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Letters to the Community

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Letters to the Community, SOAPBOX

Letters to the Community: National Park Service Adopting Positive Action on Climate Change

LARRY KRAMER, San Juan Capistrano I just had a wonderful vacation in Yellowstone Park. What an amazing place. It is difficult to underestimate the foresight…

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Controversial Open Space Conundrum

ROGER E. BÜTOW, San Juan Capistrano I attended the first of two workshops hosted by the city a while back. I was blown away that…

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Recognizing Ostomy Awareness Day

CAROL BRINKMAN, San Juan Capistrano I am a bag lady! I have an ostomy bag! That means I had life-saving surgery to remove my cancerous…

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Enough Delays; Time to Build the Putuidem Village Cultural Center

JOANNA CLARK, San Juan Capistrano The Acjachemen Nation settled this area 12,000 years before our European interloper ancestors invaded and decimated the indigenous Native populations…

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Out & About

MIKE POURARYAN, Laguna Niguel Capistrano Unified School District never ceases to amaze me. In spite of the budget ravages of the last number of years,…

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Thoughts and Prayers: Do They Really Work?

TINA AUCLAIR, San Juan Capistrano  “I don’t understand, but I know my God does,” Pastor Frank Pomeroy, First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, said…

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When is Genocide Over in San Juan Capistrano?

DINA GILIO-WHITAKER, professor of American Indian Studies, Cal State San Marcos, and REBECCA ROBLEES, Acjachemen tribal member The San Juan Capistrano City Council’s backpedaling on…

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New San Juan Capistrano City Hall

RUTH CLARK, San Juan Capistrano I do not normally agree with Derek Reeve on anything, but his idea of selling the land on which the…

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I Have Had Enough

MICHELLE BROUGH, Dana Point For months, I stood by and watched my husband, Assemblyman Bill Brough, be dragged through the mud by his own political…

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How Many More Must Die?

JOANNA CLARK, San Juan Capistrano How many must die before Congress puts a stop to Trump’s xenophobic, hate-filled rhetoric—22 dead and 26 injured in El…

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Another Cookie-Cutter Mall

MICHAEL LAUX, San Juan Capistrano There has been a lot of discussion lately about what exactly we will get with a commercial shopping center on…

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What’s Wrong With River Street Marketplace?

JEFF VASQUEZ, San Juan Capistrano The Los Rios Specific Plan was created specifically to protect the homes in the Los Rios Historic District from the…

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Letters: The Open Space Issue

MARY ANN NEWHART HILE, Indio I was born and raised in San Juan Capistrano and have only lived in the desert for the past 12…

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Letters: Broken Treaties, Broken Promises

ROBERT BRACAMONTES, Montebello When people ask, “Where were you born?”, I say, “On my Ancestral land.” I was born Acjachemen. Today, we struggle to maintain control…

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Letters: Happy Birthday, Larry Kramer

JOHN A. CALDWELL, San Juan Capistrano We are celebrating Larry Kramer, who becomes an octogenarian this month.  Those of us who know and have worked…

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