Justin Ruhge, Lompoc

Lightning does strike more than once in the same place. Once again, the Lompoc Unified School District (LUSD) has placed a bond measure on the ballot, this time for $125 million with levies projected to be 6 cents/$100 of assessed valuation of your property, i.e., $240 per $400,000 property value. The past election seasons have […]

American taxpayers should be up in arms and madder than hell over the taxes they are paying every year. Our taxes are at 50 percent of our income per year. We must work until about May 15 (tax freedom day) each year just to pay our taxes. Most families must have two members working to […]

The propensity of the Sun Opinion page to publish outlandish, anti-Trump letters is again displayed in the recent one entitled “Misdeeds in La-La Land” (Aug. 9) by the “reknowned expert on everything,” i.e., Ken McCalip. His recent throw-up on your page is an example of “Trump derangement syndrome,” common with liberals and Democrats. His comments […]

Here we were, senior citizens doing our volunteer duty, sitting the first session of the Santa Maria Republican Club booth at the recent county fair as we have for the past 10 years. All around us were other booths for the NRA, wheel chairs, books and puffy dolls, jewelry, cosmetics, bonsai plants, the CHP, etc. […]