Letters to the Editor 8/13

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• Letters to the Editor 5/7

  Letters to the Editor 5/7

  Beware Lyme disease

  May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. The SLO Lyme disease support group wants to help you protect yourself from this potentially devastating disease.

  Lyme disease is a potentially devastating disease that is transmitted by the bite of a tick. Ticks are found in leaf litter, on tips of grasses and shrubs and even on the underside of picnic tables.

• Letters to the Editor 4/9

  Letters to the Editor 4/9

  Economic unfairness

  In response to my letter about the hypocrisy of economic unfairness (March 26), Joe Fagundes (April 3) wrote that alternative energy will sustain America’s unfair economy. It would seem he missed the irony and the point.

  President Barack Obama says that there is economic unfairness in America and that some should give more of what they have to the government for internal redistribution. But that is a hypocritical unfairness in the world view.

• Letters to the Editor 11/21

  Letters to the Editor 11/21

  March on D.C.

  Joe Tarica gave a fair overview of the “Occupy” movement (“Joetopia,” Nov. 5). He pointed out that our nation has the “most carefully conceived and balanced political system in the history of the world.” He reasoned that most people are reacting against the greed and cronyism which are eroding the democratic values that form the foundation of our political system.

  It is my view that the protesters should be marching in front of the White House and Congress. The Democrats have their hands out to the union bosses and trial lawyers for money to run their multimillion-dollar campaigns, and the Republicans have their hands out to the industrial titans for the same purpose, and as a result the “little guy,” whom they are supposed to represent, gets shortchanged.

• 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 5/14

  Letters to the Editor 5/14

  Politics, then and now

  Joseph J. Ellis had an article in the Los Angeles Times (May 6) that helped me understand our present politics better.

  Our founding fathers did not bring forth a “new nation” in 1776. It was a temporary union of sovereign states, declaring themselves independent from Britain. In 1787, we became the United States, but Thomas Jefferson believed that those who governed would be the educated elite. He thought of this group as us and the masses as them. In other words, “small government.” George Washington and John Adams opposed Jefferson, but it wasn’t until Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt that government became “us” rather than “them.”