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 [...]

86, 94
Shame on you for endorsing Prop. 94 [“Super Choose Day,” Jan. 30]! I’m all for giving back to the Native Americans for the centuries of abuse and ignoring of their plight by our federal government, which is why I’ll be voting yes on Props 95 though 97. But the rampant greed and power mongering [...]