Letters To The Editor

Thank you, thank you, Jim Duenow (“Beware of the soulless corporations,” April 28). Someone finally has put the whole damnable corporate position into eloquent full view. I am tearing out this piece for my own use in telling people what I see and what I believe to be the truth abut corporations. If Reaganomics had […]

Mr. Bargenquast is wrong in many ways (“Do not let Obama win again,” April 28). For starters, Obama will be re-elected in 2012. Modern presidents usually are: “Bill” Clinton, ’92 and ’96; “W,” ’00 and ’04. Beyond that, Republicans don’t seem to have a decent candidate. In truth, President Obama inherited an economic “mess” from […]

Kudos for the good opinion piece by Jim Duenow (“Beware of the soulless corporations,” April 28). I can’t disagree with his fundamental points, but would like to add a couple of my own. Corporations may be inherently amoral, but the people who run them are not necessarily so, even though they’re legally expected to be […]

Nearly every day there is some article complaining about the wealthy and the corporations (“Beware of the soulless corporations,” April 28). There are some of us who hope that we could become one of the wealthy. All it takes is a good idea and enough money to put at risk. When you look at the […]

On April 28, the Sun ran a cartoon indicating that Santa Barbara County management employees have maintained the ability to cash out vacation time (vacation conversion) while non-management employees have had that ability taken from them. The purpose of this correspondence is to provide you with correct information and request that you publish the correction. […]

I loved your article on gang sweeps (“Swept away,” April 21), but was particularly drawn to the photo of the police conducting an early-morning sweep. One had a coffee cup in his gun hand, the other a banana.   I assume due to budget cuts these are new, low-cost weapons, in that the policeman could […]

It will take only one catastrophic incident at Diablo to cause untold long-lasting genetic and environmental damage, no matter what the cause of such a disaster. The moving audio narrative of photographer Paul Fusco at inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/chernobyl, documents the devastating consequences of Chernobyl 25 years ago. Those of us living in the shadow of Diablo, in […]

After doing more damage to the country than even the Democrats could have imagined, Barack Obama has already begun his re-election campaign for 2012. With his new slogan, “Change That Matters,” he’s been meeting for weeks at campaign headquarters in Chicago to plan his strategy, which, since he has no accomplishments to run on, is […]

Ask the old-schooler like me the following: What’s causing all the unrest in the Middle East and South Korea? Those people there see how the rest of the world lives on the Internet and demand equal freedom and rights. Why did we go into Afghanistan and Iraq? It was to reset the U.S. dollar versus […]

In the wake of the ongoing nuclear disaster in Fukushima, our attention in this community, understandably, turns to our “own” nuclear power plant in Diablo Canyon. We were once able to tuck away our fears of a Diablo disaster and carry on. But now the threat is raw and tangible. It could happen here–to us. […]

As connected to the local arts scene as I have been for the last 30 years—working with musicians, dancers, singer-songwriters, painters, sculptors, and actors, having worked in radio, for the theater, and as the arts editor for the Sun—I should be one of the last people surprised by the depth and strength of the local […]

From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, our government seems incapable of breaking its addiction to meddling in other countries. One more time we’ll spend billions of dollars, borrowed from China, to level someone else’s home in the hope that they’ll grow to love us when they get to know us better. […]