April 9, 2009 RSS feed / Letters

Spending money is a bad idea for the American people

I literally choked reading your editorial on March 26 ("People who can, should buy things.") The Acorn is now our local economic commentator. You must be out of your minds. More...

Schools should be the No. 1 priority, student says

Reading the April 2 letters which belittled the funding woes of the California education system, I became very close to irate. I am not a teacher, a school board member, a parent. I am not an administrator. I am a student. More...

A charter school in Conejo Unified is an excellent idea

I just wanted to sit down and take a minute to address how strongly I feel about the opening of Meadows Art and Technology Elementary School (MATES). Last year my husband and I found ourselves in a quandary. More...

Saying no to Home Depot was a smart decision

Maybe there's hope for intelligent decision-making in local government. The rejection of a second Home Depot in Thousand Oaks gives me great encouragement that local leaders both think and listen before they decide. More...

Teachers must be paid if we want first-rate education

As hard as I try to refrain from writing to this paper because of the tiresome, predictably bitter responses that consistently come afterward, there always seems to be something that triggers a response from me. More...

Throwing money at schools won't solve the problem

Superintendent Mario Contini should study California history and math if he believes "crisis is the result of a fall in revenue, not a plethora of spending," (March 19 T.O. More...

Angry because the council rejected Home Depot

Now that the Thousand Oaks City Council and Do-it Center have shut down the Home Depot project because it wouldn't look as good as an abandoned Kmart, and create traffic, etc., I have a suggestion: Put in a larger Home Depot where Courte More...

Congress is once again out of step with Americans

There are two underreported financial stories. The first has witnessed no outrage. IBM Corporation announced on March 25, 2009, that it will lay off 5,000 U.S. employees. Many of the jobs are being transferred to India. More...