Environment
A Point Worth Repeating
Ventura County Reporter (June 16, 2008)
We hate to sound like a broken record, but we’ll say it again: If Americans want to find a lasting solution to the current energy crisis and remain leaders on the world stage, they need to stop looking to short-term solutions and make serious sacrifices.
Hopefully more than a day
Ventura County Reporter (April 17, 2008)
Despite growing enthusiasm for upcoming Earth Day celebrations, we cannot just participate in a flurry of cleanups and tree plantings and believe we’ve done something to save the Earth. We must — all of us, this publication and its staff included — fundamentally shift our behavior and our expectations if we desire a future we will want to celebrate.
Exemption not just a threat to whales
Ventura County Reporter (Jan. 17, 2008)
The Bush administration’s exemption of the U.S. Navy from coastal protection rules doesn’t just endanger marine mammals; the executive branch’s failure to recognize the will of legislators and the courts – coequal branches of government which have weighed in emphatically on the matter – threatens the regional economy’s prospects.
Get informed about LNG debate
Ventura County Reporter (Sept. 27, 2007)
Opponents and supporters must stay involved in approval process.
We’re history
Ventura County Reporter (May 22, 2008)
It is important for the community to take a moment to decide what elements of the world around them it wants to preserve as progress marches forward.
A measure we can support
Ventura County Reporter (March 6, 2008)
In today’s age of paid political signature gatherers, we are leery about ballot initiatives. However, the campaign to stop Wal-Mart and other large retailers with non-taxable inventory from setting up shop in Ventura is an effort we can put our support behind.
“Shop local” doesn’t mean a rule
Ventura County Reporter (Nov. 21, 2007)
Spend your holidays shopping dough in your hometown, at local retailers. Buy your gifts from businesses owned by people who live down the street from you, whose kids play on your kids’ soccer teams. Shop with those people who are going to take the money you spend to pay for services from your law firms, to fix their cars at your garages and to pay for the teeth cleanings you perform.
Losing Touch
Ventura County Reporter (Oct. 18, 2007)
Rencher’s outburst taints watchdog’s image.
Hear all voices
Ventura County Reporter (Sept. 13, 2007)
Community representatives should have been invited to panel.
Wake up RiverPark
Ventura County Reporter (Aug. 9, 2007)
Developers need to get a clue, and a geography lesson.
Two candidates, two futures
Ventura County Reporter (July 5, 2007)
Halter and Morehouse offer unique perspectives, but also questions.
Politics, Elections and Activism
Sometimes a surprise is just a surprise
Ventura County Reporter (June 12, 2008)
Bitterness and conspiracy theories about candidate’s surprise primary victory on the part of one of her opponents and members of the local media are misguided and counterproductive.
Out of control: Vote no on 98
Ventura County Reporter (May 29, 2008)
Proposition banks on uninterested voters.
Let the show go on
Ventura County Reporter (May 15, 2008)
It serves no one who supports Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or the Democratic party (or democracy in general) to insist the West Virginia primary was irrelevant. Likewise, it does nothing but harm for the cause of enfranchising the un-enfranchised to insist Clinton terminate her bid early, before remaining ballots are cast. What message would it send to those states to suddenly cease this incredibly tight, compelling contest only weeks before its end?
On involvement
Ventura County Reporter (May 8, 2008)
Those who would rather complain than build community networks, become directly involved with their government or otherwise take action toward change should be ignored as the apathetic, annoying whiners that they are.
The Fact is You Should Question the Facts You’re Given:
Ventura County Reporter (Feb. 2, 2008)
Misrepresentative manipulation of the public’s worries and emotions endangers society.
Election system needs an overhaul
Ventura County Reporter (Jan. 25, 2008)
Whoever is ultimately elected this fall should prove that they are truly interested in democracy by doing everything they can while in office to pursue changes such as instant run-off voting, a workable publicly-funded campaign finance system, debate reforms and other moves to level the electoral playing field. That would be a true change, and true leadership.
Double-Edged Olive Branch
Ventura County Reporter (Oct. 4, 2007)
Violent threats don’t become peace activists.
The Perversion of Truth:
Ventura County Reporter (Sept. 6, 2007)
Question the answers, and question the questioners (a response to the 9/11 truth movement).
Voting fraud, six months removed
Ventura County Reporter (Aug. 2, 2007)
Report shows dangers still exist with electronic voting.
Clean money means fair elections
Ventura County Reporter (June 14, 2007)
The clean election system works in Maine. It works in Arizona. Isn’t it time to make it work in the largest, most diverse state in the country?
Transportation and Infrastructure
Misinformation campaign
Ventura County Reporter (Feb. 28, 2008)
When a wide assortment of the county’s bankers, elected officials, executives, real estate agents and other big wigs all gather for breakfast, one can’t expect they’re very interested in hearing bad news.
Not a laughing matter
Ventura County Reporter (Aug. 23, 2007)
Bridge ceremony holds little meaning with infrastructure crumbling.
On a road to nowhere
Ventura County Reporter (July 26, 2007)
Simply put, too many people want to go too many places. Too many people want to live in Ventura County and work elsewhere. Until such a time that transportation and urban planners focus on getting commuters to either stay home or get out of their cars we will continue to have a broken transportation system.
By foot, bike, or bus
Ventura County Reporter (May 17, 2007)
The benefits of using transportation alternatives for commuting in Ventura County.
Our Daughters at Risk:
Ventura County Reporter (March 13, 2008)
Three million of our daughters, sisters, nieces and granddaughters may suffer from illnesses which are dangerous, sometimes deadly, often incurable and almost always preventable, all because we live in a society still completely incapable of speaking frankly about sexuality and personal health.
Start talking, start listening
Ventura County Reporter (Feb. 21, 2008)
After Larry King’s murder in an Oxnard classroom last week what really can be written?
Get Out of Our Bedrooms, Get Into Our Hearts:
Ventura County Reporter (Feb. 14, 2008)
Resolve to love those around you and resolve to let those around you love as they wish.
Ventura turns a blind eye to LGBT community
Ventura County Reporter (Aug. 30, 2007)
As other communities celebrate, local agencies and figures miss out.
How much is your love worth?
Ventura County Reporter (June 5, 2008)
The abandoning of family pets due to the foreclosure crisis illustrates the seriously shortsighted nature of how we live our lives.
Find a real problem
Ventura County Reporter (May 1, 2008)
Video games aren’t the cause of violence.
You get what you pay for
Ventura County Reporter (April 24, 2008)
State needs to muster the courage to invest in our future.
Five down, how many more?
Ventura County Reporter (March 20, 2008)
Iraq war leaves many questions, few answers.
New Year’s resolutions from the Reporter
Ventura County Reporter (Jan. 3, 2008)
We’ll offer New Year’s resolutions for the community in the hope that they will inspire at least some small change in society.
Losing a voice
Ventura County Reporter (Dec. 27, 2007)
When word came through the Reporter’s office on Christmas Eve that Jeffrey W. San Marchi passed away Dec. 23, we were struck by the tragic poetry of the news. San Marchi — the owner, publisher, and editor of the Ojai & Ventura Voice — died while distributing his publication.
Freedom not the sole domain of the religious
Ventura County Reporter (Dec. 20, 2007)
Americans who believe all people, whatever they do, or do not, believe should be judged by their faith, and not by any factor beyond the actions they have taken in their lives, the efforts they have made for their neighbors and communities, and their ability to forgive and work to be forgiven, do not believe in freedom and justice for all.
Collateral crisis
Ventura County Reporter (Oct. 11, 2007)
If you care about this country. If you care about your fellow citizens. If you care about preventing hatred from perverting the land and people that you love, fight back. Say no to racial profiling, no to “collateral” arrests, no to a climate of fear.
It can happen here
Ventura County Reporter (July 12, 2007)
One year on, Santa Barbara News-Press fiasco exposes the tenuous state of local media.
Courting independence
Ventura County Reporter (June 28, 2007)
Much of our society — a woman’s ability to exercise the same rights as a man, the balance between free enterprise and opportunity for labor, freedom of speech, to name just a small slice — hangs on the precipice between this court’s conservative majority and its more liberal minority. But those who bemoan the court’s new makeup as just another cog in the machine of a vast right-wing conspiracy miss the point.
Memories of Larsen leave their mark
Ventura County Reporter (June 7, 2007)
Remembering the Reporter‘s beloved film critic.
