Letters To The Editor

I have reservations about the wisdom of implementing the well-intended Teacher Advancement Program here on the Central Coast (“TAP into the future,” April 7). I thought our school districts and the federal and state governments were broke. The TAP program is a very expensive program to administer. The start-up costs for the Lucia Mar Unified […]

In the ongoing and difficult California budget process, the Republican Party has been called “obstructionist.” Governor Brown has challenged Republican leaders to step forward with proposals that will move California forward and solve the state’s structural deficit problems. Our own District 15 senator, Sam Blakeslee, is showing real leadership with tangible and concrete proposals for […]

Wise public policy is central to a society. It should be based on such principles as the greatest good for the greatest number for the longest time. The policy to allow nuclear power is, by these principles, the greatest evil in history. Nuclear power creates many toxic products, including plutonium 239, the deadliest substance known. […]

I am sending the following to local, state, and federal officials, the media, and others regarding the important facts about Japan’s nuclear power disaster, which have been grossly neglected. The disaster in Japan regarding their old nuclear plants has been devastating. The disaster has generated the greatest media attention to radiation leaks from the older […]

In response to your article titled “Nurses of the animal world” (March 24), I applaud the fact that Allan Hancock College may be teaming up with the Humane Society to produce a vet tech certification program. It is a gross mischaracterization, however, to compare a person who receives this one-year certification at a community college […]

Kudos to K. Reka Badger’s recommendation of Guinness instead of green beer (“Irish food in the New World,” March 17). The Bleacher Bum’s drinking games however, border on the irresponsible (“The Bleacher Bum Chronicles XII,” March 17). Drinking multiple shots of whiskey not only ensures an early end to the night, it can also lead […]

Well, it’s deja vu all over again, as Yogi Berra is alleged to have said. The recent heavy rains breached the Santa Maria River banks in Guadalupe (note: no levee) and again damaged the Apostolic Church at 9th and Pioneer streets, plus causing the evacuation of some 20 residents in the area for a few […]

One wonders when the Wisconsin Public Employee Union and its supporters clamor for “Power to the People” and “Democracy Now!” if these people are unaware that America is not a democracy, but a republic. Do they know that the word “democracy” is not mentioned anywhere in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, or that […]

A recent analysis by HUD and the VA has revealed the distressing statistic that military veterans make up 16 percent of our nation’s homeless, while comprising only 10 percent of its adult population—a problem that is worsening as vets return from Afghanistan and Iraq. While there are many forces underlying this disproportion, congressional reluctance to […]

A corporation bought the House Energy and Commerce Committee They waited until the election was over and the dirty deed done, but a few weeks ago, L.A. Times’ reporters finally revealed how the Supreme Court’s ruling declaring corporation’s “persons” who could give unlimited funds to politicians of their choice helped one corporation buy the House […]

Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown is gasping in Sacramento as he and his Democrat legislature observe the emerging national revolt against state and local government unions. Brown was elected and the Democrats retained legislative control because of the union vote. But California’s budget problem caused by union-pensions far exceeds any other state. Nationwide, state and local […]

In a recent issue of the Sun (March 3) there is a letter written by Mr. Larry Bargenquast: “Liberals need to grow into responsible adults.” This letter says that liberals hate conservatives as people and are reduced to a state of rage when exposed to conservative ideas with which they—liberals—disagree. Reduced to rage? I don’t […]