Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: On Sunday, I had the opportunity to attend a news conference about evacuation of people near the Pajaro River in the community of Pajaro. I was struck by the irony of the situation. In December, […]
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Letter to the editor: Story on unhoused deaths ignores ‘personal responsibility’
Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: Really disappointed with Mark Conley’s piece “‘The world is missing something without him’: Santa Cruz memorializes its unhoused fatalities.” Yes, death is sad in any instance particularly with our most vulnerable, but there has to […]
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Letter to the editor: Numbers in Benchlands overdose story don’t line up
Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: Monday’s reporting links a September spike in overdoses to the clearing of the Benchlands homeless campground in downtown Santa Cruz. But the Benchlands was not cleared out in September. Workers began clearing the first of […]
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Letter to the editor: Coonerty, Lookout get reasons behind Justin Cummings’ victory wrong
Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: We are challenging the comments of outgoing Supervisor Ryan Coonerty and Lookout’s Nov. 22 article, “A progressive won the District 3 supervisor race after trailing for nearly two weeks. How?” Justin Cummings won. Period. We […]
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Letter to the editor: Teach history fairly, but keep the Cabrillo name
Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: I’ve been following the discussions in Lookout regarding the decision to rid Cabrillo College of the “Cabrillo” name. In trying to think of an analogy, an age-old idiom came to mind rather quickly, “cutting off […]
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Letter to the editor: Santa Cruz City Council voting is inherently unfair; there’s an easy fix
Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: We see Cyndi Dawson’s recent op-ed as helpful, but it is also important to describe the “disproportional representation” in our city more exactly. In 2018 and 2020, only 46% of all citizens’ votes cast elected […]
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Letter to the editor: Lookout’s headline on Cummings’ historic win was disappointing ‘nonsense’
Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: For the first time in Santa Cruz history, a Black man has been elected to the county board of supervisors. Yet the most recent “news” from Lookout has a headline that reads, “A progressive won […]
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Letter to the editor: Ryan Coonerty is wrong about citizen ballot measures N, M, D and O
Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: Santa Cruz voters became rightfully suspicious of city-proposed ballot measures after Measure S, which we voted on to support our city and county library needs for remodeling and upgrading. S was then turned into the […]
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Letter to the editor: Coonerty’s suggestions drip with irony
Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: Ryan Coonerty’s suggestion that voters look beyond citizen initiatives and instead collaborate more drips with irony. As outgoing District 3 Santa Cruz County Supervisor, Coonerty — in an unprecedented move — introduced a request to […]
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Letter to the editor: Progressives vs. centrists? Let’s all agree that city councilmembers need higher pay
Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: Debra Feldstein accuses a vague group as being “antisemitic” and hypocritical without naming names. How to respond to such broad statements? If I respond, that means I somehow identify with this amorphous group. For the […]