Letters To The Editor

Have we seen global warming in Santa Maria? Yes, we have. I remember yearly frosts on the lawn in the mornings after a below-freezing night. In previous years, I’ve lost plants to freezing weather. But it hasn’t happened in years. That could be a short-time anomaly, but likely it’s the world warming, bit by bit. […]

On Dec. 11, 2019, the Oceano Community Services District (OCSD) removed and barred one of its board directors, Cynthia Replogle, from all present and future voting and non-voting committees with an aggressive, hurried, and single motion. Directors Karen White and Shirley Gibson claim that Replogle spoke publicly against board policy and presented a divided board […]

Sir, on more than one occasion you stated you had proof the president had colluded with the Russians to win the 2016 election. Either you have the proof or you lied. Which is it? Show us the proof. You shift with the wind looking for any case you might manufacture against him. What have you […]

In response to: “After years of stalled growth, the city of Guadalupe is rapidly adding homes and inching toward future commercial development” (“Building up,” Dec. 5). As a longtime Central Coast resident, I would suggest editing the title of this piece to read: After years of quiet preservation, the city of Guadalupe is rapidly adding […]

You can laugh at the guy who wears a belt and suspenders, but it has been a practice to multi-source critical components for the military, aerospace, and anything that involves security, defense, and infrastructure.  Now that electrical blackouts are to be considered the new normal, consumers are being enticed to get their own backup power […]

What is your response to out of control fire caused by global warming? It is to allow closure of our largest carbon-free generator, Diablo Canyon Power Plant. We see your support of more burning of more fossil fuel—natural gas. We see no protection of the people, even in this climate emergency. Diablo Canyon has a […]

Aera Energy wants us to green-light its plan to radically ramp up oil operations in Cat Canyon. The company is jointly owned by Exxon and Shell. As you read this, Exxon is awaiting, probably in vain, a major court verdict in a suit that charges it has lied to the public for decades. Exxon knew […]

The national anniversary of women’s suffrage will be celebrated in August of 2020. Did you know that women in the state of California voted on state matters eight years earlier than they were able to do nationally?  California suffragists were successful in lobbying the Republican Party to include support for women’s suffrage in its 1911 […]

Lompoc is facing a severe budgetary problem, and as a result, vital services like police protection are severely curtailed. So far, there have been seven murders in Lompoc, perhaps somewhat due to a lack of policemen. So why does Lompoc charge new home builders so much less for connection fees for new houses than neighboring […]

How could you politicians put 40 million Californians in such peril as to deliberately shut off our power? There is absolutely no justification for that. We all stand to lose by the actions of our state governor. Our lives and property are at risk by these actions. A fire is not a disaster unless you […]

On Oct. 18, 2019, State Parks gave its first quarterly report to the California Coastal Commission on the Public Works Plan under which Pismo Beach State Park and Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area (ODSVRA) will operate in the future. It was obvious to the commission that State Parks had not done its homework.  At […]

This matter concerns an attempt to foist on us oil leasing and hydraulic fracturing in 1.6 million acres of our federally protected public lands here on the Central Coast. Supervisor Gregg Hart’s resolution opposing further dangerous oil operations here aims to protect us all. We can hope that a measure of wisdom and courage will […]