Letters to the Editor 3-31-16

Equal pay for equal work
Editor:
Do readers realize that working women are still paid less than their male co-workers? On average, this pay gap means Sonoma County women earn 21 cents on the dollar less than men for equivalent work. Equal Pay Day is intended to raise awareness about the gender pay gap in our community. This year, we hope you will support our Equal Pay Day activities in Windsor on Tuesday, April 12. AAUW (American Association of University Women) will be selling “unequal cookies” at Starbucks on the Green on Equal Pay Day. You can help by coming with your male friends and family to buy our cookies, only $1 per cookie. While equally delicious, the cookies for women will be round and whole, but the cookies for men will have a chunk missing roughly equivalent to the amount missing from women’s paychecks. Please come to Starbucks on the Green on Tuesday, April 12 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to support our Equal Pay Day cookie sale. It’s a friendly symbolic reminder of the need to stop taking a bit out of women’s paychecks!
Terry Bloom
Healdsburg AAUW
Maintain pot policy
Editor:
There are plenty of other places to obtain medical marijuana in Sonoma County outside of Windsor; the entitled pretentiousness of the pot lobby is astounding. I commend the Windsor Town Council for their current position on this issue and I urge them to maintain such policy in the future.
Brent Gudzus
Windsor