OpinionSeptember 30, 1999
SPEAKOUT
I HAVE a neighbor that started a fire out on County Road 444. She was a grown woman and knew better than to burn. I was wondering if someone could publish this. You can lose everything you own to a fire. I WAS just wondering when we started allowing bus drivers' mothers to go on trips with them when none of the children's parents are allowed to ride the bus...
Dangerous to start a fire right now
I HAVE a neighbor that started a fire out on County Road 444. She was a grown woman and knew better than to burn. I was wondering if someone could publish this. You can lose everything you own to a fire.
Bus driver's mother rides along
I WAS just wondering when we started allowing bus drivers' mothers to go on trips with them when none of the children's parents are allowed to ride the bus.
Board new about video in class
I WANTED to vomit -- yes, vomit -- when I read Dr. Anderson's quote on the front page of the Missourian. He said there was no question that for a few minutes the video was shown in a class, and the board took "swift" action. What a joke. The board knew about this in April and refused to get to the bottom of it. Dr. Anderson, don't go down with this ship by supporting these board members. I can promise you, the ones up for re-election will not make it. Jackson voters will not forget this.
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Open up traffic in Scott City
I'D LIKE to say that Scott City is a town that sure can stop traffic. They stop traffic on the interstate. They stop traffic all the way back past the bank with those nice new stoplights they have. And then I heard someone say that when you come in the back way, they stop you there. There are four-way stop signs at all the intersections. Hasn't Scott City heard of a through street or a thoroughfare? We need more than one street through town, and that means we need one street in the back that doesn't have any stop signs.
Phone company adds nit-picking charge
I JUST wanted to let everyone know that they should be watching their Southwestern Bell telephone bills. My friend lives up north, toward St. Louis, and she has something called a number portability service charge. It's only 33 cents, but it's 33 cents every month. That's almost $4 a year. I called Southwestern Bell to ask them what that it was. They said that it ensures that when there is local competition you can take your phone number with you and keep the same phone number. I told them, if I change to a different phone company, I don't want that phone number, I want a new one. They said they were going to charge that amount no matter what. You can't decline it, so I don't know why they call it a service charge. They should call it a tax. Come on, Southwestern Bell, we all loved you because you gave us the services we wanted and charged just for those. You didn't nitpick and nickel-and-dime us to death with all these little service charges. You're losing my faith in you. Straighten up, or you're going to be just like AT&T.
High-speed chase in town questioned
I WAS driving down the street and almost got caught up in a high-speed chase involving a car and many police cars. With as many Americans as are killed on the highways each year, just innocent people driving down the street, you've got to wonder why police departments get wound up in high-speed chases in a town. It's a scary thought whenever you nearly get wiped out. Taxpayers are paying for damages on two police cars. You wonder where it's all going to end. I realize the police need to catch these people, but that's the reason they have license plates on the vehicles and radios.
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