OpinionAugust 21, 1998
SPEAKOUT
LOMBARDO DRIVE is so dusty you can hardly see the car in front of you. There's going to be an accident if something isn't done to clean this mess up. We cut through there to go to church. I couldn't believe all the dust. THIS IS for the lady who found my bag in the ladies' bathroom at Penney's. I wish to tell her thank you for turning it in to the lost and found. I appreciate her honesty and kindness...
Lombardo dust is a hazard
LOMBARDO DRIVE is so dusty you can hardly see the car in front of you. There's going to be an accident if something isn't done to clean this mess up. We cut through there to go to church. I couldn't believe all the dust.
Lost bag returned to owner
THIS IS for the lady who found my bag in the ladies' bathroom at Penney's. I wish to tell her thank you for turning it in to the lost and found. I appreciate her honesty and kindness.
Thanks for saving a life
I WOULD like to thank a young man who was painting gates near Birch Creek the other day. I was walking the creek and fishing when I got choked on a cupcake. This young man saved my life. I just wanted to tell him a big thank you.
Would like to drive on paved roads
GAIL MEYER of Cape Girardeau recently took future Pulitzer prize-winning columnist Laura Johnston to task. She thought Johnston was way off base for being critical of how long it is taking to repair streets and roads. Meyer also wrote, "I appreciate paved roads." In fairness to Johnston, I believe she does too, but before her demise, she would like the opportunity to drive on them.
A sue-happy generation
MY COMMENT is in regard to the cheerleading issue in the Kelso School District. I followed this story closely at the time. I felt the girls were treated very unfairly. I think it was wrong. But for the parents to sue when the girls are no longer in the school and can no longer be cheerleaders in that school is just another case of this sue-happy generation that we have become. Everybody wants to sue everybody else, and everybody wants something from somebody else. The girls were treated unfairly. I completely agree with that, but I think it's way beyond what's called for to sue the school after the fact.
Loose with the facts
I'M NOT sure where Christine Stephens gets her facts. The United Nations may be saying that the population growth may decline, but the population will not. The experts are saying we will have more than 9 billion people on this planet by the year 2050. She seems to be very loose with the facts. I don't know if she just can't interpret them right, or just doesn't care what the facts are.
One voter who opposes tax plan
I AGREE with the caller who said it's time for the university to stop expecting the city taxpayers to pay for what it wants. I think it's time we looked out for the taxpayers of Cape Girardeau. I will not vote for any tax for that university to get anything it wants.
Bend on North Main needs to change
THIS CONCERNS again the right-angle turn on North Main Street. I expect that if the people with the power to correct this traffic hazard had to dodge semis and sand-hauling trucks at this spot every day, it would be corrected. This was promised five years ago.
Half-truth is same as a lie
ONE THING that Bill Clinton's mama apparently didn't teach him is that half a truth is the same thing as a lie.
Make meth penalties stiffer
I'M CALLING in regards to an article "A closer look at meth" about the eight-day series that you are planning on "Life or meth." There are a few things I need to say. The police ask for citizens' help through Crimestoppers or people who are just sick and tired of drugs taking over this town. You give them information, and they treat you like the criminal. They ask you, well, how do you know this? I know somebody who was arrested for meth. They did a whole 120 days. They will be out as of Sept. 4. What kind of example is that setting? You get busted for making methamphetamine or taking meth, and you get a lousy four months of supposed treatment. It makes no sense. I think they need to crack down and make the penalties a whole lot stiffer. Our kids are going to die because of this stuff.
Back to basics for new school
IN ORDER to call attention to it and to emphasize that they're going to teach the basics, I think the new school should be named The Old School.
Name school for Margaret Reed
I WOULD like to see the new grade school be named the Margaret Reed School. Ms. Reed was a dedicated elementary teacher for many, many years in the Cape Girardeau School District. She never lost interest in her pupils and their families. I hope the committee working with the school board will consider this suggestion.
The I-don't-care attitude
I WANT to comment about the attitude that's taken hold in our country: "I don't care what any public official does or how illegal they are as long as I'm making it good and he's giving me something. I don't care what he does. He can be immoral, illegal and unethical." This is nothing but fascism. That's exactly what Hitler did. The German people didn't care what Hitler did to other people.
Enforce the noise ordinance
IN REGARD to the caller who spoke of the loud car stereos. I sympathize with her. It happens to us every day. I live on South Sprigg, and I hear it 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It bothers me too, but there isn't much we can do about it. But I do believe it's time for the Cape Girardeau police to start enforcing the noise ordinance. If they don't, the citizens should go to their aldermen, the judges and the court system and start making it be enforced. I don't want these people forcing their music on me.
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Champion for women?
HILLARY IS indeed a champion for women's issues. She knows when to bake cookies, she knows when to stand by her man. She knows her place. Women's rights, indeed.
If you can't laugh, seek help
THERE WAS an item in Speak Out that lamented the viciousness of other Speak Out callers, especially the item concerning squirrels. If I was attacking other squirrel callers, I apologize. The original squirrel caller was talking about having problems with invading squirrels in her garden, and that can be a problem. Squirrels are a nuisance. They can eat gardens. They can even eat their way into houses. If you are having a problem with squirrels, you should contact a pest control expert. On the other hand, sometimes life just sets problems up in front of us, and one of the best things we can do is laugh about it. Maybe we can pretend that the squirrels are part of a United Nations conspiracy and they're flying around in little black helicopters and have a little laugh over it. If you can't do that, it's time to call the pest control officer and try to take care of the problem.
Ask, and ye shall receive
I HONESTLY believe that if Jesus Christ came to this area, the university would ask him for money.
Get sex answers first
SINCE POLITICIANS are all so interested in the president's sex life, the American voter should make up a questionnaire for every politician to fill out about his or her own sex life before running for office. It would save the taxpayers a whole lot of money if they have to investigate them for anything.
Look who's waiting in the wings
OK, SO Bill Clinton may be an adulterer and a liar. So what if he's given hundreds of millions of tax dollars to foreign countries. And maybe he's taken political contributions from the Chinese. And even if he's jeopardized our sovereignty in the western hemisphere, have the American people gone crazy considering impeachment? Don't they realize that waiting in the wings is Al Gore?
Time for Clinton to step down
I WANT to comment about Bill Clinton finally 'fessing up. He put the country through seven months of hell and attacked Ken Starr's reputation and Monica's reputation and made fools out of everyone who has defended him, even his own wife and daughter. Think of what he did to the country. Then, when it came time to testify, when they had proof, he finally 'fessed up and told the truth about it. It's time for him to step down.
Grass high enough to bale at school
THE GRASS at the McClure grade school has been allowed to grow so high and so thick, that once it was mowed, we could bale that and send it to Texas as a donation. They expect the children to return to school in this grass and I assume play in the yard. Someone should be ashamed.
The right kind of problems
HELLO, I'M a Southeast Missouri State University student. I've been spending this summer in Cape Girardeau because it seems like a nice town. I'd like to say I've finally found the perfect town, because when the town's only problem is what side Melvin Gateley milked the cow on, this is the perfect place to stay in.
Disasters, and rumors of disasters
RECENT SOUTHEAST Missourian editorials reviving the fact that we live in an earthquake zone and reminding us of the flood of 1993 were approximately an 8.7 on the Armageddon scale.
Barriers up, but no work being done
I'D LIKE to know when the barriers on westbound Independence at West End Boulevard will be removed. There has been no work done there for two weeks. I wish that somebody would get those things out of the way, because it's a tremendous inconvenience for everybody who uses Independence every day of the week.
Penalize Clinton financially
THIS IN regards to the president's address to the people of the United States. How can the president, who so many people voted for, betray them with no regard for the amount of tax dollars it's going to cost for his own preservation. Mr. Clinton's shame and disrespect for and toward his own family should not carry the financial debt of the United States taxpayers. I believe that Mr. Clinton should bear the financial debt as well. To invoke this, his retirement money should be shortened as a reminder that honesty prevails and to show future presidents that they are not above the law of the land. Beyond a $40 million spin on the ongoing self-denial and misrepresentation of our own president, I do not feel that the rest of the countries of the world look at our government policies we impose for their face value. As time has shown, the government policies have been manipulated by our own elected officials. It is now time to show the world that government will work and impose definite and harsh punishment to the government officials who step over that fine line, as the government does all the normal working men for their actions that they themselves impose.
Does he know what truth is?
THE PRESIDENT says his sex life is private and none of our business. In his bedroom it is. But when it is in the White House, and he is using for his pleasure an intern who's supposed to be working, it is our business. I don't believe one word he's saying. Does he know what the truth is?
Who's a liar? Bimbos or president?
WOW, WHAT an idiot I've been! I thought all those bimbos were lying about our president. Now it turns out our president was lying about all those bimbos! Man, he made a fool out of me.
Should have been paying attention
I THINK it's great that six out of the seven Cape Girardeau council members are interested in the city's future. I found it very difficult to understand Councilman Frank Stoffregen's concern about not having enough information about the proposed new River Campus and School of Visual and Performing Arts for Southeast Missouri State University. Mr. Stoffregen said that additional planning was needed to review the subject when we have been presented tremendous amounts of information the last three months about the acquisition of the property by the university, the plan for the school and the many advantages to the city and the region and the university itself. I think Mr. Stoffregen should have been paying more attention in the last three months and should have joined the other councilmen to unanimously support this great project that will make such an incredible difference for downtown, for the city overall and for the region.
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