Small businesses help drive California

Small business owners are under assault in California from unelected and unaccountable government bureaucrats who aggressively use the California State Labor Code to levy fines or just bully business owners into submission. Business owners who have attended a series of job loss forums tell me that a hostile bureaucracy is one of their biggest problems.

We are so apathetic we let incumbents run unopposed?

In a hundred words or less, “run don’t walk” to the county clerk’s office and register to vote (the last day is May 24 for the June primary). If we can die and go broke in the name of democracy, how can we as citizens excuse ourselves from voting? How better to honor our service members?

Moral integrity is expected of Harbor District’s elected officials

Once again the Harbor District is being criticized in the letters to the editor. It’s not surprising since it takes more qualifications to get a driver’s license than it does to run for public office.

How can a few tire ruts in the sand be labeled ‘egregious’?

I consider myself a conservational conservative and I am appalled at the statement made in our paper by Dr. Peter Douglas. Dr. Douglas, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science and Policy for the Coastal Ocean and one who serves on the China-U.S. panel on integrated coastal management. He stated in your March 4 article (“‘Rogue behavior’ cited”), and I quote him, “This is the most egregious violation by a local jurisdiction that I have ever seen in the history of the Coastal Commission.”

Vaccinating children not about laziness/selfishness but choice

This letter is in response to the Feb. 28 letter written by Sarah Dumas (“Horribly selfish not to vaccinate”). Vaccinating your children is not about laziness or being selfish.

Don’t jeopardize Talking Crow

Regarding the March 2 article (“Harbor, studio in dispute over rent proposal”), Talking Crow Studio is the best addition to Del Norte County in years! It is all about art, sharing art, and has been a labor of love created by Rika Blue.

It’s a shame when a single mom has to replace vandalized tires

It is a shame when a single mom who is a full-time student and part-time CNA has to spend over $500 on a full set of new tires.

Not because they were worn and unsafe. Two of the tires still had 70 percent of the tread on them.

This mom is struggling to have the time and money to do everything that is needed day to day. To wake and get ready to go to work only to find that not only do you have a flat tire, you have four.