Letters for November 23, 2017

Boomers were screwed

Re “Here’s why housing costs are so high” by Ben Christopher and Matt Levin (Feature, November 16):

About four decades of increased costs of living with virtually flat wages. Meanwhile my parents’ typical home’s appraised value went from around $150,000 to over $500,000 before the bubble burst. Luckily, we were able to sell but at a greatly reduced price. Most of my friends and myself were making about one-quarter as much working as our parents were on retirement. Don’t even try to tell me that we “boomers” weren’t also royally screwed by the elites. The rent on my apartment has gone up 50 percent in the last five years while I got a whopping $4 increase in Social Security because our wonderful lying government says there’s no inflation. The game IS rigged. Happy Holidays.

George Selkirk

Carmichael

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SN&R panders to feminists

Re “SN&R news article was deceptive” by Eric Johnson (Editor’s Note, November 16)

I was excited to see another article written by an incredibly caring and brave journalist and published by what I thought was and hopefully still is more concerned with relevant news and informing the public of issues that plague our society than with hidden agendas and favoritism towards special groups who use bullying as a tactic to hide the real truth of what’s going on. It’s honestly a shame that things were handled in this way. Cowering to people who actually profit from the misery of others and make their living on the backs of the destruction of lives including women, men and children is a disgrace. I think it’s fair to note that those men have been personally affected by a DVRO aka the silver bullet … however what you have done is gone beyond simply clarifying what needed to be said and taken the opportunity to try and shame these men and publicly hang them from the gallows with that biased one- sided notation made on the article.

Jeff Perry

Rio Linda

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Rest in peace

Re “Sacramento’s nightmare kitchen” by John Flynn (News, November 9):

What a disaster. Nursery school kids could run a better operation than these f$&kwads. Sadly, I am not at all shocked by this news considering the track record of the principal people involved since “Backbird Version 1.” A shame too because it always had great food and drink.

Michael MacKay

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Bye-Bye Bar Rouse

Re “Sacramento’s nightmare kitchen” by John Flynn (News, November 9):

More like Bar RUSE … am I right, folks?

Robert Berry

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Don’t slime celeb chef

Re “Sacramento’s nightmare kitchen” by John Flynn (News, November 9):

Carina Lampkin is a very talented chef and a very caring and giving person. She was the only chef In this piece-of-shit town that taught me anything. She looked out for her staff and cared about them unlike most business owners and chefs in Sacramento. SN&R should steer clear from writing slimy gossip just to gain a gullible following.

Joelle Dennis

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Correction

Re “Brewmeister’s big move” by John Flynn (SN&R Off Menu, November 16):

Erik Schmid was misspelled as Eric. Also, he leases his building at 802 Reading Street and doesn’t own it. SN&R regrets the errors.