Trim the fat in the local school budget
      The citizens of California cannot ignore the education budget any longer. There is no magic bullet that will solve the shortfall in state funding. I offer the following partial solutions: •Cut the state "Tobacco Use Prevention Education." Parents need to do more in this area. This would save $19 million.
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People who waste water should remember that we live in a desert
      As a native Californian I was intensely interested in the article last week about water conservation. Growing up here we were taught that our water came from up north and other states and that, as a precious resource, we shouldn't waste it.
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