Gale McNeeley, Santa Maria

I have waited my whole life for someone like Bernie Sanders to run for president. A good person who has spent his life fighting for justice. Economic justice. Racial justice. Educational justice. Environmental justice. Bernie speaks clearly to me on all our major issues.  Health care is a human right, Medicare for all is our […]

What if you are a registered voter, but not registered with a political party? Can you still vote in the March 3 Democratic presidential primary? You can. If you signed up to vote by mail, you should have received your ballot by now. However, it may not have the list of Democratic presidential candidates printed […]

I would like to know why the Sun failed to edit last week’s Ross Mayfield cartoon. It draws an ugly picture of Bernie Sanders, with yellow teeth and a yellow button calling himself crazy. It quotes Bernie as saying he won’t pay his staff the same $15 an hour he is fighting to get for […]

I wish to thank Hector Sanchez for championing the right to choose our own councilperson from our own neighborhood in 2018, 2020, and beyond. He did this by challenging the way Santa Maria has elected its leaders since 1905. The city of Santa Barbara recently fought California election law, which supports district elections in cities […]

If Joann Williams (“Show respect for the president,” Feb. 9) had read my poem on the inauguration (“A poem for Inauguration Day,” Jan. 26) more carefully, she could rest assured that it did not advocate for the assassination or murder of anyone. I do not believe violence is ever the answer, and would never suggest […]

Breathe deep, America, through the self-inflicted pain. Your people made the choice. now live with it.   Forget the Russian foreplay, if it happened, if you can, and look at your groom honestly. There is no morning after pill to make him disappear. Must you look at that face,  see that smirk, listen to that […]

Mayor Alice Patino was not representing Santa Maria seniors and others with medical marijuana prescriptions, who depend on medical marijuana for its health benefits, when she wrote a letter to the San Luis Obispo Board of Supervisors against the opening of medical marijuana dispensary in Nipomo. She also doesn’t have her facts right. She wrote […]