Speak Out A 03/27/03

Tradition at risk

CHEROKEE PARK is changing its name. Snake Hill will be less snaky. What has happened to the tradition this community values? This must cease lest the next thing on the list be the razing of the Southeast Missourian building.

Avoiding drudgery

I THINK the $7,500 spent for the city employee Christmas party was money well spent. Tax money should be spent in ways so as to make people happy instead of on things that result in so much drudgery: fire and police protection, street and sewer improvements and repair and the like.