Letters To The Editor

Special thanks to Caleb Wiseblood, calendar editor for the New Times and Sun for highlighting our annual Angel of Hope Memorial Service on Saturday, Dec. 2, at the Santa Maria Cemetery. Those in attendance had memorial bricks there in remembrance of their children. Some came because they had read about our service and never knew […]

We need to stop fighting about Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area (ODSVRA) issues. We must come to a compromise. There are many parties involved, and each needs to win something: off-roaders, Mesa residents, endangered species in the creek, and Oceano residents. Health needs come first and need to be met fully. I suggest fencing […]

Editor’s note: This letter was written in response to Angela Bacca’s commentary, “Support Lompoc’s cannabis ordinance,” on Dec. 7. Legalizing cannabis under Proposition 64 reflects the incredible stupidity of the voters in California. Because of their deranged actions we all have to deal with the potheads around us who want to be legal now at […]

Little bird, I do look forward to your weekly column (“*Cough cough*,” Nov. 30). My observation: It appears, unfortunately, that a lot of people, including law enforcement, in the two counties regard Reefer Madness as a documentary.

You just have to laugh at the continual whining of liberals and our local representative. I just read Salud Carbajal’s entire letter concerning the GOP’s tax plan (“The Central Coast can’t afford the GOP tax plan,” Dec. 7) that was full of “possibilities” of problems, but nothing he or any of his cohorts have introduced […]

Editor’s note: This letter was written in response to the Ruhge’s letter, which Bacca received via email along with the Sun. I am unsure why you have sent me this message, I strongly disagree with your stance and rhetoric. First, I would encourage you to do a little bit of scientific research, so you understand […]

Alabama state auditor Jim Ziegler, when defending Roy Moore’s behavior, stated, “Also take Joseph and Mary. Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus.” The “defense” of Roy Moore by members of the religious right dragging Mary and Joseph into the controversy while distorting the birth of Jesus […]

Dear Sun, you need more balanced cannabis coverage. You recently published an editorial by Lompoc resident Ron Fink about his irrational concerns over legalized cannabis in Lompoc (“Lompoc residents concerned over cannabis referendum,” Nov. 23). It fails to acknowledge there is already (unregulated) marijuana all over Lompoc and that legalization only paves the way for […]

I went to the Guadalupe City Council meeting about four or five weeks ago where a resident of Guadalupe discussed that he wants to build a simple driveway at his new home. He went to the Planning Department office, and it seems they sent him to the City Council meeting. He wanted to talk to […]

Last Canary was right (“Sand in their eyes” Nov. 16), those three stupid councilmen Mosby, Starbuck, and Vega forced Wiemiller to quit. We are all losers for their actions. Santa Maria picked him up right away because they knew how stupid those three are. They cannot stand anyone smarter than them and that is a […]

I think the California Gasoline Sales Tax should be replaced with a $60 billion bond measure, about $6 billion for 10 years or a decade. This Senate bill, SB 1, is going to be hard to afford on most Californians going to a gasoline station such as the Exxon-Mobil station at Morro Bay Boulevard and […]

During this holiday season, I am reminded of a story I read many years ago by writer and trial lawyer Louis Nizer. Nizer was most famous for his defense of those who were blacklisted as Communists during the 1950s. Anyway, Nizer’s brief story, “An Editorial Lost in a News Item,” recounts a newspaper article about […]