UDJ issues apology for Lake County commentary
On behalf of The Ukiah Daily Journal, we wish to apologize for comments published in our public forum and editorial pages regarding Lake County. We publish many competing opinions, and as such, they are not automatically our view, but rather that of the individual writer.
Many of us in Mendocino County are happy to live so close to a wonderful place like Lake County. We are economically tied to your community”s success and many of us enjoy the recreational actives offered in Lake County.
Thank you for being great neighbors.
Kevin McConnell
Ukiah Group Publisher
Editor”s Note: Kevin McConnell is publisher of the Observer*American”s sister newspaper, the Ukiah Daily Journal, and both are members of MediaNews Group and the California Newspaper Partnership. McConnell”s letter is in reference to a commentary by columnist Tommy Wayne Kramer, which appeared in the Daily Journal”s Nov. 9 edition.
State assembly was opportunity of a lifetime
For the last six years, it has been my great honor to represent this area in the state Assembly.
It has been an extraordinary six years. We have been through a lot. We fought for road projects and river protection. We have struggled to close budget deficit after budget deficit. We have been through terrible forest fires, and have literally weathered the storms.
I have tried to help in big ways and small. I worked on the individual needs of those who sought my help. I wrote laws to protect our environment, to safeguard our senior citizens, to bring opportunity to our school children, to ensure patients” rights, and to help local government better care for people in need.
This really has been the opportunity of a lifetime, and I am eternally grateful for the privilege that has been afforded me, and the endless support I have enjoyed.
It is not easy to leave the Legislature, mainly because there is so much work left to be done. It has always been my nature to stick with projects until they are finished.
But the work of public service, by its nature, is never completed. It constantly calls to the next person and to the next generation to come lend a hand, to share the responsibilities of community life.
To those of you who would step forward and serve your community, I wish you well. And to all of you, please accept my sincere and heartfelt Thank You.
Patty Berg
State Assemblymember
Medical help and benefits prove elusive for some
I really would like to know who and where I can write a letter about medical services in Clearlake. I have never been so disappointed to be an American. I have a son protecting our country, and a husband who put in full benefits all his years of work. We paid our share all the way through. Now, I need medical help. Where I have been going for four years now, they want me to establish being a new patient because my doctor has left the office.
Nothing on my end has changed, but just now they want $120 to see me. All I wanted was an appointment, which they say I have to have to get my meds renewed. Needless to say, I live check to check and proudly survive in a content lifestyle. No, we don”t have extras. We just fight to keep what we have and don”t ask for more. There is no medical help for our kind. SSI gives my husband a cost of living raise and then raises his Medicare, and now he gets less than before his alleged raise.
I see and know people around here that have full medical, food stamps, and the best IHS, and they are more healthy than me and live better than me. How are these people getting all these benefits? I just want a refill on thyroid meds, Prozac and B.P. Medicine, and I can”t get it.
I am so fed up, and what about these people getting IHS? Walk to the bar and party and do whatever they want, get around a hell of a lot better than my husband who by the way does not qualify.
Patty Lopez
Clearlake
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The Clear Lake Observer*American welcomes letters responding to articles and opinions that have appeared in this newspaper, as well as on topics of general interest. Letters can be sent to ObserverAmerican@gmail.com or mailed to PO Box 6200, Clearlake, CA 95422. Please include complete name, address and telephone number. Anonymous submissions will be discarded.
