Letters To The Editor

“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 […]

I have lived on the Central Coast for more than 30 years and heard the arguments for and against the ATV riders on the dunes. What prompts me to write now is the ridiculous notion that if we finally close the dunes to these outsiders (Fresno/Central Valley rats) our towns would turn into ghost towns […]

The death of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps is greatly exaggerated. The national organization, leaders, and founders, after years of fighting the federal and state governments’ neglect of the illegal immigration problem, are in the process of retiring the national corporation and passed the ball to the regional, state, and local Minuteman Civil Defense Corps […]

Has anybody asked the folks that are hanging the “Shame on You” banners around Doc’s in A.G. and around the mall in Santa Maria if they are card-carrying union members? Has anybody asked these folks if they are getting paid union wages? Has anybody asked how long are they staying, and when they are leaving?

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 […]

Our fault? Whose fault? It (“Our own fault,” April 8) became PG&E’s fault when their initial substandard geological survey allowed the placement of their facility in an area of bedrock riddled with a chaotic network of interconnected seismic faults. One question today is who should be monetarily responsible for PG&E’s faulted initial assertion of seismic […]

The problem with county civil service benefits (“Mind the gap,” April 8) is that they are way beyond what the private sector gets and can afford, yet it is the private sector that  pays the taxes for the county benefits. The basic problem is due to two factors: the civil service unions who support and […]

I have known Katcho Achadjian for more than 35 years. Katcho attended Cuesta Community College and Cal Poly. He graduated from Cal Poly with a business degree. As our county supervisor for the last 11—and soon to be 12—years, he has done so much for our youth and public education. Katcho’s accomplishments include providing Oceano […]

Oceano Dunes is a state park gone bad. Given current global opinion about the negative impacts of the combustion engine, the use of off-road vehicles in the pursuit of frivolity is nothing short of a crime. To speak of 3-foot fences, barrier trees, or other mitigation is to dance in the wake of continued pollution. […]

Remember when Cecil B. DeMille filmed the movie in the dunes in the ’30s and nobody complained? There have been vehicle activities in the dunes ever since. Remember in the ’70s during vacations, big three- and four-day holidays, and spring breaks when all the motorhomes pulling their sand vehicles with all their families and friends […]