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• Letters to the Editor 1/22

  Letters to the Editor 1/22

  Modified food labels

  When I was in college, about 40 years ago, I thought the Sierra Club was the greatest thing.

  I was and still am all for conservation of wilderness and wildlife habitat restoration. I like camping, backpacking, remember “Just leave a footprint?” That’s what the Sierra Club was all about. It was the club of John Muir.

• Letters to the Editor 2/1

  Letters to the Editor 2/1

  A vote of support

  Combative political days are ahead. Launching a city campaign so early reflects poor judgment of timing and issues, motivating my endorsement now of Andrew Carter for mayor of San Luis Obispo.

  Elected public service is a commitment requiring all you have to give ... and then some. Candidates respectful of the energy and spirit in the voters’ realm wait until June or July to generate political noise. Once a candidate has forced open that door, other serious candidates must commit.

• Letters to the Editor 10/19

  Letters to the Editor 10/19

  Be alert for scams

  I received a telephone call from a young wo-man who was very distraught and claimed to be my granddaughter. She stated that she drove to Mexico, got intoxicated, was involved in an automobile accident and as a result was incarcerated in a Mexican jail. To get out of jail, she stated that she needed $2,225 wired to an attorney in Spain who just so happened to be in Mexico and very able to resolve her incarceration and automobile repairs.

  I recognized immediately that this was a scam. I told her to call me back in twenty minutes so I could arrange to wire her the money. I hung up and called the Sheriff’s Department and proposed a wiretap. The officer told me nothing could be done because of California law, and that the caller was most likely outside the United States.

• Letters to the Editor 10/24

  Letters to the Editor 10/24

  Where are the jobs?

  There is lots of static these days from conservatives claiming higher taxes for the very wealthy will kill jobs. The Republican candidates and conservative pundits all claim that the best way to encourage job growth is to allow the wealthy to keep their earnings, as the wealthy are the job creators.

  Currently, the tax bracket for the wealthiest among us is as low as it has been for several years. So, if the wealthy have been enjoying a low tax bite, where are all the jobs their dollars should have been creating these past three years? The wealthiest have had it pretty good these past several years, but the job outlook remains grim.

• Letters to the Editor 2/3

  Letters to the Editor 2/3

  How to ‘delight’

  PG&E’s new CEO wants to “delight me.” Hah! The Viewpoint on Jan. 29 voicing concerns over PG&E’s safety seminars should make everyone in the disaster zone leery of anything that comes out of their spokespersons’ mouths.

  “The earthquake modeling software cannot link faults,” they say. Seriously? How can PG&E, with any degree of honesty and integrity, come out and say the plant was built to withstand any significant event the surrounding faults can produce, when software models only one single fault at a time? What would delight me is for PG&E to withdraw license extension requests and shut down the plant.