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  • Final chapter of love affair with petroleum

    Try, if you will, to visualize the world financial markets as a playground seesaw. On a day when the price of a barrel of crude oil falls a couple of bucks, the Dow Jones industrial average rises a couple of hundred dollars.

  • Slamming the door on property rights

    When I was a kid, much of the South County was still being farmed. Nowadays, the area is one piece of urban sprawl. Like other areas of Southern California, it is difficult to discern where one town ends and another begins.


  • TODAY'S LETTERS

      More trouble on the 166?

      This regards signage on West Highway 166.

      Six-day War led to 9/11

      Actions always cause reactions, and we never know how far-reaching they will be.

      The governor a capitulator?

      In response to Gov. Schwarzenegger’s agreement with environmentalists in not allowing the U.S. to drill for oil offshore, I remind the governor that the best way to grow our economy is bring new money into the state.

      Good and bad in war nation

      I am taken by the novogenerian from Guadalupe and her enduring love of country, as expressed in her recent letter.

      Slowing down for the economy

      According to many, the U.S. economy is in a perilous state. At the root of this evil? The high price of oil.


    CITIZEN COMMENTARY

    Flag treatment is shameful

    I was absolutely disgusted recently by what I saw. I was at our local DMV office fixing another one of their mistakes when I noticed our American flag crumpled into a ball on the top step of a small ladder, where people step.

    I think this is shameful, and someone should answer for this, especially in this so-called All America City.

    Robert Chetwood

    Orcutt



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