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Tickets are a necessary fact of life
      Regarding "Are the cops ticket-happy?" (Jan. 22), I'm not sure I can properly articulate my complete disagreement with Julie Freeman's letter regarding speed and traffic traps. So I will begin by addressing her opening sentence. To quote, "We are all shocked by the huge increase in traffic traps as well as speed traps in our neighborhoods.
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Speeding not the only concern
      After reading letters in the Jan. 29 edition of The Acorn and all of the commotion stirred up by Julie Freeman, I just had to go back and read her Jan. 22 letter. If all our local friends and neighbors, including Ms. Freeman and her friends, obeyed our traffic laws there would be no need for "traffic traps," as Ms. Freeman calls them. Ms.
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Donors needed
      We think it is so important that families talk about how they feel about organ transplants. We must increase the supply of donors. Sara Hyman Calabasas
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Area not bad off
      The Acorn's editorial on Jan. 22 about the need for government cuts in a recession is so out of sync with the real world. This is a remarkably affluent community. Simply peruse the fantastic array of new and late model high end-priced vehicles in local shopping centers and on city streets.
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Vote for Wolfson
      At a time when businesses and schools are facing tremendous challenges, we are lucky to have the thoughtful and experienced leadership of Jon Wolfson in Calabasas. Jon looks at all sides of an issue and finds the best creative solution.
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Choice is Bozajian
      I am proud to endorse the candidacy of James Bozajian in his bid for reelection to the Calabasas City Council. His tenure as a three-term councilmember and three-term mayor has earned him respect from his council peers for his dedication and his knowledge, and from the citizens of Calabasas for his many achievements and his advocacy on their behalf.
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Mayor Maurer has track record
      I am supporting Mary Sue Maurer for reelection to the Calabasas City Council. Ms. Maurer has a good voting record on community, environmental and development issues. She has been responsive to citizen questions and concerns.
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Wanted: Killer of Calabasas canine
      On Sat., Jan. 17 my dog was attacked by another dog at the Calabasas Bark Park on Las Virgines Road. Dash died three days later of internal injuries. As soon as my dog was attacked I began screaming and trying to push the attack dog off of my dog.
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No, dogs aren't a nuisance
      I read, with interest, Ms. Fischer's article regarding dogs at the Oak Park schoolyards (Jan. 29).
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Pooper scoopers in hot soup
      This morning while walking my dog around Westlake Lake, coming down Three Springs Drive and onto Triunfo Canyon Road, I spotted 10 dog poops not picked up. Four of these were on residential front yards, two were under a "Pick up after your dog" sign and two on the sidewalk.
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Women's group says shop locally
      Conejo Valley Women is a membership-based organization comprised of women business owners and women professionals in the Conejo Valley. The creation of our company was inspired by the everescalating recession that has caused the closing of countless local businesses.
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Down with greed
      In learning about the greed of the CEOs of lending institutions taking large bonuses that were given to them by our government for the use of rebuilding the financial markets, I was appalled and disillusioned. How was it possible that our government gave these lending institutions billions of dollars without specific provisions? I am furious, to say the least.
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War on terror
      Israel is on the front line in the war against Islamic terrorists, an enemy that has sworn Israel's destruction, has sent suicide bombers into Israel and has sent thousands of missiles into Israel to kill as many civilians as possible.
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