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Entries Tagged as 'Letters to the Editor'
Food for thought
April 6th, 2012 · No Comments · Letters to the Editor
In your “Thoughts from the Publisher” column dated March 30, you wrote about the customer service you received at Café Bixby, an excellent place to dine.
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The meat of the matter
March 30th, 2012 · No Comments · Letters to the Editor
I was amused when I heard that the people who heard, or read, the reports on the additive “slime” in their meat products were horrified and vowed to not buy any meat product unless they are sure the product doesn’t contain any slime.
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The ‘little’ paper that could?
March 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Letters to the Editor
Yes, congratulations on your 12 years and counting, and an interesting 12 years it has been. I love your little, in size only, paper, and I look forward to it every week. You pick up and enhance the news in those “big guys’ paper,” which isn’t so big any more. Time and tide do take [...]
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His own private Idaho?
March 2nd, 2012 · No Comments · Letters to the Editor
The president of the California Fish and Game Commission, Dan Richards, whose mandate it is to protect native species, killed a mountain lion in Idaho and posed grinning with the carcass. It has been against the law in California to hunt mountain lions since 1990, so Richards is reported to have paid about $7,000 to [...]
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