Letters to the Editor 08-07-2006
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Hospital Trail Safety - Exposed!
Hospital Trail Safety
Editor, Times-Union:My husband and I took a walk tonight to the hospital trail behind KCH. We live on Harrison Street. I don't understand why they can't make a safety path that leads to the trail. There is all that open space that would be perfect for a walking path. They have put a path halfway but I don't understand why they don't finish it. I see so many people cut through the grass to get to the trail and it would make so much sense to just finish this path.
I see so many people walking on Harrison Street. They are walking, running, biking, walking with children and pets. I would like to see a safety path on this road. The cars just fly down this road and the speed limit is only 30 miles per hour. I have children and I fear that when they are riding their bike, someone is not going to see them and one may end up getting hit. I have already lost my precious Yorkie that was hit and killed by a speeding driver right in front of my home. What can be done to assure the safety of pedestrians? I know they are walking to the hospital trail and that is great! But they need some sort of safety path to perfect them.
Melissa Ambrose, via e-mail
Warsaw
Exposed!
Editor, Times-Union:Dear MIU (middle initial unknown):
It is about time someone exposed you publicly: Your surreptitious liberalism has been outed. We should have known those several years ago that when you cut your hair it was just a smokescreen concession to conservatism.
Clearly you have failed to manage the editorial pages. The Times-Union is nothing like the "fair and balanced" offerings of the Fox News Network. Never mind that Rupert Murdoch and the Fox news crew seem to have snatched pages from the Joseph Goebbels playbook on propaganda (or was it Karl Rove's?). Fair and balanced means observing people like Bill O'Reilly bully, intimidate, and continually interrupt his guests.
I do concede that you publish Ann Coulter. (Do newspapers have libel insurance like we lawyers have malpractice insurance?) What we need is more of Ann Coulter on both sides of the editorial pages. Of course, we do not want you to compromise any precious space for public theological bickering and insults. I hesitated to write this letter and interfere with those ongoing endeavors. I will try to keep it brief. Coulter has raised the public debate on issues by, for instance, accusing the 9/11 widows of narcissistic attention grabbing, theorizing that Bill Clinton has latent homosexual tendencies, and that Al Gore is gay. Clearly these venomous harpoons raise the public debate.
From what I observe the editorial and op-ed pages are, on a 2-to-1 basis, conservative to progressive journalists. If you truly intend to emulate the fair-and-balanced approach, you need to eliminate anything but token space for other points of view. Only then can we be safe and secure from the evils of liberalism. (Never mind that the founding fathers intended to and created a liberal democracy. But that seems to be becoming a thing of the past).
Finally, MIU, you need to be reminded of the historic maxim (once well stated by Mark Twain) that the king can do no wrong.
David C. Kolbe, via e-mail
Warsaw
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- Hospital Trail Safety - Exposed!
Hospital Trail Safety
Editor, Times-Union:My husband and I took a walk tonight to the hospital trail behind KCH. We live on Harrison Street. I don't understand why they can't make a safety path that leads to the trail. There is all that open space that would be perfect for a walking path. They have put a path halfway but I don't understand why they don't finish it. I see so many people cut through the grass to get to the trail and it would make so much sense to just finish this path.
I see so many people walking on Harrison Street. They are walking, running, biking, walking with children and pets. I would like to see a safety path on this road. The cars just fly down this road and the speed limit is only 30 miles per hour. I have children and I fear that when they are riding their bike, someone is not going to see them and one may end up getting hit. I have already lost my precious Yorkie that was hit and killed by a speeding driver right in front of my home. What can be done to assure the safety of pedestrians? I know they are walking to the hospital trail and that is great! But they need some sort of safety path to perfect them.
Melissa Ambrose, via e-mail
Warsaw
Exposed!
Editor, Times-Union:Dear MIU (middle initial unknown):
It is about time someone exposed you publicly: Your surreptitious liberalism has been outed. We should have known those several years ago that when you cut your hair it was just a smokescreen concession to conservatism.
Clearly you have failed to manage the editorial pages. The Times-Union is nothing like the "fair and balanced" offerings of the Fox News Network. Never mind that Rupert Murdoch and the Fox news crew seem to have snatched pages from the Joseph Goebbels playbook on propaganda (or was it Karl Rove's?). Fair and balanced means observing people like Bill O'Reilly bully, intimidate, and continually interrupt his guests.
I do concede that you publish Ann Coulter. (Do newspapers have libel insurance like we lawyers have malpractice insurance?) What we need is more of Ann Coulter on both sides of the editorial pages. Of course, we do not want you to compromise any precious space for public theological bickering and insults. I hesitated to write this letter and interfere with those ongoing endeavors. I will try to keep it brief. Coulter has raised the public debate on issues by, for instance, accusing the 9/11 widows of narcissistic attention grabbing, theorizing that Bill Clinton has latent homosexual tendencies, and that Al Gore is gay. Clearly these venomous harpoons raise the public debate.
From what I observe the editorial and op-ed pages are, on a 2-to-1 basis, conservative to progressive journalists. If you truly intend to emulate the fair-and-balanced approach, you need to eliminate anything but token space for other points of view. Only then can we be safe and secure from the evils of liberalism. (Never mind that the founding fathers intended to and created a liberal democracy. But that seems to be becoming a thing of the past).
Finally, MIU, you need to be reminded of the historic maxim (once well stated by Mark Twain) that the king can do no wrong.
David C. Kolbe, via e-mail
Warsaw
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