Letters to the Editor 9/24

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• Letters to the Editor 4/1

  Letters to the Editor 4/1

  ‘Failed on all counts’

  If a woman has made the very tough decision to have an abortion, she obviously does not want a baby.

  That’s 18 years of caring and feeding. Many times, these children are unloved and abused. The taxpayers and the child pay for this in the long run.

• Viewpoint: Pepper attack shocking

  Viewpoint: Pepper attack shocking

  I am the father of a UC Davis student and — along with my wife — was appalled and sickened at videos we have seen of the UC Davis campus police officers pepper spraying students in a peaceful demonstration aligned with the Occupy Wall Street movement. The Nov. 21 Sunday Tribune reported the story on page A3, and again on Monday on page A4, but I suggest you either search online for “UC Davis pepper spray video” or go to www.huffingtonpost.com for a more extensive report, videos and a thoughtful review of more productive ways of handling nonviolent student protests.

  It is shocking that after all the years that have transpired since the ’60s, during which reasonable customs and procedures have been established for handling free speech demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience, we still find police officers who believe the best way to meet non-violent protest and free speech in a democracy is to do it with violence. Apparently two campus police officers believed that before they arrested U.S. citizens

• How will gay marriage play on the ground?

  How will gay marriage play on the ground?

  On the upper eastern edge of Ohio lies a valley built on the sweat of the working class, where steel mills sit mostly shuttered but a once-struggling Chevy plant endures. It is a place filled with union halls and blue-collar families for whom the auto bailout meant survival, delivered by a president many here see as their savior.

• Letters to the Editor 1/6

  Letters to the Editor 1/6

  Simply buy the peak

  There is a simple solution for those who would determine how Cerrito Peak should be developed: Buy it!

  For those who think Mr. Reddell should be able, within reasonable limits, to develop his own property: Today it may be Mr. Reddell’s problem, but please be aware that tomorrow it may be your property that others want to control.

• Letters to the Editor 12/18

  Letters to the Editor 12/18

  Climate change’s costs

  As the article “The Deadly Dozen” (Dec. 7) about extreme weather phenomena made clear, there are high costs associated with climate change. Even after eliminating tornado damage as not associated, the climate change price-tag from 2011 is at least $27 billion compared to $9 billion in 2008. If the U.S. and other major carbon emitters continue to stall on actions to drastically reduce emissions, the costs can only rise. Who will pay for such damages? FEMA when the government is broke? Private insurance companies who will impose limits on coverage as these disasters become more frequent? Individuals whose homes are destroyed and farmers whose crop yields are wiped out by droughts and floods? None of the above.

  There will be more suffering, economic and otherwise, because there are no binding treaties holding the largest emitters responsible for reductions. Our government didn’t sign the Kyoto treaty, and this month’s Durban conference did not yield a binding treaty. Several years