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•LETTERS•
TIME TO ACT
We’ve been baking in an
unprecedented heat wave while other
parts of the world are flooding. For
years, climate science models such
as those being done right now at
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JPL have been telling us this would
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MORTIFYING ENTERTAINMENT
IN ALTADENA
BY CARL KOZLOWSKI
happen. The world can no lo longer
sustain the buildup of carbon dioxide
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District plan would close three
Kozy Korner is the place for an
Playhouse scares up a good
schools, cut sports at Blair
intimate Thai dinner
time with ‘The Woman in Black’
and methane in our air. It’s creating a
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SERVING PASADENA, ALHAMBRA, ALTADENA, ARCADIA, EAGLE ROCK, GLENDALE, LA CAÑADA, MONTROSE, SAN MARINO, SIERRA MADRE AND SO. PASADENA
suffocating blanket around the world
that even the oceans and the trees are no longer able to keep up with
and scrub from the atmosphere.
But we humans can start right now to do something about it. We
can begin locally to insist that we get no more of our energy from
carbon producing fossil fuels. Then Pasadena can proudly proclaim
that all its power is from 100 percent renewable energy. That’s what
Pasadena 100 stands for. That is what an enlightened population like
ours wants for our future and that of our children.
- CHRISTLE BALVIN
PASADENA
ALL LIFE MATTERS
A hungry child or senior that happens to be poor did not choose
poverty or going without. All lives do matter and with the aid of a few
good people, lives could be enhanced greatly — and yes, with charity.
We can do good works to end hunger right where we live.
Take an example of a woman living in the Deep South who worked
her whole life to save enough money and create a food share program
to feed hungry children. She collects donated food, prepares meals
(300 of them) and drives 100 miles a day to make deliveries. Why?
Because she FEELS it is her duty.
There are thousands of families here that go to bed hungry —
something is wrong with this picture.
All life matters.
- JAY NORTH
OJAI
BAD FIT
Re: Blasey Ford and
Kavanaugh: The general public
has no way to know which
of the two was telling the
truth except by their televised
presentation and their history.
Dr. Ford was unable to
recall some details of her
experience of decades ago, but
she was clear and consistent in
those eliciting traumatic fear.
Her manner was congruent
in every way of a woman
reliving a traumatic event
verbally in a public forum. Her
answers were responsive and
unequivocal. She corrected her
interrogator with appropriate
courtesy at times, as though
wanting to tell her story as
exactly as possible.
Clearly this woman wanted
simply to do her civic duty
and return to her remarkably
successful normal life, with
this behind her. No one
unearthed any other motive for
her accusation.
She came in with a
polygraph result and requested
the FBI investigate.
Judge Kavanaugh, on the
other hand, came across as
angry, self-pitying, evasive,
dodging many direct questions
with irrelevant remarks about
beer, and inappropriately
turning one question back on a
female senator.
He refused to back either an
FBI inquiry or a polygraph.
Understandably, the judge
was unhappy at the turn of
events. Who could blame him?
Apparently he had suffered
bullying and death threats by
anonymous partisans — as
had Dr. Ford. But his tirade
against Democrats allegedly
“seeking revenge for President
Clinton” suggests this man
would be entering high office
with strong prejudices against
parties most likely to come
before the court.
While Judge Kavanaugh
received a “very qualified” bar
association rating recently, in
past years he was downgraded
to “qualified,” citing just those
troublesome characteristics
exhibited in his testimony
— bias and lack of judicial
temperament.
This is not a man who
belongs on the high court.
- TERRY DEFARGE
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YES ON PROP. 6
I urge you to vote yes
on Proposition 6. This is a
grassroots effort to repeal
the increase in the gas tax by
12 cents per gallon and an
additional increase in the car
registrations fees by up to
$175. It has been estimated
by Reform California, the
committee leading the repeal
effort, that the average
family of four will pay $780
more per year in gas and
registrations fees. While Jerry
and his politician friends in
Sacramento are wasting our
car taxes on other things than
roads (like the bullet train),
they had the audacity to raise
the taxes even more! To place
this initiative on the ballot,
some 580,000 signatures
were needed. Through truly
grassroots efforts, over 1
million were collected to
qualify the initiative on the
November ballot.
In 1977 the average citizen
like you and me told the
politicians they were tired of
unfair taxes. So Proposition
13 was passed. Let’s tell
those Sacramento clowns
that “We are not going to take
this anymore.” Vote yes on
Proposition 6.
For more information, visit
gastaxrepeal.org.
- RICHARD GAGNE
VENTURA
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