As our community was drawn to and recoiled from the displays that the anti-abortion group Justice For All presented a couple weeks ago, no one could have known that an act of domestic terrorism was imminent. George Tiller, a doctor in Wichita, Kansas, was murdered in his church, shot to death by a suspect later identified as Scott Roeder.
An unprecedented shortfall in California's budget has brought those in the business of education to their knees, with faces to an open flame. Something easily learned in recent times of financial failings is how long it takes until people realize that they really are in trouble.