We need woman president
I would like to see a woman president for once. Women have been the backbone of the homes for centuries. Cutting wood, hauling water to wash clothes and other chores to keep the home going. Tending to children and husbands. Today we have school teachers, nurses, doctors, engineers, chemists, air and river pilots, excursion boat pilots, bus and cab drivers – male and female in all kinds of work. Why not a woman president?
It would be nice some day to read in history books that we had a woman president. Never did we have a husband and wife to sit in the president’s chair. I think it’s time now we change. Hillary Clinton will be coming in with the tide and Barack Obama right behind her.
I think she would be good for our country; she’s intelligent, educated and a lady and can get our country back on our feet where we once were.
Bring our troops home, bring our workers and factories back, give our men work here. If President Bush had two boys instead of two girls, I don’t think he would not have been too eager to get us in this messed up war.
There are so many broken-hearted mothers and fathers because their sons and daughters gave their lives for our freedom. What freedom? Look what one woman alone has done: (atheist) Madelyn Murray O’Hair.
If she can do that, then think what good Hillary can do for us.
Ann Secondini
Masontown
Fayette commissioners graded
Well, it’s time to discuss the county commissioner situation again. Overall, I think it is very good, with the exception of the lady commissioner. I don’t understand why the Republican Party higher-ups don’t call for her to resignation and replace her with someone who will work for the other two commissioners.
It’s not a healthy situation to have someone with such a negative attitude. Rarely does she ever agree with the other two commissioners. We need to have positive thinking on all sides of the agenda.
I regard Mr. Vince Vicites as one of the most dedicated men in public office in the last 20 years. He has done much for this county and will continue throughout his next term in office. Vince works well with other public officials, on the local, state, and federal levels. His experience in all these matters makes him very much needed for this county to move forward and take us out of the “poorest county in the state” label that has hung around our neck for a long, long time.
As for Vince Zapatosky, I hope you break one of your campaign promises; you said you only wanted to run for two terms and then depart the office. Vince, we need you for at least four or five terms, so you and Vince V. can work together getting this county on track and moving forward.
Bob Opst
Democratic committee
Dunbar
Impose local beer tax
I think Bill Jackson needs to be replaced as president of the Fayette County Fair for wanting to sell beer there. Did you lose your mind, or do you even have one? We don’t need anymore DUI drivers out there.
People that drink beer smell like someone’s garbage that was out in the sun for two weeks. I think everybody should boycott the fair if you have beer there. Come on churches, let’s get with it. What we do need is a 7 percent sales tax on every glass of beer sold and a 10 percent sales tax on each case of beer that is sold. It works in Pittsburgh, it will work here.
Then you would have money to fix up the fairground and others places, too. This is why downtown Uniontown and the Uniontown Mall smells so bad when they put on their festival. Clean up your city, Mr. Ed Fike. Stop the beer sales on our streets. If there is no beer to sell, then the air will stay clean.
Bill Hixon
Hopwood
McGinty should change tune
Secretary Kathleen McGinty’s letter defending the Department of Environmental Protection’s meetings distorts the facts in the same way Big Brother does in “1984.”
McGinty says, “Before adopting this format, DEP heard from citizens that public meetings were too easily dominated by activists who sought to monopolize the conversation.” What errant nonsense.
I suggest the citizens she refers to were her staff, not the citizens who are impacted by mining. She and her staff are dedicated to enabling the mining industry. DEP meetings take place at all only because they are required by regulation.
Citizens about to be impacted by mining almost never know what to expect or what they need to do to protect themselves until they realize that mining is about to come their way.
When they come to a meeting, they need to hear more than they hear from the mining company or from DEP. They need to hear from the people secretary McGinty refers to as “activists.”
These are people who know what goes on. These are people who volunteer their time because they are appalled by the damage that results from mining. These are the people “citizens” need to hear from.
It is also true that we all need to hear from these citizens. When they come to a meeting and see inaccurate, sometimes out-of-date maps; when they see perennial streams misnamed or identified as intermittent – and in many other cases – we need to hear from them. If they, like those of us who proudly wear the label “activist,” can only speak to a recorder in a closed room, their voices are stifled.
I suggest that secretary McGinty change her tune.
Philip Y. Coleman
West Brownsville