Anchor ads are not supported on this page.

4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs

You are shedding lights for San Diego

Most of us drive like crazy

"You will be killed."
"You will be killed."

Homelessly mental

Hey John Kitchin (“Not laziness, not mental illness, not alcoholism, and not mental illness,” Letters, December 12), I have been living in San Diego, CA at least 10 yrs now. I have to write this comment to let you know that myself and many others in America (I am sure) are grateful for editorial people like you. Your finding on mental illness, alcohol and homelessness is very refreshing to see because you are shedding lights for San Diegans, as well as Americans to read and aware and support this cause. As Americans we need to fix, support the Americans with mental, alcohol homelessness first, this issue I believe should always be discussed, and talked until there is a change. We need to care about this problem because I think the problems at home (as in the country) should be constantly worked on first, regardless of what is going on in the outside world of America. Someone has to give light to this mentally homeless issue, and you did just that. I have to say you did a superb job on writing about this mentally homeless letter and it is to the point, and long enough for everyone to read in a few minutes and be informed. Great job.

Sponsored
Sponsored
  • Chinh
  • Mira Mesa

Risky crossing

We have a crisis of denial in San Diego when it comes to admitting that most of us drive like crazy (“Torrey Pines Road – ‘so damn dangerous, ” Neighborhood News, December 14). I just turned 65 and feel like I’m 20 attributing my youth to not owning a car most of my life. I will admit however that I splurged on leasing a Smart Car for two since the rebates were well over $6000.00 For the better part of my life, I have participated in triathlon often training on San Diego roads having to tolerate mostly fat and hostile men driving oversized trucks in their twenties hurling every sort of epithet imaginable. So having returned from my second home in France a few weeks ago where riots occur almost daily over working conditions, I’m reminded that unlike the barbaric drivers in San Diego, I have never heard quite frankly of road rage and the routine killing of cyclists and pedestrians in Normandy. Ladies and gentlemen, we are sick. Yes, my fellow San Diegans, I repeat, we are sick! Before you comment consider that I remain one of few humans on the planet as a million mile club member having walked, run, swam and cycled one million miles in my lifetime and yes, I follow all traffic rules yet on a daily basis most of you try to kill me.

Daniel Joseph Smiechowski

Bay Ho

Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

Making Love to Goats, Rachmaninoff, and Elgar

"You will be killed."
"You will be killed."

Homelessly mental

Hey John Kitchin (“Not laziness, not mental illness, not alcoholism, and not mental illness,” Letters, December 12), I have been living in San Diego, CA at least 10 yrs now. I have to write this comment to let you know that myself and many others in America (I am sure) are grateful for editorial people like you. Your finding on mental illness, alcohol and homelessness is very refreshing to see because you are shedding lights for San Diegans, as well as Americans to read and aware and support this cause. As Americans we need to fix, support the Americans with mental, alcohol homelessness first, this issue I believe should always be discussed, and talked until there is a change. We need to care about this problem because I think the problems at home (as in the country) should be constantly worked on first, regardless of what is going on in the outside world of America. Someone has to give light to this mentally homeless issue, and you did just that. I have to say you did a superb job on writing about this mentally homeless letter and it is to the point, and long enough for everyone to read in a few minutes and be informed. Great job.

Sponsored
Sponsored
  • Chinh
  • Mira Mesa

Risky crossing

We have a crisis of denial in San Diego when it comes to admitting that most of us drive like crazy (“Torrey Pines Road – ‘so damn dangerous, ” Neighborhood News, December 14). I just turned 65 and feel like I’m 20 attributing my youth to not owning a car most of my life. I will admit however that I splurged on leasing a Smart Car for two since the rebates were well over $6000.00 For the better part of my life, I have participated in triathlon often training on San Diego roads having to tolerate mostly fat and hostile men driving oversized trucks in their twenties hurling every sort of epithet imaginable. So having returned from my second home in France a few weeks ago where riots occur almost daily over working conditions, I’m reminded that unlike the barbaric drivers in San Diego, I have never heard quite frankly of road rage and the routine killing of cyclists and pedestrians in Normandy. Ladies and gentlemen, we are sick. Yes, my fellow San Diegans, I repeat, we are sick! Before you comment consider that I remain one of few humans on the planet as a million mile club member having walked, run, swam and cycled one million miles in my lifetime and yes, I follow all traffic rules yet on a daily basis most of you try to kill me.

Daniel Joseph Smiechowski

Bay Ho

Comments
Sponsored
Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

2024 continues to impress with yellowfin much closer to San Diego than they should be

New rockfish regulations coming this week as opener approaches
Next Article

Summit Fellowship wants to be a home of belonging

Unitarian Universalism allows you to be exactly who you are in the moment
Comments
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed Big Screen — Movie commentary Blurt — Music's inside track Booze News — San Diego spirits Classical Music — Immortal beauty Classifieds — Free and easy Cover Stories — Front-page features Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts Feast! — Food & drink reviews Feature Stories — Local news & stories Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore From the Archives — Spotlight on the past Golden Dreams — Talk of the town The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it Letters — Our inbox Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news News Ticker — News & politics Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated Poetry — The old and the new Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers Reading — The hunt for intellectuals Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds SD on the QT — Almost factual news Sheep and Goats — Places of worship Special Issues — The best of Street Style — San Diego streets have style Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves Theater — On stage in San Diego this week Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads Your Week — Daily event picks
4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs
Close

Anchor ads are not supported on this page.