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• Letters to the Editor 1/11

  Letters to the Editor 1/11

  Vote yes to ban bags

  The Integrated Waste Management Authority should vote to support the single-use bag ordinance today. This ordinance has been thoughtfully crafted with significant public and business input to maximize environmental and economic benefits. It has the support of the California Grocers Association and the San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce for a simple reason: It will save businesses money. (Or “job creators,” in election season speak.)

  By passing this ordinance, we will stop sending more than $5 million per year out of our county’s economy that we spend on single-use plastic and paper bags and keep it locally. While six months ago, all IWMA board members were in agreement on this issue, some have chosen to cave to the demands of the American Chemistry Council and their “Keep Bags Free SLO” campaign. A robo call here, a misleading ad there, and interestingly enough the mindsets of some of our local elected officials switch from pragmatic problem-solving to re-election strategy.

• Letters to the Editor 11/9

  Letters to the Editor 11/9

  Support ban on bags

  Today at 1:30 p.m., the 13-member Integrative Waste Management Agency will consider banning plastic bags in this county.

  Unfortunately, Californians still use about 18 billion plastic bags each year, according to the nonprofit group Environment California. Too many of them find their way into the ocean, where they pose a fatal threat to wildlife and add to the Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirling gyre of trash in the Pacific Ocean that’s already grown to twice the size of Texas. A study by researchers at UC San Diego found that nearly one in 10 small fish collected in the Pacific had plastic in the stomach.

• Oscar nominees take a look back with 'New Nostalgia'

  Oscar nominees take a look back with 'New Nostalgia'

  CHICAGO - A couple of years ago, Bruce Sheridan, chair of the film program at Columbia College, noticed a curious thing happening. A few of the film majors who interned on the Chicago production of "The Dark Knight" had started making their student films and, as expected, Christopher Nolan's brooding, zeitgeisty, state-of-the-union-address of a superhero epic was a big influence. Less expected was the sort of movies it inspired. Film students have always gravitated to the shadows and stark lighting of classic noir; and Batman is the most noir-y of superheroes. Sheridan planned to see lots of noir. What he got were wide open urban spaces.

• 'They use you up': Hall of Famer Dorsett suing NFL

  'They use you up': Hall of Famer Dorsett suing NFL

  The helmet-to-helmet shot knocked Tony Dorsett out cold in the second quarter of a 1984 Cowboys-Eagles game, the hardest hit he ever took during his Hall of Fame NFL career.

• Letters to the Editor 1/12

  Letters to the Editor 1/12

  Wolf invader

  Our state “fish and game” is not doing its job. That wolf that came into California that everyone wants to make a pet out of needs to be eradicated. It is an invasive species just like the mussels in our lakes.

  As to the endangered species part that someone will bring up, these are Canadian wolves. They are not endangered. Canada has plenty of them. We do not need them. Our government killed all the deer and elk on Santa Rosa Island because they were not native. This wolf is not native.