This past week proves to be the perfect time for this letter. Why? The sky was dull with smoke and ashes cover everything. Fire! A big one and out of control. We’ve all seen the convoys of firetrucks and support equipment … some staged at our local Elks rodeo grounds. Firefighters from all over the […]
Letters To The Editor
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Cover the other side of the YMCA issue
Your feature article of July 4 titled, “All day, all night: A YMCA in Santa Ynez wants to stay open 24/7, but its neighbors are against the plan,” by Taylor O’Connor is very one-sided, whether intended or not. Most of the article focuses primarily on the reasons why it is a good idea to convert […]
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No president should be above the law
What, if anything, can be done to avert the coming disaster of living in a country where our president is “above the law”? Where criminal violations of the oath of office are ignored? Where Supreme Court of the United States candidates can lie under oath to the Senate selection committee and, once confirmed, render baseless […]
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Biden over Trump
I don’t know what planet Ron Fink was on four years ago, but the country and entire world were in the middle of a pandemic! Remember COVID? It was hard to get toilet paper, masks, and staples like flour and rice! Millions didn’t survive, and Trump did not care. I will take Biden over Trump […]
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Wind facilities vs. our national bird
Our national bird, the bald eagle—a protected species—is incurring increasing mortality from existing and proposed wind facilities. This letter focuses on the slaughter of bald eagles due to the offshore wind industry, which are proposed to grow massively along coastal California in order to reduce carbon emissions. However, the U.S. Department of Energy has stated […]
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Trump isn’t alone in speaking against immigration
President Trump is not the only person in history to speak out against immigration. Alexander Hamilton was upset about the election of Thomas Jefferson. He claimed the election was stolen and non-U.S. citizens in New York had voted for him. Hamilton an immigrant himself, stated that “the influx of foreigners” would “change and corrupt the […]
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We can’t go back once we mess things up
It seems we have been gaslighted with the “group think” new agendas. I am a local of San Luis Obispo. I was born in 1951, so I’ve seen a lot of changes in San Luis Obispo city and the county. The very sad thing about the Dana Reserve project is not only the loss of […]
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Stop pouring public money into weapons and war
Cannot our national-level elected officials, Sens. Laphonza Butler and Alex Padilla and Congressman Jimmy Panetta, do more to protect our young people from having to work for war and in war corporations? Some young people want to enter the military or to work for war companies, to kill and to risk being killed. But most […]
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Protest the use of ICBMs till they’re eliminated
“When I say that there is a step that could reduce the risk of nuclear war significantly that has not been taken but could easily be taken, that is the elimination of American ICBMs.” –Daniel Ellsberg (1931-2023) An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a land-based nuclear weapon. U.S. ICBMs are stored in underground silos across […]
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We still have time to preserve a livable planet
I appreciate that news publications are increasingly covering our planet’s worsening climate crisis. I read recently that May was the 12th consecutive month with average temperatures higher than all observations since 1850—probably the highest in more than 100,000 years. Shortly after that, I found out that California has in one year seen a doubling in […]
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Arguments against wind help fossil fuel
Yes, it is semantics and spin, and the fossil fuel industry and groups like the Charles Koch Foundation must be delighted to have people like Mandy Davis and the REACT Alliance parroting the propaganda they have been feeding them (“Semantics and spin,” May 30). A recent piece in [the Sun’s sister paper] New Times (“Environmental […]
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‘Donald Trump has shown us who he is’
Trump’s conviction in New York reaffirms the principle that no one—not even a former president—is above the law in the United States of America. The evidence presented to the jury was damning, including numerous falsified documents with Trump’s signature on them. Falsification of business records is a serious crime, and Trump is finally being held […]