Letters to the Editor

Forty-three years ago this week, Bill White, my hero, hired me as a teacher at Arroyo Seco Junior High. Like so many other teachers at that time, I was a

I am going to part with and probably anger a lot of my fellow conservatives on this, but as is always my preferred practice I am going to let logic

Re: Mr. Thomas Oatway of Valencia. The majority of his letters bash people for not getting vaccinated, and the majority of those he bashes are Republicans who support Donald Trump.

Subject: The Board of Supervisors’ lack of commitment and responsibility and transparency. I sent this letter to the Board of Supervisors on Aug. 7.  Madam supervisors, I want to express

Regarding Thomas Oatway’s comment on Aug. 6 (“Theater of the Absurd”) on Donald Trump’s not winning the election: I would recommend he click onto FrankSpeech.com and watch Mike Lindell’s Cyber

As of June 12, 2020, the L.A. County homeless population was 66,433, a 12.7% increase from 2019. Measure H, the L.A. County homeless initiative, is estimated to generate $355 million

How ironic that those, who claimed under Donald Trump in 2020 to care most about things like migrant kids and COVID-19 numbers, supported Joe Biden.  His 2021 migrant kid numbers

Amid all the national talk about deleting oppressors’ names from places and things, Californios are carefully averting their eyes from the elephant in the room: Spanish oppression of native populations

The right wing’s capacity for false equivalency was demonstrated again, this time by Bill Ryan’s letter Aug. 4 (“Putting the Shoe on the Other Foot”). Ryan was commenting on a

The column (July 31) from Betty Aronson had so many untruths that it will be impossible to refute them all, but I will revisit a few of the most absurd.

Gary Horton started off pretty good with his recent article (June 30) entreating us to be wise as well as smart. It was good until the end of the first

In this day of political correctness, wokeism and cancel culture, it never ceases to amaze me that statues of our founding fathers are defaced and torn down because some people

As polite society reminds us, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But people with functioning frontal lobes will also point out that while you may be entitled to your

Gary Horton’s “Ditch the Age of Stupid, Make Wisdom Great” (June 30) paints all Republicans with a single brush. His latest is, “That implied label of ‘stupid’ is one Republicans

Thanks for publishing “Sweet memories of my Grandpa Bill, 1900-1975”! (Senior page, July 28.) It was so refreshing to read such a wonderful and inspiring story!  I’m hoping for more

The insurrection on Jan. 6 was not a “normal tourist visit,” a guided tour or a “loving” assembly. It was a deliberate attack of the U.S. capitol. It was a

Young Republicans must learn the old traditional GOP time-tested policy that wins elections. The formula, according to Thom Hartmann, is simple: • Increase inequality in the country until poverty and

Your columnist, Jonathan Kraut, uses Fox News’ mischaracterization of Critical Race Theory (among other concepts) to characterize Fox News as a media organization that is intent on fanning the flames

Many liberals are asking “why should vaccinated people sacrifice to protect those who refuse vaccination?” In other words, why protect people from themselves? It’s a very good question…and it’s the

Democratic hopefuls: Who are you, and what are your plans or platform? How do you want to earn our votes, if we don’t even know anything about you?  Please hold