Letters to the Editor
Letter: Consider low-income housing alternative
Comments | RecommendRather than proceeding with Yuba City’s proposal to buy distressed homes for low-income families, which inherently will have a tendency to create slum areas or slum appearances, a better solution might be to purchase new modular homes for the designated...
Letter: Old campaign signs quite irritating
Comments | RecommendI heartily agree with Ilga Whealy’s Nov. 13 letter (”Campaign signs need to come down”) regarding the campaign signs, etc. I have thought for many years that there should be some kind of regulation that must be complied with when...
Letter: Better fill up before gas prices rise again
Comments | RecommendThe A-D recent wrote: “Y-S gas prices drop $1.13 in a month on plummeting oil.” My first reaction was.... I wonder why? Why did they (whomever the ‘they’ are) drop the price of crude oil? Why do we view news with skepticism...
Letter: Political blood lust overwhelms reason
Comments | RecommendThe election is over! For better or worse the people have spoken and most races settled, I find a couple of contradictions have become obvious....
Letter: Putting new spin on global warming
Comments | RecommendHappily the world is taking another look at "global warming." It's regrettable that it took an economic meltdown for this to happen. The Oct. 24 Appeal-Democrat editorial, "Putting heat on faltering economy," lays it out very well. The global hysteria...
Letter: We are the economy; let's start fixing it
Comments | RecommendAccording to an Associated Press poll released Nov. 11, 72 percent of the American people voice confidence that the president-elect will "make the changes needed to revive the stalling economy."...
Letter: Lack of hygiene bugs restaurant customer
Comments | RecommendWithin the last two months, I have eaten at two different local restaurants that shared a similar problem: Both of the restaurants had employees who used the restroom and then left without washing their hands....
Letter: 4x4 block schedule makes most sense
Comments | RecommendYuba City Unified School District has decided to make RVHS and YCHS have the same schedules. They are looking at four different types: trimester, seven-period, A/B and 4x4 block. Looking for more reasonable opportunities for its students, RVHS prefers...
