Community Input

Is PMCPOA Operating in ‘Stealth Mode’?

From the February 4, 2022 Edition

Chairman Bill Lewis II has been invited to comment on this letter, and its request that all STR meetings be open to PMC members.

January 28, 2022

Dear Editor:

Is the Pine Mountain Club …

What is Local v. National News?

From the January 28, 2022 Edition

January 17, 2022

Dear Editor:

What distinguishes local from non-local news in this interrelated and interdependent world? The situation today is far more ambiguous than when the paper was founded in the 1960s.

For example, …

Library ‘home delivery’!

From the January 28, 2022 Edition

By Marcy Axness, TME

The Kern County Library (KCL) is offering Zip Books, a free alternative to ILL (interlibrary loan). Through June 30, Kern residents with a valid library card in good standing may make requests …

State-Run Healthcare in CA?

From the January 28, 2022 Edition

January 20, 2022

Dear Editor:

Today, California’s Assembly Committee on Appropriations advanced Assembly Bill 1400, a measure that creates a government-run single-payer healthcare system. To implement this measure, an estimated $163 billion in new taxes …

Help with Rent

From the January 28, 2022 Edition

January 26, 2022

Dear Editor:

The Housing Authority of the County of Kern (HACK) is re-opening the Housing Choice Voucher program waiting list on Friday, Jan. 28. The program, also known as “Section 8,” provides …

No Mask and No Vax Mandates = Freedom

From the January 21, 2022 Edition

January 17, 2022 Dear Editor:

I want to share this invitation with your readers.

There is a march this Sunday, Jan. 23, in Washington, DC: “Defeat the Mandates: An American Homecoming.”

I feel 100% aligned …

Afghanistan Was An Invasion

From the January 21, 2022 Edition

January 4, 2022 Dear Editor:

Not to be a spoil sport, but deferring to accuracy, your December 17 headline is incorrect [“20 years ago, Cody Prosser among first to die in Afghan war”].

Prosser was …

Should We Control Our Feelings?

From the January 14, 2022 Edition

January 3, 2022 Dear Editor:

I’m writing to you about an article by Kenneth Fales in the December 31, 2021, issue of The Mountain Enterprise  [“OpEd: Thoughts about Personal Responsibility”].

According to several articles I looked up …

It’s Complicated—But It is Essential

From the January 14, 2022 Edition

This letter is part of our National Newspaper Assn. award-winning ‘California Burning’ series, first published in 2020. The issues remain urgent.

October 13, 2020 Dear Editor:

At the very top of our To-Do lists for …

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

From the December 24, 2021 Edition

December 21, 2021 Dear Editor:

Just wanted to let you know that The Mountain Enterprise is appreciated. I cannot imagine the time, energy and effort that you expend every day to provide our Mountain Communities …