Letters to the Editor 10-20-1998
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Blind Man - Sports Coverage - Reese Was Wrong
Blind Man
Editor, Times-Union:Congratulations to Damien and Ginger Carboneau on their purchase of "The Blind Man." I am certain they will provide the quality service the public is accustomed to. Yes, I will be remaining "on board" during the transition period, to assist and answer questions. More important, I believe the Kosciusko Area will continue doing business with the new owners. Most importantly, I wish to thank all my customers from over the years for their business and support.
Dennis G. Lundgren, Warsaw
Sports Coverage
Editor, Times-Union:There are two things about which I would like to comment regarding the Times-Union sports coverage.
The first is the article concerning the volleyball team's loss to Elkhart Central Thursday in the first round of the sectional. I no longer have children in the Kosciusko County school system, and to be very honest, I rarely take the time to read an entire article regarding any of the high school sports teams. But I did read the article by Jeff Holsinger with the title "With No Big Gun, Warsaw Exits Early" in bold print, and my heart went out to the other team members. Perhaps Miss Mason is a tremendous volleyball player, but there are other players on the team who no doubt do their best in every game. To not even acknowledge them is pathetic. I sincerely feel that they deserve an apology from Mr. Holsinger.
The other thing I can not understand is why your sports section does not give complete coverage of the NASCAR races. With auto racing being one of the biggest sporting events in the country, I am sure I am not the only person who would like to be able to pick up the paper the day after the races and find a listing of the final results, so that we know where all our favorite drivers finished. Unless I missed something, the only thing in the Times-Union after the Taladega race was one small article about Dale Jarrett winning and receiving the "No Bull Million" bonus. I am sure that if other papers can have access to this information the following morning, yours should be able to find it by the time your deadline comes for the following evening's edition.
On a more positive note, keep up the good work with your down-to-earth honesty in your "News Views" column. If you tread on a few toes, so be it. We need more articles like yours to encourage the public to become aware of the sad state of affairs in this country and set them on a path towards honesty and integrity.
Mary K. Omstead, Claypool
Note: Local sports stories do not contain the names of all the players on the team. Generally, standout players are noted. NASCAR race lineups appear either Friday or Saturday in the "Scoreboard" section of the paper. NASCAR race results appear every Monday in the "Scoreboard" section. Depending on space, a NASCAR story also appears on Monday. In addition, an entire page of NASCAR informatiion appears on the front page of the Home and Auto section every Saturday. It includes previews of weekend races, up-to-date standings and driver profiles.
Gary Gerard, Managing Editor
Reese Was Wrong
Editor, Times-Union:Charlie Reese, you have it all wrong in yesterday's editorial where you assert that we are seeing the beginning of another great depression and financial chaos like the one that began in October 1929. If you subtract all of the government purchases and employment payroll and national debt that we have today from our per Capita figures calculated on the same value of a dollar's buying power, you will realize that we are still in that "great depression" from which Franklin Delano Roosevelt rescued us with his double baited scheme: legalized alcoholic beverages and "a chicken in every pot."
We get the beer and Sunday dinner chicken but the beer predictably brought ever-stronger drinks and drugs and traffic deaths and foreseeable abuses and the once delectable chicken dinner degenerated into the rheumatically inflamed drumsticks of the aged non-productive, white leg horn laying hens that we are offered as a substitute for beef and pork today.
Since the depression of 1929, we have profligated recklessly for 80 years and now must face the 5 trillion dollar debt's consequences. First, we must recognize that "we've been had" and have not only run up a big national debt but leave dissipated most of this continents wealth of natural resources. Along with that, we've been saddled with a great mass of laws and appraisers and an innumerable mass of regulatory fees and people who are not on the roster of government employees but who derive their livelihood from it.
Furthermore, our misleaders have also led the rest of the world into the enticing trap of spendthrifting their economies to risk attractive benefits for themselves while following the false goal of "let the next generation pay later" with inflation-cheapened money! What a legacy for FDR's foresight or, if he did realize what he was doing, lack of character.
Additionally, we have an invasion of unbelieved form of socialism that condemns us to a dictatorship or to chaos.
No, today we do not have prosperous economy. We have a lot of activity and effort but no real prosperity.
Few men (or women) can alone support a family. Few people dare to have the courage to oppose the swift grasping claws of an ever-bigger and ever more demanding government. Fewer people even have the time or energy to read and evaluate all sides of the twisted so-called news that we are flooded with by an attention grabbing and often confusing mass of words.
No, Charlie Reese, you didn't paint your picture accurately and vividly enough. I'm 90 years old and saw this awful mess and I objected at every opportunity but the sellers of socialism and sociomaniacs' eventual prisons seem to have prevailed.
Can a real leader turn things around or will we have to go through diversive chaos first? Keep your guns handy and powder dry IF--?
R. Bradt, Warsaw
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- Blind Man - Sports Coverage - Reese Was Wrong
Blind Man
Editor, Times-Union:Congratulations to Damien and Ginger Carboneau on their purchase of "The Blind Man." I am certain they will provide the quality service the public is accustomed to. Yes, I will be remaining "on board" during the transition period, to assist and answer questions. More important, I believe the Kosciusko Area will continue doing business with the new owners. Most importantly, I wish to thank all my customers from over the years for their business and support.
Dennis G. Lundgren, Warsaw
Sports Coverage
Editor, Times-Union:There are two things about which I would like to comment regarding the Times-Union sports coverage.
The first is the article concerning the volleyball team's loss to Elkhart Central Thursday in the first round of the sectional. I no longer have children in the Kosciusko County school system, and to be very honest, I rarely take the time to read an entire article regarding any of the high school sports teams. But I did read the article by Jeff Holsinger with the title "With No Big Gun, Warsaw Exits Early" in bold print, and my heart went out to the other team members. Perhaps Miss Mason is a tremendous volleyball player, but there are other players on the team who no doubt do their best in every game. To not even acknowledge them is pathetic. I sincerely feel that they deserve an apology from Mr. Holsinger.
The other thing I can not understand is why your sports section does not give complete coverage of the NASCAR races. With auto racing being one of the biggest sporting events in the country, I am sure I am not the only person who would like to be able to pick up the paper the day after the races and find a listing of the final results, so that we know where all our favorite drivers finished. Unless I missed something, the only thing in the Times-Union after the Taladega race was one small article about Dale Jarrett winning and receiving the "No Bull Million" bonus. I am sure that if other papers can have access to this information the following morning, yours should be able to find it by the time your deadline comes for the following evening's edition.
On a more positive note, keep up the good work with your down-to-earth honesty in your "News Views" column. If you tread on a few toes, so be it. We need more articles like yours to encourage the public to become aware of the sad state of affairs in this country and set them on a path towards honesty and integrity.
Mary K. Omstead, Claypool
Note: Local sports stories do not contain the names of all the players on the team. Generally, standout players are noted. NASCAR race lineups appear either Friday or Saturday in the "Scoreboard" section of the paper. NASCAR race results appear every Monday in the "Scoreboard" section. Depending on space, a NASCAR story also appears on Monday. In addition, an entire page of NASCAR informatiion appears on the front page of the Home and Auto section every Saturday. It includes previews of weekend races, up-to-date standings and driver profiles.
Gary Gerard, Managing Editor
Reese Was Wrong
Editor, Times-Union:Charlie Reese, you have it all wrong in yesterday's editorial where you assert that we are seeing the beginning of another great depression and financial chaos like the one that began in October 1929. If you subtract all of the government purchases and employment payroll and national debt that we have today from our per Capita figures calculated on the same value of a dollar's buying power, you will realize that we are still in that "great depression" from which Franklin Delano Roosevelt rescued us with his double baited scheme: legalized alcoholic beverages and "a chicken in every pot."
We get the beer and Sunday dinner chicken but the beer predictably brought ever-stronger drinks and drugs and traffic deaths and foreseeable abuses and the once delectable chicken dinner degenerated into the rheumatically inflamed drumsticks of the aged non-productive, white leg horn laying hens that we are offered as a substitute for beef and pork today.
Since the depression of 1929, we have profligated recklessly for 80 years and now must face the 5 trillion dollar debt's consequences. First, we must recognize that "we've been had" and have not only run up a big national debt but leave dissipated most of this continents wealth of natural resources. Along with that, we've been saddled with a great mass of laws and appraisers and an innumerable mass of regulatory fees and people who are not on the roster of government employees but who derive their livelihood from it.
Furthermore, our misleaders have also led the rest of the world into the enticing trap of spendthrifting their economies to risk attractive benefits for themselves while following the false goal of "let the next generation pay later" with inflation-cheapened money! What a legacy for FDR's foresight or, if he did realize what he was doing, lack of character.
Additionally, we have an invasion of unbelieved form of socialism that condemns us to a dictatorship or to chaos.
No, today we do not have prosperous economy. We have a lot of activity and effort but no real prosperity.
Few men (or women) can alone support a family. Few people dare to have the courage to oppose the swift grasping claws of an ever-bigger and ever more demanding government. Fewer people even have the time or energy to read and evaluate all sides of the twisted so-called news that we are flooded with by an attention grabbing and often confusing mass of words.
No, Charlie Reese, you didn't paint your picture accurately and vividly enough. I'm 90 years old and saw this awful mess and I objected at every opportunity but the sellers of socialism and sociomaniacs' eventual prisons seem to have prevailed.
Can a real leader turn things around or will we have to go through diversive chaos first? Keep your guns handy and powder dry IF--?
R. Bradt, Warsaw
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