Letters

It's an important topic. I couldn't understand, however, why the name of the city in which the child lived was divulged. While that information apparently is in the public domain, it requires searching out.

The column, I believe, didn't require it to enhance the story. Rather, the column seemed to be doing what it criticized the social sites of doing -- publishing information about minors that predators might find useful.

Joyce Leanse

Santa Monica

Gov.'s stance on tax breaks

So Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says it drove him "absolutely insane" to learn that Tesla Motors planned to take its environmentally friendly technology to another state.

So he gave them tax breaks to choose California over New Mexico. ("Electric car maker to stay in state," July 1.)

It is really too bad the governor doesn't go "absolutely insane" that New Mexico gives tax breaks to the film industry and California doesn't.

Keeping production of a $60,000 car in California is more important to Schwarzenegger than providing jobs for those of us in the film business who choose to stay in California instead of moving to states like New Mexico.

Neil Jacobs

Woodland Hills

Parallel from story on Mozilo

As I read the story "" (July 1), I was reminded of a comment a colleague made to me about his previous employer, a bank that crashed and burned in the 1980s after buying imprudent and poorly documented loans.

The remnants of the bank were ultimately acquired by BankAmerica, a predecessor company to the current Bank of America, which bought Angelo Mozilo's Countrywide Financial.

My colleague's observation about the bank now also applies to Countrywide: "They executed the wrong strategy -- beautifully."

Paul Dodwell

Sierra Madre

Wringing out the last drop

Occidental Petroleum is building a $1.1-billion plant to produce carbon dioxide to be pumped into the Permian Basin. ("Occidental deal to lift oil output," July 1.)

The goal is to produce an additional 50,000 barrels of crude everyday. Whoopee! Who is kidding whom?