Letters to the Editor 12-23-21
Stick to the facts Dear ER: As someone who covered school board meetings for more than a decade for a local paper, including school districts in El Segundo, Wiseburn, and Manhattan Beach during the Manhattan Beach Board tenure of the great Bill Fournell, I did take a bit of umbrage to the obvious slanting of coverage of the recent MBUSD school board meeting (“Parents erupt at school board meeting, ER Dec. 9, 2021). Maybe times have changed, but when I wrote about the school board meetings, I was told to write “just the facts, maam,” and not interject my own political beliefs, or try to refute opinions that you did not adhere to. I’m glad I am retired from covering the school boards in the South Bay. Duane Plank El Segundo Balance, please Dear ER This letter (“Civil War History,” ER Dec. 16, 2021) was an outrageously unbalanced critique of our fellow citizens. To put the word freedom in quotation marks to compare concerned tax paying citizens to domestic terrorists takes some convoluted thinking. Since this pundit thinks January 6 is the reason for the “season of discontent,”I would refer her to the 1971 bombing of the capital by the “peace” group the Weather Underground or the…
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