Speak Out 5/20/07

Teaching gig

AN 11 percent raise for new, inexperienced teachers to be trained in Cape Girardeau schools so they can go to Jackson after their fifth year and continue to get paid decent wages instead of receiving $6,000 less in Cape as an experienced teacher. Sounds like a good gig. Where do I sign up?

Graduation schedule

CENTRAL HIGH School and Notre Dame Regional High School are holding graduation the same day and time. Why? There are people in this small community who have close friends and family members graduating from both schools. Next year my mother-in-law will have three grandsons graduating from three different high schools. I hope she doesn't have choose which grandchild's graduation to attend.

Safe issues

WALTER WILLIAMS seems sensible because he is a libertarian ideologue who limits himself to discussion of freedom-related issues that are popular with the American people. He doesn't write about illegal drug use and abortion because he knows his answer would horrify large numbers of his readership.

Equal time

I DON'T get it. If the media is controlled by liberals, as the conservatives claim, why are the conservatives leading the clamor of opposition to the revival of the Fairness Doctrine? Using their own reasoning, if the media is dominated by liberals, the conservatives would be granted equal time.

Getting to work

"AMERICAN DRIVERS have yet to reach the point of cutting back." What a deceiving statement, which makes it sound like cutting back is much of a choice. With the major lack of public transportation in this country, workers have little choice in the matter because no matter how high the price, they must be able to get to work. We will again start seeing prices on everything, especially food, begin soaring, because pretty much everything we need has to be transported. For an area such as SE Missouri, where people in the small outlying counties must work and do their doctoring in Jackson or Cape Girardeau, this is definitely a crisis.