Letters

I saw on an internet news post that California was considering allowing 12-year-olds to take the Covid vaccine without their parents’ permission. I thought, even in California this couldn’t possibly be true, then I saw it in the paper and spoke to several people...

Sometimes it’s important to step back and connect the dots. I don’t know Laura Garcilazo personally. But after receiving her campaign mailer for the auditor-controller election and seeing some of the sensationalistic headlines being used, I started to look more closely at the circumstances surrounding...

The latest television ads bought by the oil companies against Measure J really disturbed us. A man says he is an employee of a "local" oil business, speaks with an accent and claims that Measure J will leave him unemployed. But, according to the president of the local oil business Steve Coombs, of Patriot Resources, who described their oil recovery process to my husband and others at a meeting he attended; none of those practices that are currently being used would be banned by Measure J. Steve described needing to use acid to clean scale off an existing Class II injection well used for water flooding and waste water injection and to use acid to break up drilling mud in new well borers. These methods of acid used in well maintenance would not be banned by Measure J.