Letter: Barbara Metzger’s recent passing leaves a hole in our hearts
Barbara Metzger’s recent passing has left a hole in the hearts of many.
Barbara loved Laguna and showed it by giving her time and energy...
Letter: Laguna’s ocean water quality is a public priority
On Wednesday, Nov. 29, approximately 95,000 gallons of raw sewage spilled out along our coastline areas from Laguna Avenue to Blue Lagoon.
With the...
Letter: A Roundup response
In his defense of glyphosate as non-carcinogenic in last week’s Indy, Mr. Reed offers very sweeping conclusions but no evidence in his column.
He...
Letter: LBUSD, why the rush to approve unpopular facilities master plan?
There was a LBUSD board meeting on Nov. 16 that received no media coverage; it should have. Ostensibly, the meeting was to provide an...
Letter: Frimond for city manager
Assistant City Manager Jeremy Frimond, born and raised in Laguna Beach, should be on the shortlist of candidates for our new city manager.
That is,...
Letter: Weiss deserves his day in court
In America, everyone is entitled to defend themselves and are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
So when I see residents wanting to act as the...
Letter: These are weird times
No question - these are weird times. Here we are mystically going through space on our planet and we are messing it up. I...
Letter: Woods Cove residents, vote for undergrounding
Each Woods Cove resident in the undergrounding district owes it to themselves to research the best possible vote for their property. Ten years ago,...
Letter: Be thankful for small interludes
With negativity and bad news seeming to be everywhere around us, I want to give thanks this Thanksgiving to someone whose positivity and kindness...
Letter: Gasparotti is misguided
JJ Gasparotti is misguided; his conclusions are based on false premises. After reading Billy Fried's imaginative but fact-free columns, he decided that Weiss was...
Letter: Personal interests have no place in leadership
The well-researched article in the Nov. 10 Independent by Clara Beard did a great job of reporting the facts:
1. Shohreh Dupuis claimed that council member George...
Letter: Response to Skip Hellewell’s column
If the white Christian patriarchy, as represented by Skip Hellewell in your paper, would like to see American women having more babies, may I...
Letter: Update on Nepal earthquake
Many donors, friends and supporters have contacted me to learn if the areas of R Star’s work were damaged or people killed. There were...
Letter: Sneaky little postcards
I was saddened but not shocked to learn that our city government isn’t making much progress on improvements to either the transparency or courtesy...
Letter: Bully for George
When Billy Fried’s column first outed George Weiss’s conduct towards our former city manager, Shohreh Dupuis, several months ago, I concluded that it was...