Letter to the Editor

Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: I wanted to comment on a recent article you had on the visibility of individuals without homes. I agree the increasing number of individuals without homes is devastating our community and symptoms of the problem […]

Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: I am writing to ask if you would do a piece on Santa Cruz city parks workers. There are plenty of pieces done about the police and other higher-ups in city government about homelessness. I […]

Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: One. Overdose. Death. A. Week. Let that sink in, from a recent Lookout report of there being “at least” six fentanyl-related ODs in the Santa Cruz Benchlands since July. Homeless advocates are threatening another lawsuit […]

Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: I am concerned about the little information residents have and really don’t understand about the city’s objective standards, related to all future building in Santa Cruz. This is so important, yet no one I know […]

Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: The City of Santa Cruz wants to clear the Benchlands and says it will relocate residents to shelters. But the shelters are already filled to capacity. Unless city officials magically find at least 300 more […]

Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: Lookout’s article about the state of downtown retail space was good — informative, detailed, well-researched and well-written — up to a point. The elephant in the room in any article that talks about downtown Santa […]

Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: We need to buy Watsonville Hospital. The Community Health Trust of Pajaro Valley was created through proceeds from the sale of Watsonville Community Hospital to a private entity in 1998. Over $13 million was placed […]

Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor, It is not just COVID-19 and online shopping that is leading to empty storefronts downtown. It would be benefitting to the readers if Lookout would detail how hard it is for retailers to deal with […]

Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. Thank you for publishing the excellent rebuttal (“Stick to Santa Cruz’s downtown library and affordable housing plans: don’t fall for ODOF’s two big mistakes”) to the ODOF arguments against the proposed new downtown library and affordable housing project. […]

Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: The Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds livestock barns that were critical during the CZU Fire evacuations might cease to be available for area family livestock during emergencies, depending on public input at the Fair Board July […]