Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: It seems to me all the past and present efforts to alleviate the nightmarish traffic during the commute on Highway 1 are counterproductive. The engineering designs and ideas just don’t make sense to me, an […]
Letters to the Editor
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Letter to the editor: After storm evacuation response, a thank-you to Metro heroes
Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: Now that the devastating atmospheric storms of December and January are behind us, I want to thank the Santa Cruz Metro drivers, dispatchers and supervisors who stepped up to evacuate people from flood- and mudslide-prone […]
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After the storms, let’s applaud those who went above and beyond
Lookout wants to hear stories about Santa Cruz County residents helping each other during the storm siege that began New Year’s Eve and lasted into mid-January.
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Letter to the editor: What a damn shame to demolish the Circle Church
Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: To think of the Circle Church being demolished is gut-wrenching to us locals who were brought up around this iconic building. We have seen weddings, church services, baptisms, memorials, child care, schooling and more happenings […]
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Letter to the editor: The irony is telling: Why is the Monterey County Board of Supervisors approving housing in flood zones?
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 […]