Letters to the Editor 9/21

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• Letters to the Editor 11/29

  Letters to the Editor 11/29

  A bit of irony

  How ironic. A letter from Will Powers (Nov. 24) describing the San Luis Obispo City Council’s “elitist money-slinging boondoggle”: the facelift of a couple of blocks in downtown SLO while the same City Council can’t afford programs for seniors and poor people.

  Of course, everyone knows San Luis Obispo’s attitude toward the poor and the homeless, preferring they become invisible except when they come up from Nipomo or down from Atascadero to go to work and empty the garbage cans, pump the gas, serve the hamburgers, mow the lawns, etc.

• Amnesty International activists to participate in worldwide 'write-a-thon' this week

  Amnesty International activists to participate in worldwide 'write-a-thon' this week

  Local Amnesty International activists will join others around the world this week in a “write-a-thon” that will call on governments to protect and release victims of human rights abuses. The event, one of thousands worldwide, will take place from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Linnea’s Café, 1110 Garden St., San Luis Obispo. The public is invited to participate.

  “The actions of people in our community and thousands of others around the world will help bring freedom and justice to individuals being denied their basic human rights,” said Gail Comer, the group’s coordinator and spokeswoman.

  The Nobel-prize winning organization’s write for rights “commemorates the rights enshrined more than 60 years ago in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on International Human Rights Day,” Comer wrote in a news release. Amnesty International USA aims to have a similar event in every state and to generate 250,000 letters from the United States. For more information go to the Global Write-a-thon at http://www.amnestyusa

• Letters to the Editor March 15 - 21

  Letters to the Editor March 15 - 21

  Tribute to Cambria

  I n my younger years I was able to work my way around much of the world. I saw some amazing places, which made me want to find my own special place when I returned to the USA.

  In 1985, my girlfriend, now wife of nearly three decades, and I packed our car and headed from Ohio to the Central Coast, an area thru which I had previously hitchhiked a few times.

• Letters to the Editor 3/21

  Letters to the Editor 3/21

  Dump the trustees

  Can’t the Cuesta College Board of Trustees and the college president admit just once that they dropped the ball on Cuesta’s accreditation?

  Look especially at the trustees, who make flimsy excuses as this premier college slides downhill. Read their comments in the newspaper and listen to them at their monthly meetings: “I don’t speak education jargon.” “It is overwhelming.” “I don’t know what integrated planning is.” “I don’t like the tone of his speech” (referring to a faculty member’s plea to take more action on the accreditation issue). “I have been wondering what I should have seen that I didn’t see” (as if no one had been telling her for seven years). “We get feedback from the people and we did not get enough feedback” (as if monthly reports for years on end regarding what we should be doing for accreditation are not enough feedback).

• 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.