Letters to the Editor 10/18

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• 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

• Letters to the Editor 12/28

  Letters to the Editor 12/28

  Slow genocide

  Regarding the desecration of Eagle Rock in Morro Bay, as Fred Collins of the Northern Chumash said, to paraphrase, it would be a continuation of a slow genocide of the indigenous people of the Central Coast. That is true.

  I agree with Kathy Duncan and Kent Nagano when they propose that the developer, Mr. Dan Reddell, should make a “noble decision” and reconsider developing that beautiful landmark that helps define Morro Bay.

• Letters to the Editor 3/28

  Letters to the Editor 3/28

  The hoodie problem

  Thank you, Geraldo Rivera. Let me tell you why I’m indebted to Geraldo Rivera. You see, I may very well owe my life to him. According to Geraldo, chances are Trayvon Martin lost his life because he was a black male wearing a hoodie in a predominantly white neighborhood. So, thank you, Geraldo; now that I know this, I know how dangerous it is for me as a black male to continue to wear a hoodie in my predominantly white neighborhood here on the Central Coast.

  But there’s a problem. First, I’ve got three hoodies and hate to give them up. I like all three. Each of them has a particular significance. One is a Stanford University hoodie, one is a The Citadel hoodie and one is a Pismo Beach hoodie. One of our daughters got two degrees from Stanford, another daughter got a graduate degree from The Citadel and the third, well, it’s Pismo Beach.

• Letters to the Editor 1/7

  Letters to the Editor 1/7

  Fix system first

  San Luis Coastal Unified School District board member Mark Buchman (“Viewpoint: Kids are the target if state pulls budget trigger,” Sept. 6) did not make any public statements when the outgoing Assemblywoman Karen Bass gave her staff raises less than a year ago.

  I also don’t recall Mr. Buchman, when he was chairman of the county Democratic Central Committee, standing on any street corner to protest the Democrat-controlled state government giving a 5 percent raise to a union-controlled public employee group this year. SLO City Councilman John Ashbaugh and Buchman have not protested Congresswoman Lois Capps’ lack of leadership in seeking to increase funding to special education, which would help school districts in this county.

• Letters to the editor 1/4

  Letters to the editor 1/4

  Online accountability

  Please require anyone who has their letter or comments posted online to provide their real name and city, which should be included with what is posted. They should also provide their phone number and home address to you for your records and possible call-back verification.

  I am seeing far too many postings on The Tribune’s website that are ludicrous, insulting and worse, which is a total abomination in today’s world.