Motorists will speed less often if they get tickets
      I'd like to comment on a letter written by Erik Nordquist in the Feb. 12 Thousand Oaks Acorn ("Are police officers writing tickets to raise city revenue?") I've had a similar experience as Mr. and Mrs. Nordquist but see a completely different side to the story.
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Cops are writing tickets to save lives of pedestrians
      After reading Mr. Nordquist's Feb. 12 letter to the editor about police officers writing tickets to raise city revenues, I just had to throw my two cents in from another perspective. I was walking on Thousand Oaks Boulevard that day. I noted all the activity that Mr. Nordquist alluded to, but it didn't "disturb" me.
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Election season starts early thanks to Acorn ediorial
      Did the Acorn editor start the 2010 Thousand Oaks City Council race? His recent attack on Thousand Oaks City Councilmember Claudia Bill-de la Peña appears to be a naked attempt to undermine the character of a minority incumbent up for reelection next year.
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School district staff is making poor recommendations
      It's business as usual in the Conejo Valley Unified School District (CVUSD). The fiasco over school closures, paranoia, fear of private education and planning to cope with diminished budgets and reduced student enrollment has apparently overwhelmed the existing decision-makers.
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Audience opposed Home Depot in huge numbers
      On Jan. 26, the Thousand Oaks planning commission met to vote on the Home Depot project on Hampshire Road. The auditorium was virtually full; there were about 400 interested parties in attendance. Approximately 90 percent wore a "No Home Depot" sticker.
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Defends her belief that Guantanamo is best for America
      In Ms. Jensen's letter of Feb. 5, several statements were made that lacked understanding of facts. Her assumption that American citizens were spied on solely on the "request" of President Bush isn't well founded. The fact is that Congress- both houses- approved and passed the Patriot Act that allowed suspected terrorist collaborators to be monitored.
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Conservatives have nothing to offer the country
      In response to Dawn Williams' and Kevin R. Stanley's letters to the Acorn published Feb. 12, I'm usually not one to write letters to newspapers because I disagree over what's being said, but these two letters deserve an alternative point of view.
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Shopping center didn't support local enterprises
      How can one insist local residents "Buy Local" at The Oaks when an ill attempt to utilize local contractors has been demonstrated? Close associates, as well as my dump truck service, Servant Trucking, were contracted to perform services for the Simi Valley Town Center.
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