Reader offers praise
Dear Editor: So often you are put under fire and not near enough are you and your fine staff praised. Well here are two well-deserved areas of praise.
Your many articles of health have a very high degree accuracy that falls in well with this health nut, mainly nut.
Your April 2 editorial about Alvin Laidley. Love him or dislike him, he was in a cultural sphere far above most of us in this neck of the woods.
And, indeed, we were privileged to have had the honor of rubbing shoulders with him intellectually.
Ed Rinkoff
Brownsville mayor praised
Dear Editor:
I have followed the story concerning gambling in Brownsville for the past few years and cannot recall an elected official bringing the matter before the people.
I find it astounding that no citizen has expressed concern about the esoteric actions of our illustrious elected and their total disregard of the electorate.
These elected are supposed to work with and represent the electorate not dictate and ignore.
Currently they are working assiduously in quiet conversation behind closed doors in order to bring this project to fruition. Sound familiar?
It is the same smug, arrogant attitude exhibited when Pittsburgh got slam-dunked with the stadium deal and Fayette County got shafted with its newest tourist attraction – the state prison. This is our elected at their deceitful best.
I commend the newly elected Mayor Norma Ryan for her statement; “I sign no non-disclosure statements.”
Citizens be attentive to what is evolving or get prepared to pucker up for another lovefest.
In conclusion, would you buy a used car from the Liggetts?
Roderick Schad
East Millsboro
Only dopes refuse to see
Dear Editor:
I have been a member of the community here in Fayette County for more than 20 years.
I have seen the same thing the rest of the community has seen and that is the ever-increasing presence of drugs on the streets and in our neighborhoods.
Until now legislators have told us that our kids are to blame and have allocated billions of dollars over the last 30 years in an all out attempt to terrify our citizens, as well as other nations, like Colombia, Jamaica, Canada and the Netherlands, who have made significant progress regarding their drug problem.
When Jamaican Sen. Trevor Monroe set up the National Commission of Ganja (chaired by the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies, Professor Barry Chevannes), he was hoping to attain information that would lead to rational drug policies.
In August of 2001, after a nine month cannabis study, the commissioners found medical evidence supporting the use of cannabis in decreasing the severity of nausea, insomnia, vomiting, chronic pain, glaucoma, appetite loss, muscle, spasticity from spinal chord injuries and multiple sclerosis, depression, seizures, cough, cold, bronchial asthma, motion sickness and migraine headaches.
When the U.S. government was presented with the NCG case study, U.S. officials responded with threats to enact economic sanctions that would harm the already impoverished country.
So here in Fayette County, our problems seem to just be getting worse. Even when the young people of our community get together, all we do is point our fingers and call names.
And to Ricki Garden, chairperson of the newly formed Fayette Area Decriminalization Effort, the only dopey people in this county are the ones who refuse to open their eyes.
Sign me up.
Robert Ewing
Uniontown