Letters To The Editor

T. Boone Pickens’ investments to solve the oil crisis will do nothing to provide more, cheaper gasoline for the 200 million cars in the United States. Only more oil development will solve that problem. All power sources pollute in some way. Which pollutes the least and is the easiest to manage is the question and […]

My name is Jim “Woody” Roland, who John so kindly mentioned in his Fantasy Camp story (“It’s never too late to play ball,” July 24). Just wanted to say that John was a delight to spend time with over the weekend. His enthusiasm in participating and covering the game as a writer for the Sun […]

Thank you for allowing me this space to thank morticians who honor our former military at their burial. I do especially appreciate those of you who make the time to have the casket covered with the stars of the flag over the head of the veteran and those of you who put the folded flag […]

Bravo to PCPA! The current offering from PCPA deserves accolades. The staging, costuming, choreography, direction (musical and acting), and finally, the performers were absolutely outstanding. I truly believe a New York Broadway company could not have presented a better production. How lucky we are to have this kind of theater in our community. I support […]

Sincere accolades to Shelly Cone for her recent article “Where is the art?” (July 17). Santa Maria and surrounding environs have numerous national and internationally known artists. Frank Gray has a stunning piece in the White House; Sandra Kay Johnson and Gerry Stinn, to name only two, are in the Smithsonian; and Bill Shinn is […]

Correcting three root cause problems will go a long way toward making America self dependent and move us toward regaining the honor and respect we no longer enjoy on the world stage. Root Cause 1: The oil standard. Our next president should immediately initiate a “Manhattan Project” on energy, using our best and brightest to […]

I don’t think anyone is surprised government is broke, and we all know government employees have no incentive to work hard or fast. I get upset that government is now competing with private sector companies—WHY? Vector control … electrical … plumbing. This is a big problem and needs to be addressed. If the service is […]

How much more heartache must we endure? Congress continues to fund the war even though it is inconceivable with proven evidence that Bush and his subordinates used deceit for attacking and occupying Iraq. “Incorrect information,” says the White House—but now we know lies were used. And the terrorist threat is now greater than ever with […]

Lois Capps needs to get past her 1969 oil spill mentality and embrace modern technology and science. Energy and oil are for everyone, not only for the elite who fly to Washington weekly on planes using oil. Our economy needs the oil. With increased drilling, prices will decrease because the oil producing counties will no […]

How has communism flourished in so many countries? Two philosophers, Georg Hegel and Karl Marx, in the mid-19th century decided that the working man did not have any choice when working for his employer, and had to accept whatever demands his employer made of him. In subsequent years, unscrupulous politicians used this philosophy to gain […]

Once again, your selection of winners of the 55 Fiction contest (July 3) is the same old schlock. If you received 863 entries, why did you have to use the same few authors multiple times? Your editorial blurb claims that “you just can’t dispute the instinctive, irrational glow that quality reading material produces.” It’s too […]

It’s time we all took our heads out of the sand. As most of us have known for a long time, the meat industry does not stand up to the rigid standards it is supposed to, and there are loopholes in those standards. The Humane Society has been documenting abuse of laws and abuse of […]