Mailbag: We have questions about Corona del Mar parking meters

What’s happening in our fair city? Who had the votes to yank Councilman Keith Curry from the Finance Committee, and who in hell is pushing for parking meters on Ocean Avenue in Corona del Mar?

You want parking enforcement above the beach in CdM? Better think about using those central parking kiosks like you have on the Peninsula.

For goodness’ sake, we can’t believe anyone who has two brain cells to rub together would ask for parking meters. You want Newport Beach to look like Huntington Beach? They have hotels on the beach, not multi-million dollar homes!

The days of the buggy whip are over, folks. Try some new tech for a change? And where are the local resident stickers?

Wake up, people. Time to get into the 21st Century!

Ron and Anna Winship

Corona del Mar

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Vaccination film raises questions

On the recommendation of our daughter, my husband and I went to the opening of the documentary film “Vaxxed.” The main topic of the film is the connection of the Centers for Disease Control with the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. The MMR vaccine is routinely given to children from 12 to 15 months old.

We found the information in this film to be believable and quite disturbing. No matter what your viewpoint on the subject, we feel strongly that this is a film that all adults should see.

This is especially true in California because of the recent passage of Senate Bill 277, which requires, and indeed forces, all parents who want their children to attend private as well as public schools to inject their children with the MMR vaccine.

My husband and I understand the desire to keep our children safe from illnesses that can be threatening to their health. But we do not understand the refusal of the CDC to look at all the research and simply discount the concerns of parents of what they insist is just a few cases of problems with the vaccine.

We see it as a very serious matter and one that the CDC and pharmaceutical companies tragically are not willing to discuss or address at all at this time. We hope the showing and viewing of this film will cause that to change.

Jean and Lance Thompson-Hailstone

Costa Mesa

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Lawsuits cost us all in higher prices

Lawsuit abuse is a huge problem in this country, and most people do not realize how it is costing them. We need to think about how much lawsuit abuse is costing us.

Each year, every person pays a “lawsuit tax.” That’s money that may as well have been taken right out of our pockets.

The sheer number of lawsuits being filed throughout the country every year raises costs for businesses, which raises prices for every item that we purchase. If we do not push back on abusive lawsuits from greedy personal-injury lawyers, this problem is only going to get worse, and your lawsuit tax is only going to grow.

Patty Sharpe

Orange