Letters

At the recommendation of Supervisor Pat Loe, the SBCBOS (11/27/07) unanimously included "truck-only" lanes in its approval of VTA's northern most alternative for strategic improvements for regional highways, i.e., "East-West Connector." While the Southern California Association of Governments had previously endorsed the same concept, the nation's commerce and industry have been using a better form of freight transport – i.e., intermodal service. The 75 percent fuel savings, lower freight rates, and highway congestion and maintenance reductions, at truck-competitive service on trans-Mississippi loads induced U.S. industry to switch from trucks to intermodal even before fuel prices reached their current levels. Even the nation's largest truckers have been tendering truckloads to railroads for longhaul moves, improving their bottom line.

The Census Bureau has released its annual estimate of county

Where were the parents? This is not a tragedy but a very sad and

Pet Owners Shouldn't Have Been Ambushed at Dog Park

Dear Editor:

We were scuba diving almost 100 feet underwater, 30 miles from nowhere. An environmentally unconscious stranger in the dive group grabbed an octopus. It sucked in sea water, then squirted it out to jet onto Tom’s mask and clamp its tentacles around his head, like a bucking bronco rider hanging on for dear life. Its suckers started tugging the life-giving air “regulator” from his mouth. His tank was running out of air. And an “emergency ascent” might give him the “bends” and kill him.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is establishing limits

Editorial Set a Bad Example for our Youth, Anyone Who Reads

Thank you so much for printing the Make Them Kiss the Pig ballot

Police Department Should Have All Officers on the Street