Robert Jones

I just read Amy’s article about the homeless around Santa Maria (“ Feb. 7). A few things struck me. About “Julie”—26 years old, four kids, been out of work and homeless since 2006. Struggling to find a good rehab. She doesn’t appear to be struggling that hard, if she can sit at the same place […]

Mr. Jones wonders why Mr. Smith refers to himself in the third person (“Does speaking your opinion constitute attack?” July 19). All kidding aside, I sort of agree with him regarding the Canary/Shredder guy/guys/committee/whatever it is. Are the readers to assume that it is one guy who snivels about all kinds of stuff? Why is […]

Gary, I don’t think the issue is with actual people who are sick getting marijuana (“Why get mad about marijuana, and not alcohol?” 6/7), it’s the extreme number of 18- to 30-year-olds with bad backs, migraines, glauoma, etc., etc. It’s the people gaming the system to get their weed that seems to be bothering people. […]

Regarding “Left behind” (April 26): It’s a sad story about Rosa. Brought here as an infant, then her father gets deported. Here’s the problem as I see it: He knew he was here illegally. He knew his wife and daughter were here illegally. He had his own business that apparently involved driving. Again, illegally. So […]

Just read your column (“Where have all the leaders gone?” March 8). A couple of things struck me. You get uncomfortable when you see a cop talking to a homeless guy? Why? I get uncomfortable when the guys with the signs hit me up, every time I go to CVS on Broadway—same guys, every day. […]

I can’t believe you are publicizing this guy (“Trials and tribulations,” July 28). First, it wasn’t Jeff Lind’s case. Why butt in where you don’t belong? Why isn’t your “relative” saying anything? There isn’t a mention anywhere in the article of his name or any comments, other than Lind believed “Ortega was out of line.” […]

So I see this front page headline, “New Times investigates the economics of illegal immigration,” and on the sister publication’s cover of the same week, “Dollars and Deportations” (June 24). Hmmm, I thought, very interesting, maybe someone is going to shed some light on the situation, especially here in Santa Maria. Well, upon reading both […]

“Noisy hoards of fossil fueled machines that speed down a public beach … .” First, I believe it was the safety of the children: Off-road vehicles were endangering children who were at the beach. Next, it was the number of people killed at the Dunes, one or two per year—people needed to be stopped from […]

So it appears to me that Carol Georgi and Nell Langford are both trying to have an epitaph on their graves about killing the towns of Grover Beach, Oceano, and Pismo almost single-handedly, by making up “facts” about the OHV park system getting millions of dollars from the general fund, when in fact, the general […]

Regarding Nell Langford’s letter on the particulates at the Oceano Dunes OHV Park (“Stand against health-threatening particulates,” Jan. 21): Come on, Nell, you’re certainly reaching on this one. Do you mean the exhaust from the off-road vehicles, or do you mean the sand that is kicked up out there? Regarding the pollutants coming from the […]

One thing that was conspicuously absent from the Nov. 5 cover article, “Underinsured and overstretched,” was the effect of the illegal aliens in this county on the hospital. I would assume that, considering all the pregnant illegals walking around the streets of Santa Maria, they are having their babies at Marian. How many actually pay […]