Dear Mr. Ivens, I find Mr. Scarfe’s cartoon highly offensive and in fact, disgusting and tasteless. It’s not funny or accurate. Where are his mean spirited cartoons on 60,000 dead Syrians, 3 million dead in Congo, Sudan, Somalia or 70,000 dead in Mexico? Or maybe Arabs blowing up old grandmas playing cards with bombs before […]
Peter’s Views on Youth Fashion Today
What kind of society are we moving to where so many of young people copy the baggy “Butt crack” revealing slacks and full body tattoos dress of prisoners rather than the clothes of businessmen, lawyers Cary Grant, Duke Ellington, Fred Astaire or President Obama.
Settlements Are The Boogeyman
Since there are 1.5 million Arabs living in Israel, quite protected, being educated, having rights, worshipping as they please, not being attacked and not being terrorists, why can’t there be hundreds of thousands of Jews living in West Bank when it’s a country, some who trace their roots for decades, some centuries, and all with […]
Comments – Senate Committee’s Ideas on Medical Expenses
Dear Ron, There is merit to many of the Senate Committee’s ideas. Max’s worked very hard to find common ground to say the least. He has the patience of Job and very good people skills. I hope some worked out deal is passed to address the most difficult issues, not just a “cram down” which […]
Peter Dwares on Healthcare
The government is asking the customer i.e. the public to buy a pair of shoes without telling the size, the color about how the customer will pay. People over 65 are leery. People nearing 65 are leery. 15 million illegal immigrants will still not get services unless emergency. I’d respectfully suggest incrementalizing and simplifying. 1,000 […]
2004 – Letter to Senator Baucus
Senator Max Baucus I’m flattered you ask my opinion. Here it is. Going into Iraq was gray not black and white but we could justify it morally using most recently Milosevic as a precedent. The issue is whether exporting democracy to this area in hopes of providing an alternative to the darkness of solely theocratic […]
1969 – Total Innocence is Absent on Both Sides
Total Innocence is Absent on Both Sides Recently I wrote a letter to this newspaper stating that Communist nations are not “per se” aggressive; I still adhere to this contention. Unquestionably some Communist governments are aggressive, just as some fascist and some constitutional monarchical governments were. The capture of the Pueblo by the North Korean […]
Peter Dwares ’69: Carving Paths for Kids By Betty Lynne Leary
Forty years after the Summer of Love rocked the San Francisco area with its celebrations of the hippie counterculture, Peter Dwares ’69 finds himself as much in love with this city as when he arrived shortly after the famed, free love gathering. For this attorney-turned-real estate developer, the Bay Area still offers the perfect environment […]
CAPITOLA JIVES TO FREE JAZZ GIG
CAPITOLA – For jazz singer Jacqui Naylor, Sunday night at the Village was like a battle of the bands. Naylor and her quartet kicked off a free two-night concert series presented by Peter Dwares, a San Francisco businessman and part-time Capitola resident, from a balcony in Dwares’ condo overlooking the Esplanade. Across the street, businesses […]
RESIDENT HOPES JAZZ SHOW CALMS CAPITOLA VILLAGE
The condo Peter Dwares built for himself overlooking the Esplanade sits empty because he says the loud music from nearby bars is out of hand. Sunday, he will bring his vision of what the village should sound like on weekends. Two free jazz performances are being presented by the San Francisco businessman and part-time Capitola […]