GRRRROWWLLL To the Editor, Busyness is a constant in our lives. It's hard to decide where to spend our time and energy. In choosing, I reflect upon the extent to which the issue effects the…
Posts published in “Letters to the Editor”
Dear Editor, In a letter in the September 5th AVA, I reported that the California assembly had passed by a unanimous 80-0 vote, HR 35, a non-binding resolution which condemned all protests on state university…
THE METROPOLIS STOPS Editor, Thanks again to Dick Meister for his annual Labor Day reminder that labor has a lot to celebrate. Given the harsh realities of American capitalism, it's a major miracle that labor…
GREETINGS FROM MIKE & SUZANNE Dear Friends, I thought someone might be interested to know that our insane state prison system has decided that serial killers are not maximum-security inmates. I was convicted of first-degree…
AARON BASSLER Letter to the Editor As an extremely frustrated father and community member I feel the District Attorney’s report on the police shooting of Aaron Bassler shows clearly the need for change in the…
COMMUNICATING WITH PARKS Ms. Janelle Beland (Acting Director of State Parks), Over the last ten months, I have written and published 13 in-depth articles on the Parks crisis. The articles appeared in the Anderson Valley…
WAR & GUNS, AN EXCHANGE Editor, I enclose my latest two letters (and what provoked them) to the Contra Costa Times. We are allowed one letter a month but at least they ran. * *…