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GRAMNET needed

I'm calling in reference to GRAMNET and the cuts made. GRAMNET is needed very badly. As far as Oak Creek not contributing, I don't know what the deal is, but we need GRAMNET down here badly. I hope the commissioners understand this.

But candy's OK?

In response to Jeff Troeger's push to have a lawyer review the religious policy, one quote made me laugh out loud: "It is not our business to gather up the children in our town so they can essentially be marketed to. This is not our role. They are trying to sell their particular religious views, and we have to be very, very careful." Is it of no concern to Troeger that our kids are heavily marketed to every day with soda and candy in our schools? But I guess that's OK because those companies pay our schools to market to our kids, and that's fine. In summation, I guess it's OK for our kids to be fat and sold out to large corporations, as long as they're not reading Bibles.

Survey a waste

Here we go again, the city is wasting more of our money on a community survey. Why not just read the last one, and listen to what was most important to people at that time, and that is quality of life. Not development after development, not Triple Crown without letting people vote on it, and all the other gifts the City Council wants to give to the chamber association. Why include second-home owners? They don't live here, they do nothing for except spoil the valley with their trophy homes.

A dim view

This is an opinion about MacArthur's folly. Since he built that silly lake east of town, he's been trying to get the city to bail him out. I think the city should acquire the property, either by condemnation or by buying it from MacArthur, and filling it in so we can have some open space.

Bad ideas

I'm really concerned about the Educational Fund Board Capital Commission's plan to tear down Soda Creek Elementary School and build a new one in its place. I think that's absolutely idiotic and I want to know what other people think. The Capital Commission is spending my money where I don't want it to go and I don't need it to go. Tearing down Soda Creek and putting up another school in a really crowded neighborhood? What they need is a branch school somewhere else.

As if the School Board didn't have enough on its plate, its Bibles and buses. The Bible issue is just a backdoor attempt to teach creationism in the high school. And as for the buses being paid for by the half-cent sales tax, the voters were told the money would be used for technology, smaller classes sizes and pay for performance -- not buses.