Mundane stoplight story

As an avid reader of newspapers for more than 65 years, I have become increasingly appalled at the spiraling deterioration of newspaper content and quality. That applies to your paper as well as nearly all others. However, this past week when your staff used a sizable part of your front page and also the third page to write about a stoplight issue in Marble Hill, Mo., your newspaper hopefully reached the bottom. I hardly know where and how you could report on a more mundane and irrelevant matter.

I would respectfully suggest that you just as well recognize what your publication is, namely a means of gouging the taxpayers and consumers who are required to use legal publications and quit calling it a "newspaper."

KENNETH W. SHRUM, Marble Hill, Mo.