Posts tagged as “Letters to the Editor”

The new Bookmobile, bought with grant money from the Department of Agriculture (which means the County put out no money for its purchase) is being billed to the Library... as if it had been paid for by the County. Got that? Every day, in every way, someone at the County is figuring out how to steal the funds that local taxpayers wanted specifically to go to libraries in this county.

The Big Surprise.

The terminal cancer. The word leaks out. The "goys" bring the Irish whiskey. The Jews smoke and pain pills. All in all it has been a wasted life. I flew off the handle too much. Never felt comfortable in my own skin. My business just making ends meet. In my heart — tried to be a good Jew and a patriotic American.

The fact that three people, none of whom live in Redwood Valley, can make a decision that affects everyone living here and changes the bucolic nature of our pastoral rural small town — against the wishes of its citrizens, is undemocratic, unjust and unfair.

Recently the Ukiah Daily Journal published an unsigned editorial that apparently represents the opinion of the paper, in which it denounced Supervisor Tom Woodhouse for talking with County workers about their jobs and conditions. The editorial referenced Supervisor Carrie Brown’s reprimand of Supervisor Woodhouse.

As California's epic drought plunges into its fourth year, Californians are desperately seeking ways to use less water in their daily lives with such measures as taking fewer and shorter showers, flushing less often, turning off the tap while brushing, washing the car less often and replacing lawns with drought tolerant plants being heavily promoted by State water agencies.

When the normal channels of justice do not function, the question is "what other resources are there to pursue justice; and what community resources are out there to work with to be sure the same type of criminal act does not keep reoccurring, particularly by the same criminal?