Bad decisions are getting to be a habit in city hall
      Which is it? The mayor of Thousand Oaks has been quoted as stating, "The city of Thousand Oaks is in outstanding financial condition. We're not experiencing hard times. We're not having cash flow problems." He also said, "Revenues and expenditures have come to a collision point.
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Parents the best teachers about sex and drugs
      All parents need to be aware that Dolores Didio's actions, while regrettable and inappropriate, are about the same as what the Conejo Valley Unified School District does to our elementary schoolers every year. DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) takes away from my child's academic p...
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Christian fundamentalists have been poorly served by the people they've embraced
      "A society that has run wild with no accountability . . ." That's what Mr. Tasker fears if the secular progressives have their way ("Values, beliefs and public schools are being threatened by a new menace," T.O.
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Only conservatives believe their own news sources
      Bob Paul's June 21 letter ("Wilson lied about the facts") citing Ken Timmerman and newsmax.com as his source on the Wilson/Plame debacle appears to be another case of the rightwing blogisphere repeating themselves. Newsmax is a right-wing "news source.
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Let young people beautify the sound walls with a mural
      Here's a thought on the 23 Freeway sound walls: instead of complaining how the taggers have already begun the onslaught of graffiti, maybe we should try to work with the local youth to come up with a mural. I truly believe that many of these taggers have quite a bit of creative tale...
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Christian event didn't get the attention it deserved
      Thank you for the picture in the June 7 edition titled "Improving our community," where volunteers are shown washing windows on a motor home. Unfortunately, your attempt at reporting missed the boat. Your two sentence description of "Saturday's volunteer project, Taking It to the Streets" tell...
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Scripture not the right source to defend marijuana
      In answer to the letter written by Stan White in the June 28 Thousand Oaks Acorn ("DARE tells lies about marijuana"): Thank you, Stan, for knowing God created all things, not by evolution. You failed to tell the end of the Genesis record or you would be glad that we have laws and p...
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