Category: Opinion
The Morro Bay Council Needs to Reverse a Bad Decision
On Tuesday April 22 the Morro Bay City Council voted 3-2 to give away millions of dollars of outside funding to fix a major safety problem in the city. For 20 years Morro Bay citizens and councils have been looking for...
Read MoreEarth Fest, Co-opting our Beloved Earth Day
E very year I have looked forward to getting together with my earth and ocean loving friends to celebrate our love of and commitment to a healthy and sustainable future. We all tabled booths, learned openly from each other,...
Read MoreCity Should Buy Morro Elementary Property
W e send this letter to inform and engage our fellow Morro Bay community members. As SLCUSD pursues selling the Morro Elementary property, it is critical that the site be acquired by the City of Morro Bay. The site is integral...
Read MoreStand Up to Trump
I am outraged by the Trump administration’s decision to halt Equinor’s wind turbine construction off the coast of New York. This fully federally permitted project is designed to power 400,000 homes with clean wind energy. The...
Read MoreSLO Range Closure is Wrong
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), which is in control of the shooting and archery range north of San Luis Obispo on Highway One, has a responsibility to keep this facility for public use. It has been closed...
Read MoreKudos to Us
I and a longtime friend visited Los Osos/Baywood last week (for the fourth time over a number of years) and had a wonderful time in your beautiful area, in spite of the rain. I picked up one of your papers and read in when I got...
Read MoreTo Real Conservatives
I can understand why conservatives are concerned about government efficiency. Liberals are too. But what boggles my mind is how conservatives can be proud to support an elected leader who is a serial liar, convicted sexual...
Read MoreWhen is Enough, Enough?
The stock market is way down, prices are skyrocketing, and the country is more divided than ever. When is enough, enough? Is our government careless with its spending? Yes. But do you just fire hundreds of thousands of people...
Read MoreGovernment Shutdown is Protective
Funding the government is a vital element to America’s functioning, and which is constitutionally mandated. Congress is the sole decider in passing a budget and will determine the distribution and use of federal funds – your tax...
Read MoreOppose the Save Act
The House and Senate introduced the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require citizenship documentation to register to vote even though voters in every state are already required to affirm or verify...
Read MoreSchool Funds Should go Back to Taxpayers
I remember when they built Monarch Grove Elementary School, they told us that there were so many kids now that Baywood and Sunnyside just couldn’t handle them. And that we would have many more kids in the future. They passed a...
Read MoreDear Conservatives of California and people who listen to “real” news,
We are so fortunate to wake up each day and hear that the government is smaller, crime is down, criminals are being deported, males and females are now the only two genders, and we have new people (very bright people) coming...
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