Local news now as flat as a tortilla

Regarding the Global Capital article “Investment money pours in from Mexico,” May 5:

There was a time when one could pick up a copy of The Times and read about the latest exciting development in advanced aircraft research and design or production. Graduates of the top technical schools in the nation would head to Los Angeles to secure interesting jobs, the best-paying in the field.

Now, however, we readers need to be satisfied with accounts of firms from Mexico building “major” tortilla factories in the Los Angeles area hiring 350 workers (wow!) probably earning, on average, slightly more than minimum wage.

I wonder how the editors manage to keep their financial news reporters enthused about local business developments when the best that can be offered for their attention is tortilla factories.

DANIEL ELIASON

Santa Barbara