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Angry white people

Written on 7 May, 2011 in Opinion | 54 comments

OPINION By STACEY WARDE I always find it amusing, if not sad and a little trite, when someone claims, “I’m not a racist.” It’s usually followed by the qualifier “but…” and then a list of complaints about a particular ethnic... (Continue reading)

The Republican budget ends Medicare as we know it

Written on 4 May, 2011 in Opinion | 52 comments

OPINION By CONGRESSWOMAN LOIS CAPPS The federal budget deficit is a big problem, one that must be addressed to shore up our long term economic future.The issue is not whether we reduce the deficit, but how we do it. The... (Continue reading)

Hill explains Oceano resignation

Written on 28 Apr, 2011 in Opinion | 28 comments

OPINION By JIM HILL Several Oceano residents have asked my reasons for leaving the OCSD Board after 6 years. Details are in my resignation letter, available from the Oceano Community Service District as a public record. The most important is... (Continue reading)

The educational budget: What would Samuel Gompers do?

Written on 18 Apr, 2011 in Opinion | 9 comments

OPINION by Roger Freberg I have been reading some stuff put out by the California Faculty Association (CFA) on “teach-ins” and “protests” planned as a response to the CSU budget. Administrators are puffing themselves up and trying to act like... (Continue reading)

Diablo Nuclear Plant: Disaster Waiting to Happen?

Written on 7 Apr, 2011 in Opinion | 29 comments

OPINION By Jack McCurdy Approximately 27,000 people are either dead or missing as a result of the earthquake off Japan on March 11 and the resulting tsunami and destruction of nuclear plants there. Does that figure sound familiar? Baywood-Los Osos... (Continue reading)

Stop the rate increase

Written on 7 Apr, 2011 in Opinion | 20 comments

OPINION By John Borst, Ph.D. As many CalCoastNews readers may be aware, a Proposition 218 protest period has just ended in Paso Robles with the City Council deciding to go ahead with the water rate increase(s). That decision aside, I... (Continue reading)

Most things we hear about child rearing are wrong

Written on 26 Mar, 2011 in Opinion | 25 comments

OPINION by Roger Freberg When one first embarks on the role of parenting, hopefully it is with a sense of humility. This is one of the few tasks in life that we are expected to learn on our own. Learning... (Continue reading)

The U.S. is alone among western democracies in protecting “hate speech.” Chalk it up to a healthy fear of government censorship.

Written on 16 Mar, 2011 in Opinion | 14 comments

OPINION By PETER SCHEER – An inebriated John Galliano, sitting in a Paris bar, unleashes an anti-semitic rant (“I love Hitler”) that is captured on a cellphone camera and posted on the internet. Within days the Dior designer is not... (Continue reading)

Are you prepared for a disaster?

Written on 14 Mar, 2011 in Opinion | 4 comments

OPINION By BOB NEUMANN Japan’s devastating earthquake and resulting tsunami makes one wonder if an event like this could happen here on the Central Coast. The 2003 San Simeon earthquake, a much smaller 6.5 magnitude Richter scale event, caused significant... (Continue reading)

Want to be happy for the rest of your life? Marry the right person

Written on 13 Mar, 2011 in Opinion | 8 comments

OPINION By Roger Freberg When my middle daughter was a freshman in college, she had a poster on her dorm wall that listed ten things that would lead to a happy life. The item on top was “marry the right... (Continue reading)