Happy with HotchkissThank you to Georgeanne Hotchkiss for a beautiful essay (“Mama and Me”, Cover Story, March 21), and to the Reader for being a venue for voices like hers.Jarrett HaleyRancho PenasquitosMemories stirred by “Mama …
Prunes are okayThanks to Ken Leighton, we now have the perfect description of traffic and how it should flow (“Unintended results of five roundabouts in Oceanside”, Neighborhood News, Feb. 26). He is complaining that five …
Reader seeker’s lamentWe’re long-time residents in San Diego, and one of the highlights of Wednesday has always been a walk to the local market to get our copy of the Reader in order to plan our …
School-stopping squawksGreat, fun article on birding in San Diego (“Parrots, Godwits, and Bushtits”, Cover Story, February 28). So nice to see an article that doesn’t involve guns or politics. I taught with Janis when PB …
Irregular haiku, inappropriate bioDear San Diego Reader, I often read your Events section, the Outdoors column, and I also occasionally read the Rhyme & Verse poetry of the week. This week in the (“Seventeen Haiku”, …
Old Surfer Dude recommends respectI feel I have the cred to comment on this article (“Kooks and Chaos”, Cover Story, February 8), since I have the experience, expertise, and age. What it comes down to …
Hope for the future?Holy crap, mere days after I wrote calling the Reader a right wing rag (for a stolen bike piece) you said “hold my beer” and published a sympathetic puff piece on Ashli …
Sorry, not sorry for Ashli and familyI know Babbitt is someone’s daughter/wife/friend, but Capitol police showed incredible restraint by not firing at will on this deluded group of thugs (“Questions Ashli Babbitt left behind”, Cover …
Wistful for WilkI want to say thank you to David Levinson Wilk, whose final crossword appeared in an early January edition of the Reader (Crossword, January 4, 2024). For years, Wilk’s puzzles were much more fun …
Piqued Potato Chip populist protestsRyan Brothers, we get it. All of your journalists, (I mean you too, Siobhan), are displeased with the dystopian potato chip (“Potato Chip Rock from Poway”, Roam, January 5, 2024). While …
Chatter Box edition
Voicemails received at the Letters to the Editor extension. To leave your own audio letter, call 619-235-3000, x460.
Divine
Voice mail to the editor concerning Shadow Mountain Church in Hillcrest.
Oxymoronic
Audio version of letter to the editor, "Oxymoronic," by Saul Harmon Gritz
Jackass Journalism
Letter to the editor voicemails received at the San Diego Reader.
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COPS Training video
This video explains the Snapshot Protocol, a procedure which can be deployed in any CA county and in many states. This seminar was conducted in San Diego on Oct 12, 2014 in preparation for the November 2014 election cycle.