Opinion
The Police Are Not to Blame

    Editor, I’m appalled to hear that the Koenig family has hired a high profile lawyer who obviously plans to sue the city. While I was sympathetic to the family who lost a son, that sympathy has quickly evaporated. I was surprised and relieved that no one else was killed that day, I was a witness that day to the speeding and the aftermath of the crash. Full Story
Park Residents Need More Than Promises

   Editor, As a member of the Sierra Club Save Hobo Aliso Task Force and a former resident of Laguna Terrace Mobilehome Park, I was not surprised to read letters from the park manager and two residents assailing the Sierra Club and Penny Elia. Full Story
A Time to Celebrate Community

   Editor, I had a wonderful opportunity recently to visit El Morro Schools’ The Learning Center Full Story
A Local Economic Stimulus Roadmap

    Editor, Dennis Myers’s letter of March 5 challenges the assertions of Billy Fried that the reason so many storefronts are empty is because of high rents, but counters that the reason is “Our current city witch-hunts, regulations, and ordinances are stacked to assure those businesses that get CUPs will fail, or at best under perform.” Full Story
Greenbelt Despoiled by a Flick

    Editor, Butt, butt, butt....and that was only in my first step. As I walked a new First Saturday clean-up route along our famous canyon Saturday morning with Tex Haines, owner of Victoria Skimboards, I didn’t see much “obvious” trash ahead until I looked down at my feet. Cigarette butts were strewn about every six to eight inches. Full Story
All Can Chip in for Fireworks

    Editor, My thanks go out to those who have sent in checks and made suggestions on how to fund the fireworks on July 4. Believe me, Jim Howard and I have been working on this since last September, and sometimes it got lonely. Full Story
Revolted by Dog Housing Suggestion

    Editor, I am writing in response to a letter to the editor in last week’s Indy. The writer suggests housing the homeless in plastic doghouses. I find this suggestion to be profoundly offensive, on many levels. Are we to seriously consider putting the mentally ill, true of many of our homeless citizens, and the financially unfortunate in doghouses? Full Story
A Constitutional Right

   Editor: Maybe it was that headline that prompted one Lagunan to suggest in a letter to the Independent that a better alternative to the ASL would be dog kennels. Full Story
Dogs Should Not Rule

   Editor, The dog’s life, 2010! Everything has changed since the time when I had my dog, “Bo Derek.” Full Story
Still Drawbacks to Eucaplytus

    Editor, In response to Ms. Henry (“In Defense of Willowy Eucalyptus,” Letters, March 5). Au contraire, I do have the Sunset Magazine Guide to Western Region; bought it when I took landscaping classes and irrigation management courses in the ‘70s from a teacher who was cutting-edge on water conservation and planting for our soil. Full Story
Traffic Also a Safety Hazard

   Editor, Keep the undercover police patrols. Install surveillance cameras, and quickly figure out what to do about the over-capacity traffic situation. Full Story

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