By Joan Winters Los Angeles
(Re: Kevin Herrera’s Reporter’s Notebook, “Repeat offenders are killing us softly,” March 1, page 3) I am bothered by Kevin Herrera’s triteness in covering the Santa Monica City Council meeting on Feb. 27. Yes, those meetings last well into the evening, but maybe he is writing too much at your paper and is feeling burned out. An example would be his coverage of the Santa Monica Airport’s safety issues brought before the council. Fifteen residents, from both sides of the airport, in Santa Monica as well as Los Angeles, sat through several hours of the meeting so they could be heard by the City Council. They were finally able to start speaking around 11 p.m. They obviously felt the safety issues at that airport were worth hanging around for, after all, if a jet crashes on either end of the runway, which doesn’t have any safety areas, nearby residents are going to have to deal with many lives being lost.
I am sorry that Kevin (Herrera) didn’t want to hear us speak.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 3, 2007. Read the original PDF.