I am pleased the U.S. has progressed far enough that we can have a black man as the presidential nominee for one of our major parties. What will be better is when we have progressed to the point that a candidate's race is no longer cause for comment.

The airlines are suffering. For now, the air travel industry isn't soaring in the clouds, but slowly descending from the sky.

Courtesy is a two-way street. I think most of us at CMG have had an experience with a difficult patron at one time or another, and I have seen those situations handled with tact.

The language goal is not to make you fluent overnight any more than the fine arts requirement is designed to make you an artist. It is just the first step in a journey of a thousand miles.

As a member of the U marching band, I've been to my fair share of games. Rice-Eccles Stadium is the most inept stadium that I have had the misfortune to deal with.

The responsibility of enforcing immigration needs to be returned to the hands of the federal government, freeing our local law enforcement officers to perform their jobs.

The fight against abortion is picking up again with four state lawmakers writing legislation to place more restrictions on the procedure.

Surely this is not the image to be hung in the heart of this new building and celebrated.

I have come to the grave conclusion that you have created an article filled with false information and inaccurate quotes, also known as libel.

The fact that the bill was passed by the Assembly shows that it had the necessary support, and to use and try to harm my name is nothing other than what I would expect from the "fine" folks at The Chronicle.