.Letters to the Editor

I read your recent response to the divisiveness and polarization around the crisis in the Middle East...

Please leave your thoughts and memories, as we honor the passing of one of our most loved and influential community members.

I live in Scotts Valley and make regular daily trips to Santa Cruz proper. In the last year or so, I've noticed at least 5 accidents (2 of which I know were fatal) on the El Rancho Drive exit heading north (one just last night). It's been very concerning...

here was a meeting last night (Nov 16th) about the rail trail. The big developers who want a “skyline” for Santa Cruz in the form 6-17 story buildings (that I wouldn't’ wish upon anyone to have to live in) as well the $100 million ‘trail next to rail’ project are literally ‘getting away with murder’ of hundreds of legally protected trees...

RADIO DAZE Great cover story about the two wonderful women who revived quality local broadcasting lost to the greedy bastards who stole it from us. It...

WATSONVILLE AIRPORT RETORT Developers never stop developing airports across the US. Several times the Watsonville Municipal Airport was about to be closed, as in one...

What is the evidence, despite what nearly all economists believe, for the assertion that Santa Cruz’s housing market is somehow not subject to the economic law of supply and demand (as "Housing for People” promoters claim, and the Editorial Note repeats in the 10/18 issue)? No one expects more building of market rate apartments to completely ‘solve’ affordability...

— I care deeply about our environment and am proud of California’s efforts to develop a cleaner and more affordable energy grid. That is why I am so troubled that the legislature gave the green light to California’s Monopoly Utilities and are letting them impose a utility tax on all of us.