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July 20
I was reading today’s newspaper about the candidates for Sheriff of Cochise County. On Page A9 it’s despicable that you put Bill Cloud talking about Larry Dever’s experience as sheriff, but he has one year of experience 12 times. I hope that no voter that has any common sense at all reads that and takes it for what you are trying to say. Because if you read what Sheriff Dever has done, he has done an outstanding job, cumulatively and progressively for 12 years. He has extended what he has done over 12 years, not repeated 12 years. That’s something that Bill Cloud said and that is a gouge he is using to try to get people away from voting for Sheriff Dever. I think it’s despicable that the Herald has picked that particular excerpt to print on A9. I’m a subscriber but if that kind of hypocrisy keeps up I may cancel my subscription.
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Congrats to the brilliant headline writers for July 19: “ Water wasn’t out; it was being fixed” (If it ain’t broke, fix it anyway, says the U.S. Army.) In his letter, “Jack” Doherty states two men worked all night so we could have water in the morning, and that there has never been a water outage in 15 years because a holding tank provides 360 gallons of water per home at all times. So we all ask, “Where was my 360-gallon allotment all night?” Our water was absolutely positively off. Doherty says our only night lighting is on the flag. Ten lights shine at one intersection. There’s one at every lot, and all along Doherty Lane/Drive/Circle even on lots with no homes yet. The city mandates lidded night lights and ours aren’t lidded. We have checked the facts. Who else did, or needs to? Thank God and the Herald for OYM!
The July 20 Commentary by Dave Cartun, “Lawyers and our civil legal system,” was very much on target. These statements stand out: 1. “Lawyers promote a litigious attitude through advertising and drive up the cost of goods and services. They file nuisance suits purely for income knowing that deep pockets may not want to spend the time and costs to acquire justice.”; 2. “Ridiculous settlements arising out of everyday, normal risks have created two factors that threaten our health care: doctors must give unneeded, costly tests just to cover themselves and are leaving their specialty or business entirely due to malpractice insurance costs.”; 3. In Europe and Japan, suing doctors is almost unheard of and malpractice insurance cost is negligible.”; 4. Tort reform is the most immediate need.” I was surprised to learn that the United States has 80 percent of the world’s lawyers for only 6 percent of the world’s population.
For years, I have (upon occasion) commented about how you folks put your babies out on the curb to catch the bus to go to school. In December and January, catching the bus puts them out there while darkness is the reality (besides being cold). One of the explanations has been because of capacity at the school and needs for double shifts. You need a second high school; you need to stop giving tax dollars away to charter schools (private property); you need to make more available to all children rather than have them all competing for single slots within the offerings of a single school; you need to have a second school to lessen fuel-demand and combat obesity; you need to care rather than push your kids out the door well before sunrise! It sure would be nice if the fort could have a high school for “active-duty” dependents and civil-service dependents.
Doctors’ signatures are convoluted and illegible so nobody can copy their signature exactly and get by with it. We can rejoice now that doctors no longer have to write prescriptions or orders; they can use computers to do it all so it’s readable, plus a copy is stored in the hard drive. This makes our health care a little better.
July 21
The new law allowing photographic speed traps around the state which are simply money-raisers is disgusting. If I can get Mexican plates I won’t ever have to worry about a ticket. How is that equality under the law? Also, I believe we ought to pass a law that states that the governor or anyone else riding in a limo, that the person in the back seat has to pay the fine or it goes on their record. I’m sure the governor won’t mind her state police driving her around at high speeds, after all it’s only a couple of hundred bucks out of her pocket.
I’m compelled to respond to an article in today’s paper about the Fry Boulevard concept and making the West End prettier. I would strongly suggest that our people who are supposedly proud of our town drive down Carmichael and take a look at some of the junk that’s down there and nothing is being done about it. On the corner of Valerie Lane and Carmichael, on both corners there is an absolute disgrace. I and others have called many times and nothing has been done about it. You can start with Fry Boulevard, that might be a good idea, but there are houses that should be ripped down, there are mobile homes that are an utter disgrace. A man who lives down there has an absolute junkyard. Now he’s dragging in more old tires. Come down Carmichael if you want to see a mess.
Randle Patrick McMurphy wrote on Aug 5, 2008 5:40 PM: