• Letter from London: Letters from Everywhere

    Despite writing this letter each week, I still wonder why so few of us write real ones anymore. I was thinking of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, who corresponded frequently but met only once: ‘The present racial crisis in this country carries within it powerful destructive ingredients that may soon erupt into an uncontrollable explosion,’ More

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    SBUSD and SBTA end second labor negotiation meeting Wednesday

    The Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD) and the Santa Barbara Teacher's Association (SBTA) continued working through a January impasse based on wage disputes and special education conditions Wednesday.

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    Santa Maria declares impasse in labor negotiations with local firefighters union Thursday

    The City of Santa Maria declared an impasse in negotiations with Fire Fighters Union Local 2020 on Thursday which means the parties will now enter the mediation process.

  • Netherlands likely to get new Cabinet by mid-May, coalition negotiators say

    The two people leading negotiations between four political parties to form a coalition government in the Netherlands said they are confident that a Cabinet will be formed before their mid-May deadline. The discussion moderators, Richard van Zwol and Elbert Dijkgraaf, said on Monday that the talks are progressing between the PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB."We are taking the road up to the top," Dijkgraaf said after speaking with three of the four parties. "And we are quietly cycling on."

  • Texas Labor Market shows steady growth, record high levels for jobs and labor force

    As reported by the Texas Workforce Commission, the Texas labor market maintained momentum in March to each a 36th consecutive month of positive annual growth and set new record-high levels for jobs, Texans employed, and the civilian labor force.

  • Letters: More housing

    Mercury News Letters to the Editor for April 12, 2024

  • A letter to readers

    Dear Reader, I’m pleased to share the good news which we shared with the L.A. Times staff yesterday that Terry Tang has been appointed executive editor of the Los Angeles Times. Terry’s name may already be familiar to you. She joined The Times in 2019 and has served as editorial page editor since 2022. In December I decided that a change in editorial leadership was needed and in January this year, I asked her to lead the newsroom on an interim basis, as we executed the planned newsroom...

  • Marshall Ramsey: Negotiations

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  • Letters: Bad for patients

    East Bay Times Letters to the Editor for April 12, 2024

  • Letters: Division in this country

    I have to say that as a Conservative American, I am literally stunned by the content of the letter submitted to the Tribune by Chuck Wieland. Perhaps I can also say that I was disgusted and disappointed.I have known Chuck for many years and have always had the utmost amount of respect for him. He was a successful attorney and judge, and raised a great family. However, I find his comments about supporters of Donald Trump have really stumped me that he could sink so low in his criticism. To use...

  • Letters to the Editor: Help a neighbor

    In response to editorial on ceasefire I read today’s paper while visiting my in-laws in Lowell and your recent editorial called for a permanent Gaza ceasefire, did not include hostage release. First, Hamas repeatedly declared its intention to carry out multiple Oct 7ths and called for Oct 13th as a day to kill Jews a […]

  • Letter: Keep God out of our government

    Don’t fly religious flags on city-owned property.