more letters to the editor
Lip service isn’t leadership
Oct 01, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Thank you for keeping the Big Dumb Canal Plan, otherwise known as the BDCP, on the front pages. And thank you to Bruce Connelly for taking the time to stay personally involved.
Antioch trashing undeserved
Oct 01, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Antioch is a city with a small-town ambience, proudly diverse with an involved, talented and friendly citizenry. Know us and you’ll like us. I say enough is enough. Let’s end the undeserved out-of-...
Water woes
Oct 01, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Brentwood should have spent more of our money on water treatment instead of glorified office buildings and a new garbage transfer station. If you smell chlorine in your water, take action for your ...
Suburban sprawl isn’t what we had in mind
Oct 01, 2009 | 10 10 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
The city leaders have been on growth hormones since Oakley inhabitants decided we were being ignored by the county and voted to incorporate.
Council caving to high-density slam
Oct 01, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Let me tell you folks of Oakley: Discovery Builders are here in our town to slam in as many homes as they can and your City Council is going to let them do it. This council is not listening when th...
Backing the grapplers
Oct 01, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
On behalf of the Delta Wrestling Club, we would like to thank the businesses and community members for graciously donating gifts and raffle prizes, and participating in sponsorship opportunities at...
Transparent as a brick wall
Sep 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
With the recent controversy and ultimate resignation of Van Jones, President Obama’s Green Jobs Czar, perhaps it is an appropriate time to reflect on the current administration’s use of the positio...
Knox Lane project not wanted
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
After speaking to each of you, we know that the people of Oakley do care about our city and want low density, well thought-out developments.
A shocker
Sep 24, 2009 | 4 4 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
The fact that our CSD board decided to hire the highest bidder to revamp the current Web site was not so surprising, but when the other bids came in at $6,100 and $7,000 and the winner was a bid of...
It’s not about the swing
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
It seems everywhere you look in Discovery Bay, you can see it decaying. Maybe we should all stop and think about why we moved here, to (bring) that small-town feel back to the place I call home.
Park pruning party
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
A great big thank you to the residents, businesses, and property owners in the Bethel Island area who have again financially supported the ongoing maintenance of the Bethel Island Park.
Thanks to car show supporters
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
With the help and support of these people, we were able to raise a cash donation and collect six boxes of toys for this upcoming holiday season.
Teachers give hope for the future
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Why do you live in Antioch? We stay because of the people like these who support our community and schools. They give meaning and hope for the future.
Are you kidding me?
Sep 17, 2009 | 15 15 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
I had to re-read the part about NIA being selected not with the lowest bid, but with the highest bid! Higher by 300 percent of the next lowest bid!
Action, not ‘answers’
Sep 17, 2009 | 2 2 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
The council’s tactic of promising to answer questions while ignoring the underlying objections to the project was an insult to the intelligence of all concerned citizens in attendance.
Looking forward to building Web site
Sep 17, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
I wanted to take a moment to thank the CSD Board for selecting our company, NIA Creative, to design and develop the Town’s new Web site. I know we will do a terrific job, and will deliver a site th...
Against the grain of green
Sep 17, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Our City Council proclaims that it wants Oakley to be a green city. How – by destroying trees, overcrowding homes and destroying animal habitats?
No Canal (for now) – but what about 2-Gates?
Sep 17, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
The canal’s defeat last week in Sacramento means that the rush to destroy the Delta has been slowed down. And that there is hope on the horizon that more reasonable, rational minds will persevere a...
Socialized medicine not the answer
Sep 17, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Where is this money going to come from? Every American’s share of the current national debt is almost $40,000. Just the interest on our national debt is over $1 billion a day. This figure is projec...
Welcome home, angels
Sep 17, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Thank God! Jaycee, we finally got our miracle. We never dreamed it would take 18 years to bring you back, but you and your beautiful daughters are home and truly free!