfly avoids being swatted - once again
Published May 14, 2013
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WALTERS: Killing the governor's school funding plan with love
Published May 13, 2013
Gov. Jerry Brown's ambitious plan to overhaul how California schools are financed may be loved to death.
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GUEST OPINION: Vote gives Railroad Square vision another chance
Published May 13, 2013
The Santa Rosa City Council made the right decision when it stood by our city's long-term vision for Railroad Square and voted against moving forward with John Stewart's scaled-back development proposal (“Death of a grand vision at RR...
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Middle-income maintain strong values despite hardships
Published May 13, 2013
The booming stock market is of little solace to middle-class Americans, who continue to express concern about their financial security and the overall condition of the U.S. economy. The poor are even more bearish, surveys show.
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Drilling for middle ground on fracking debate
Published May 10, 2013
Just last fall, the oil industry in California spent a good chunk of its considerable political money to try to defeat Democratic Sen. Fran Pavley in her toss-up district that includes eastern Ventura County.
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Benghazi hearing recalls a Hillary Clinton of 1990s
Published May 10, 2013
At first, I thought this week's congressional hearing on the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, last Sept. 11 was giving me a sense of deja vu only because it was our ninth such session on the night Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three...
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Demise of U.S. bees demands urgent attention
Published May 9, 2013
This editorial is from the Merced Sun-Star: