RACY PROFESSOR
The race riots at Jordan High and other schools in the last few years simply underscore MacDonald’s premise [Will Swaim’s “Where’s the Heroic Defender of the White Race?” April 9]. When push comes to shove, race matters. It always has and always will, no matter how many liberals who live away from the [...]

This Week: P-T, P-T and more P-T
Marvelous story, Dave [Dave Wielenga’s “‘Dad Roasts Devil Tot’: Remembering When the Press-Telegram Was the Most Important Paper in Town,” April 2]. I enjoyed it as much for the writing as I did the content. Your insight, your thoughts on the industry—couldn’t agree with them more. The P-T could [...]

“And what a wonderful parking lot it will be . . . (sigh)”
DOIN’ WHAT COMES NATURAL
As a member of Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust, I was truly moved by Dave Wielenga’s “With Hope as Strong as Certainty” [March 26]. Most people hurriedly drive by those pristine acres without a glance either right or left. For [...]

“Now tell me again how your war on fecal coliforms is going”
DOOM ME AGAIN, HARDER
Wow, your March 19 cover [the monochromatic once-and-future Armageddon designed by Matt Frazier and Heather Swaim for Megan Brescini’s “When It Comes” earthquake story] was the best ever. Keep up the good work.
JAY WEBB
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Sue Hough, a United States Geological Survey [...]

SEX OFFENDED
When it comes to laws that involve sex offenders, the passions of the majority must be tempered with reason [Theo Douglas’ “Interview With a Rapist,” March 12]. Overborne by a mob mentality for justice, officials at every level of government are enacting laws that effectively exile convicted sex offenders from their midst with little [...]

“Yes, it makes the mind weary some days—but why do you think they call it work?”
CAN’T SPELL “PITY” WITHOUT “P-T”
There’s so much coverage now about the most recent cuts at the Press-Telegram [Dave Wielenga’s “What’s the Story with the Press-Telegram?” March 5]. Where was all this attention last year when they let go of their [...]

DEADLY GAME
Thanks for connecting the Marriage Protection Act and the tragedy in Oxnard [Steve Lowery's "Vector Control," Feb. 20]. Unfortunately, power in this country-pastoral and political-usually flows to creators of the “inhuman,” whether those “monsters: be nonbelievers, homosexuals, Democrats or Republicans. As of now, the deaths of experimenting 14-year-olds, and the wasted futures of the [...]

RETRO FIT
Howard Linn & Jan Van Dijs are what this area is all about, and thanks to Suja Lowenthal and company for letting them proceed with their visions [Theo Douglas’ “The Last Picture Show,” Feb. 20]. I hope that Retro Row can expand west to the businesses just west of Walnut. It makes sense to [...]

SEXBACK (SEXY FEEDBACK)
I see the Bluff Park Sailor listed as one of Long Beach’s sexiest [“Long Beach Sexiest People,” Feb. 6]. I’m thinking “Well of course, duh,” but then I thought, “Why not the Long Beach Museum of Art’s Yellow Baby?” Or is that just wrong?
M. B. HILL
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THE EDITOR RESPONDS If Big (Yellow) Baby [...]

VOTING BLOCK
I’m a big fan of The District, that said, I was greatly saddened with Allison Baldwin’s article dismissing the power of voting [“Vote Schmote,” Jan. 30]. I have a 13-year-old son who is recovering from cancer and putting all his energy into maintaining his academic status, let alone his social life. He is apparently [...]