Zoning ordinancwere put there for a reason
      Electronic message boards 25 feet high with continuous-motion graphics? How ugly and tacky can Simi get? I'm afraid our lovely city is going down the dump. Afraid it will look like every other urbanized, overbuilt, overpopulated city in the U.S.
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Speak out against plans to build in the greenbelt
      According to an article in the Acorn last week, "Simi could reach build-out by next year," and Kim Hawking, the senior planner for the county of Ventura said, "We don't have enough vacant land within the SOAR (Save Open Space and Agricultural Resources) boundaries to accommodate...
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Wants police to take mail box crime seriously
      Thank you for your informative article concerning theft of mail from mailboxes. Unfortunately, my neighborhood has been dealing with this issue for a few years. The response of the police has been to refuse to take a report, with the excuse: "The cost of the paper of the check is o...
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Creating a drug problem where there isn't one
      Question: Historically speaking, what is the biggest single cause of drug epidemics among U.S. children?
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Salvia article is inaccurate, sensationalized
      "Parents warned of new, legal hallucinogenic drug." This is poor sensationalized journalism at its very worst. It is obvious no fact checking was done whatsoever. Salvia does not activate the "same receptors in the brain that cause dependence" as opiates. This is factually inco...
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Many illegal immigrants don't pay what they owe in taxes
      Patsy Lowe wrote: "Most illegals do pay income and Social Security taxes." I've heard that point of view before and what is never mentioned is this. These workers simply claim large numbers of dependents so that their federal and state income tax is lowered to almost nothing.
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