Letters To The Editor

We’d like to thank the following County staff who were instrumental in getting the Lompoc/Casmalia Road re-opened: Public Works Director Scott McGolpin, Deputy Director of Transportation Chris Sneddon, and all of the behind the scenes staffers. You rock! Additionally, Supervisor Joan Hartman and her staff met with us immediately and kept us informed on the […]

The coverage by Brenna Swanston, “Humans of Islam” (March 30), is a nice piece and it portrays Muslims as peaceful and good citizens, and no doubt many are. But I wonder if you just played into the hands of Islam in their goal of replacing Western morays with the “one and true ideology/religion of Islam.” […]

The Santa Maria Times July 13 editorial, “Our View: Facing sketchy future,” is a good start on educating readers on the extremely destructive and rapid path that we humans are on regarding our planet’s ability to sustain the lives of its creatures, including humans! Let’s point everyone to very powerful breakthrough education in the July […]

“Help me Dad.” These were Kate Steinle’s last words as she died in her father’s arms after being shot by an illegal alien who had been deported five times, had a record of seven felony convictions, but still found refuge in the sanctuary city of San Francisco. As a result of this travesty, Kate’s Law […]

In the Feb. 16 Sun article, “A slow fight for tribal land,” Chumash Tribal Chairman Kenneth Kahn reportedly said, “the federal government would closely regulate construction on Camp 4 should the land become part of the tribe’s reservation.” What does the federal government know about the Santa Ynez Valley’s general plan? One must only see […]

Having written nearly 2,000 opinion columns during my career, there is one particular subject that I have repeated over and over. It has to do with the dangers and implications of wildland fires. I characterize these observations by way of the subject line “fires, floods, and fools.” Fire, of course, leads to the watershed being […]

Even a Democrat thinks it is dumb. Democrats are noted for raising taxes and spending wildly on social issues. But here even the speaker of the California Assembly, Democrat Anthony Rendon, had to apply good sense and shelve SB 562 to stop his buddies from bankrupting the state of California with a $400 billion per […]

My family and I were totally disgusted by Mr. Foote’s 55 Fiction article peppered with F-bombs (“Graciapapi,” July 6). It’s bad enough that people are forced to hear those obscenities at the movies, but to see it in black and white in what we thought was a family friendly newspaper was unnecessary and ugly. The […]

On behalf of the residents living near the north side of the Alamo Fire, I wish to give my heartfelt thanks to all the firefighters on the ground and in the air who came from near and far to help protect our lives, property, and livestock. Being one who stayed after the evacuation order, I […]

In the July 5 Santa Maria Times editorial, “Paying for our health,” the only fix to “Obamacare” that was mentioned is to go to a Medicare-like program for everyone. Much more effective health care, with dramatic cost savings, was proposed by Dr. John McDougall in his March 2017 free monthly newsletter! Go online to drmcdougall.com […]

Anthropogenic. I can barely say the word without pausing, taking a deep breath, and then like a sprinter, saying “anthropogenic.” It’s one of those made-up scientific-sounding words often paired with climate change. Probably Latin derived. Doctors, lawyers, biologists, and such all make up words with Latin derivation to sound scientific. Also, Latin is a dead […]

Private ambulance companies put “lives before lunch” breaks. However, the State legislature is attempting to place more importance on making sure EMS workers get to finish their lunch, even if it will cost lives. This is totally unacceptable to private ambulance companies��”the EMS providers that transport 85 percent of the patients in California. AB 263 […]