Letters
Hindering or Helping 101?
find it almost impossible to believe that Nick Welsh would "pan" the efforts of a citizen group attempting to find ways to save $53 million of county money and 18 months of consumer frustration with highway construction. Read story.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Needs Practice
Eric Hvolboll's article on his family's stand against the panga boat invasion was fascinating, both for its historical perspective as regards smuggling, and for the disturbing naïveté of the family’s decision to defend themselves with a .410 shotgun, which they chose to train on at 4 a.m., in their moment of danger. Read story.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Crypto Tea Partiers
Santa Barbara County resident Robert Jeffers wrote an interesting Voices piece in “Getting Back to Our Grassroots.” Read story.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
That's No Way to Change the World
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, perpetrators of the Boston marathon bombing may never have read The Way of the World. Read story.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Open Letter to the Mission Band
My heart soars and I get a knot in my gut every time I see or read about the Mission Band of Chumash Indian leaders saying how it makes them feel good when they have these tribal meetings and how it makes a good effect on all the tribes across the United States. Read story.
Monday, May 20, 2013
More Like That
Thank you for publishing Paul Relis's excellent, important story of how Carpinteria Valley agriculture came to be protected back in the '70's. Read story.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Gaviota Rangeland
I know very little about raising cattle and what I know about ranching comes from watching old cowboy movies. Read story.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Save Isla Vista Clinic
They saved the Santa Barbara parking lots, and we need to save The Isla Vista Neighborhood Medical Clinic from being sold and turned into another apartment house or McDonalds! Read story.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Creeping Kafkaesque Reality
Governor Brown’s proposed budget makes excessive additional cuts to court funding. Read story.
Monday, May 13, 2013
4-H on the Chopping Block
This past Friday, Santa Barbara County released its draft budget in advance of hearings during the week of June 10-15. Read story.
Monday, May 13, 2013
Barking Up the Wrong Ban?
Regarding Buellton’s ban on head shops, I find it hypocritical that in a community where alcohol sales and consumption are so prevalent and increasing rapidly, there is such opposition to anything relating to the sale or use of marijuana. Read story.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Naive Notion
Nick Welsh's diatribe against Israel is counterproductive and ill-informed. Read story.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Easy to Criticize
Nick Welsh is correct that Richard Falk’s most recent diatribe against U.S. and Israeli policy in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings was not quite as egregious and offensive as his past anti-Semitic and maliciously anti-Israel comments. Read story.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Convenience vs. Environment
The letter "What’s the Harm” missed the mark about Santa Barbara’s proposed plastic bag ordinance and perpetuates misinformation being put out by plastic bag industry lobby groups like “Save the Plastic Bag Coalition,” so I’d like to set the record straight. Read story.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Cutting Social Security Benefits Not the Way to Go
Since President Obama released his budget last month, I’ve heard from constituents throughout the Central Coast with comments and concerns, especially about one specific provision: the President’s inclusion of the Republican proposal to change how Social Security cost of living adjustments are made by using a benefit calculation called “chained Consumer Price Index." Read story.
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