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6A Daily News – Friday, May 31, 2013 Opinion DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U NTY S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Greg Stevens, Publisher gstevens@redbluffdailynews.com Chip Thompson, Editor editor@redbluffdailynews.com Editorial policy The Daily News opinion is expressed in the editorial. The opinions expressed in columns, letters and cartoons are those of the authors and artists. Don Polson Editor: I read Larry grays article in today's paper and absolutely agree. My main complaint about this opinionated wind bag is his constant slamming of union labor. His article in mid November concerning the Raley's strikers and organized labor was an absolute disgrace to our community, and in my opinion the Daily News. I've spoken to Richard Mazzucchi and Robert Minch concerning this man's employment history and I'm not very impressed. I have also sent Polson a rebuttal concerning his article and his union busting attempts, which I will send you also. A paid anti-union lobbyist could not belittle and humiliate more than this glorified sales man. He has and does continually talk out his butt in regards to organized labor. His opinionated rhetoric is about as in focus as a fundamentalist male Muslim's is on women's rights. Please shut off the gas and stop him from embarrassing our community any further. Maybe his writing skills would be more appreciated in maybe Orland or Corning or, better yet, another state. Terry Van Dyke, Red Bluff Use at-risk youth to clean up graffiti Editor: The recent article in the Daily News, "Gang graffiti escalating in Red Bluff" by Rich Greene, reports how the City Council, the RBPD and even a resident asked members and where they how his church could assist live and if that household receives a check in cleaning up and from the Tehama preventing the vanYour County Department dalism. of Social Services, Using the Tehama hold those houseCounty Probation holds responsible Department's at-risk to clean up the youth to clean up graffiti or lose their welfare gang graffiti is a start. It was reported the gang check and any other public graffiti is largely attributed subsidies they may receive. It's time for the taxpayers to the Surenos and Nortenos gangs. I am sure the com- to stand up and take back bined information of the our community and quit dolSheriff 's Office, District ing out money to support Attorney's Office, Probation this kind of activity and Department and the RBPD make welfare a hand-up have the identity of at least instead of a hand-out to some of the Surenos and worthless parasites. Or, we can leave things Nortenos gangs. Political correctness is the way they are and continnot going to solve this prob- ue reading gang graffiti and venture down to the River lem but it can be solved. If this community wants Park and watch a knife fight to solve the problem, use the at the risk of our own safety. Les Wolfe, Red Bluff identity on file of the gang Turn Letter policy The Daily News welcomes letters from its readers on timely topics of public interest. All letters must be signed and provide the writer's home street address and home phone number. 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Box 220 Red Bluff, CA 96080 Your officials STATE ASSEMBLYMAN — Dan Logue, 1550 Humboldt Road, Ste. 4, Chico, CA 95928, 530-895-4217 STATE SENATOR — Jim Nielsen, 2635 Forest Ave., Ste. 110, Chico, CA 95928, (530) 879-7424, senator.nielsen@senate.ca.gov GOVERNOR — Jerry Brown, State Capitol Bldg., Sacramento, CA 95814; (916) 445-2841; Fax (916) 5583160; E-mail: governor@governor.ca.gov. U.S. REPRESENTATIVE — Doug LaMalfa 506 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515, 202-2253076. U.S. SENATORS — Dianne Feinstein (D), One Post Street, Suite 2450, San Francisco, CA 94104; (415) 393-0707. Fax (415) 3930710. Barbara Boxer (D), 1700 Montgomery St., Suite 240, San Francisco, CA 94111; (510) 286-8537. Fax (202) 224-0454. Commentary Get thee to a computer Some readers write letters or call in their responses rather than send e mails. This is because either they do not have access to a computer… or they have never taken the time to learn the only efficient way of communication today. They are computer illiterate. This is not the same as totally illiterate, per se, but it is limiting in a number of ways. They protest they are either too old or too impatient. These folks are not about to learn new tricks. Regardless, we welcome all comment except from the permanently impaired who do not perceive me to be the reincarnation of H. Caen. *** Will Rogers on aging: "The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for." "Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me; I want people to know why I look this way. I've travelled a long way, and some of the roads weren't paved." And "One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it's such a nice change from being young." This is not a part of today's quiz, but what do Ronnie Lott (great 49er defensive back) Steve Mariucci (former coach of the 49ers) and yours truly have in common, but not with Steve Young or Joe Montana? I defy you to Google the answer to this one. Answer: We attended, last Saturday, the graduation of the Class of 2013 from Saint Francis High School in Mountain View. Amongst the graduates were Mr. Lott's daughter Chloe Jeanne, Mr. Mariucci's daughter Brielle Gayle and our grandson Cole Minch Dooley, son of Maralyn and Justin Dooley. We did not mingle with the Lott/Mariucci faction, nor were we invited to an after-graduation snack at their respective homes. And yet we were very proud of our grandson who graduated cum laude. As a side bar to the above, Cole was one of more than 400 graduates. In my day, there were not more than 400 in our entire RBUHS student body…and I did not graduate cum laude. Not even close. I was a yell leader one year, but that was not reflected on my diploma. Sigh. *** And speaking of proud (this column is beginning to sound like a Xmas card enclosure) may I direct your attention to the Sacramento Police Department's 2013 Commendation Awards Luncheon and Ceremony a week ago? We were there to honor our granddaugh- as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years. Futurter and police officer Natalie ists don't consider overDuckham who received a population one of the Bronze Medal of Valor for issues of the future. They her participation in a consider it the issue of the hostage situation last future." December. A suspect had *** entered a Jack in The Box Last week's quiz restaurant armed with a received no answers. Either handgun with intent to because of holiday activicommit robbery. Several ties or it was too hard. In customers fled along with any event, the answer to the three employees but the Robert poem is bat, cat, rat and suspect trapped two female ram. Also only the letter H employees inside the buildcannot be rhymed. ing threatening to shoot This week's quiz: What them if police entered. A is the only major vowel, SWAT and Hostage Negotiwhen sounded, begins with ation Team was initiata consonant, and what is ed…and Natalie conducted the negotiation phase until the suspect was the only letter in the alphabet that is soundisolated and "taken out" in police vernacu- ed with more than one syllable. *** lar. In the 13-man team singled out for the An engineer dies. Saint Peter checks his award, Natalie was the only woman, but decked out in badge, uniform and armed, dossier and, not seeing his name there, accishe appeared quite able to handle this dan- dentally sends him to Hell. It doesn't take long before the engineer gerous episode in her life. becomes rather dissatisfied with the level of *** In the 90 Years Ago Today insert: " H comfort in Hell. He soon begins to design Gardner, 82, was reported as being dragged, and build improvements. Shortly thereafter, feet first, 300 feet by a runaway team of Hell has air conditioning, flush toilets and mules, this being the second occurrence of a escalators. Needless to say, the engineer is a similar nature in the past two months. Mr. pretty popular guy. One day, God calls Satan and says: "So, Gardner was confined to bed suffering from multiple injuries." Well, I should think so. how are things in Hell?" Satan replies: "Hey, things are going Anyone in their 80s, let alone 70s, is going to take to their bed. This is not an old man's great. We've got air conditioning, flush toilets and escalators. And there's no telling sport. what this engineer is going to come up with *** A reader, and a critic of creative writing next." "What!" God exclaims: "You've got an in newspaper stories, thought that the "Violence" article on the front page of the DN engineer? That's a mistake — he should concluded with a rather fanciful conclusion never have been sent to Hell. Send him up to i.e. "Earlier Saturday, a 55-year-old man me." "Not a chance," Satan replies: was shot and killed at 165 S. Main St. in an God insists: "Send him back or I'll sue." incident the [police] department is calling Satan laughs uproariously and answers: suspicious." "Yeah, right. And where are you going to get I'll say it's suspicious. a lawyer?" *** Best selling author Dan Brown, when Robert Minch is a lifelong resident of asked in TIME about a theme of his latest Red Bluff, former columnist for the Corning book being overpopulation, responded as follows: "There is a statistic I heard a num- Daily Observer and Meat Industry ber of years ago, that if you know somebody magazine and author of the "The Knocking who is 85 years old, that person was born Pen." He can be reached at into a world that had a third as many people rminchandmurray@hotmail.com. Minch I Say