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Rose Princess ready to help reign
Madison Teodo had a lot on her plate before she became a member of the Tournament of Roses Royal Court last month. The La Caņada High School senior is captain of the Spartans varsity volleyball team. She volunteers at Verdugo Hills Hospital and with the...
Tags: High School Sports, Social Organizations, School Examinations, Human Rights, Abusive Behavior
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School board ponders changing complaint policy
Complaints about misconduct by La Caņada Unified School District employees would be accepted only from eyewitnesses under a new policy the school board is considering.
The board is revisiting the policy in the wake of the scandal involving a math...Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Students, Career and Workplace, Teaching and Learning, Media Industry
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Community criticizes school board over Leko complaint
Upset with a process they called ineffective and shameful, community members Tuesday castigated the La Caņada Unified School District’s handling of a teacher accused of making inappropriate remarks and racial slurs.
Gabrielle Leko, a math teacher...Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning, Racism, Religion and Belief, Judaism
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In Theory: Should holy books be distributed in schools?
Schools in White County, Tenn., have agreed to stop allowing the Gideons to distribute Bibles in classrooms after the ACLU threatened a lawsuit. The Gideons entered a classroom at Doyle Elementary School in Doyle, about 100 miles east of Nashville, and...Tags: National Government, Government, Judges, Justice System, Culture
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Is secularism a threat to religious freedom?
Q. A Mormon leader recently made a speech, in which he claimed religious freedom in America is under assault from secularization and a growing gay rights movement. In his speech, Elder Dallin H. Oaks warned of “an alarming trajectory of events...Tags: Ethics, Mormonism, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Elections, Judges
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In Theory: Free speech or abuse?
In the wake of the Jan. 8 shootings in Tucson, the Arizona state legislature has passed emergency legislation to prevent the Westboro Baptist Church from picketing victims' funerals, including that of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green. The church's...Tags: Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Tucson, Judges, Justice System
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In Theory: Can Islam and democracy coexist?
Q. The pro-democracy uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt have resonated around the world, with even the Wall Street Journal going so far as to headline one column, “The Arab World's 1989?” Hosni Mubarak's resignation from his position as...Tags: National Government, Science and Technology, Qur'an, Ethics, Political Systems
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In Theory: Is America Islamophobic?
Last week's Time magazine cover story by Bobby Ghosh reported that "hate speech against Muslims and Islam is growing both more widespread and more heated," with protests against a mosque in lower Manhattan and the building of other mosques elsewhere not...Tags: Internists, Periodicals, Political Systems, Manhattan (New York City), St. George
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In Theory: Reactions to Prop. 8 ruling
A California federal judge struck down Proposition 8, the state's law that prohibits same-sex marriage, last week. What are your thoughts on this ruling? Judge Walker needs to address our concern that his own sexual orientation clouded his judgment....Tags: Ethics, Christian Orthodoxy, Elections, San Francisco, Ellen DeGeneres
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How endorsements enlighten voters
In America the Constitution guarantees every citizen free speech. That includes Valley Sun columnist Anita Brenner’s “Folks, It‘s a Non-Partisan Election” column published Feb. 3, regarding her apparent frustration that the local...Tags: Interior Policy, James Hill, Tea Party Movement, Gun Control, Elections
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Q & A: The eloquent conservative
Author and syndicated radio talk show host Dennis Prager is one of the better conversationalists you'd ever meet, but he pulls no punches for political correctness' sake.
"Ask me anything," he invites during an afternoon meal at Ichiban Japanese...Tags: Science and Technology, Mormonism, Glendale (Los Angeles, California), Racism, San Francisco
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Around Town: Does one right trump another?
On Oct. 6, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear argument in the case of Snyder v. Phelps. This involves the issue of the Westboro Baptist Church's picketing military funerals. The church used signs that expressed their pleasure (and, supposedly, God's) with...Tags: Texas, Demonstration, Freedom of Religion, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), John Marshall
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