OpinionFebruary 23, 1997
SPEAKOUT
NOW THAT studies have found that these clowns who try to drive and talk on cellular phones are as dangerous as intoxicated drivers, they need to know: If work is that important, stay in your office. Also, no one is impressed by some buffoon with one hand on the steering wheel the other wrapped around a cellular phone...
Cell phones and driving
NOW THAT studies have found that these clowns who try to drive and talk on cellular phones are as dangerous as intoxicated drivers, they need to know: If work is that important, stay in your office. Also, no one is impressed by some buffoon with one hand on the steering wheel the other wrapped around a cellular phone.
Inside the produce section
I WORK in the produce section of a local grocery, and I'd like to tell people why produce is so expensive. If someone drops what they are buying, they'll put it back on the shelf and get another. This leaves it to be tossed out or another customer could end up with a bruised apple or banana. Customers squeeze the fruit to see how firm it is, but of course when you squeeze something, it's going to get soft spots and bruise. No one else is going to buy a bruised kiwi or peach. Face it. What about people who sample the peanuts while they are shopping and then hide the shell in another display? They think they aren't paying for that peanut. Well, they are, in something else they bought. It's called waste, and waste is figured into your price. That includes the two or three grapes you tried to see if they were sweet, the extra pieces of cabbage you break off and hide under another head and the strawberries you pick off other boxes because yours doesn't look full enough. Sound familiar? Maybe a few people will realize what they've been doing.
Compassionate doctor
I THINK it's great that Dr. Jan Seabaugh, a hometown girl, is practicing medicine in Cape Girardeau. She's a wonderful doctor, kind, caring, compassionate and highly skilled.
Question of fairness
I WAS reading the article in the Southeast Missourian about the proposed Bollinger-Cape County lake. I can see both sides of the story, but I can see more of the homeowners' part of it. Tell you what, to make it fair, why don't we take Mr. Kinder's house and make it into a batting cage. How about that, Peter, wouldn't that be fair?
Fortunate county
LAKE PROJECT. I attended a meeting against the lake, and I was privileged to sitting next to the presiding commissioner for Bollinger County. I want to say to the people in the county that you are fortunate to have him. I was glad to see the large attendance and how well the meeting was conducted.
Money for inauguration
REGARDING the college president's inauguration, I'd like to say all the money that they are spending on that inauguration party, why not take that money give it to some of the college students to go to school, some young folks who can truly not go because of finances? Plus, the part the president played at being poor should not only make him think seriously about the waste of money being spent on it. He could really make a name for himself.
Lake isn't a good idea
I JUST wanted to comment on the group of people pushing to establish this lake here between Bollinger and Cape Girardeau County. That has no merit whatsoever if they would just stop and think. We have Lake Girardeau. That brings nothing and has developed no growth in the area. We have Clearwater Lake that has brought no growth at all to the area. We have Lake Wappapello that draws just the local people. Lake of the Ozarks is dying, and unless they get a gambling boat out at Lake of the Ozarks, it is going to continue to die. Why not let these people that have had this farmland in their families for several generations, why not let them keep it, enjoy it and do with what they want to do with it? Don't force them to sell.
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Great gymnastics event
GREAT THANKS and appreciation goes to the Southeast Missouri State University for bringing great gymnastics meet to Cape Girardeau. Gymnastic events are a great treat for all of us in the community.
Pure greed
THIS THING about the lake project that's proposed for Bollinger and Cape counties. I've never heard such a thing that they can use eminent domain and take people's land away from them. I live here in Cape Girardeau, and I think it's wrong. That reminds me of something that could happen maybe in World War II Germany where the Nazis come in and take whatever they want. I didn't think that could happen here in this country, but it seems to be happening today. The bottom line of it all is greed, pure greed. Some people would sell their mother and father for $1 just to make $1.
Sauce for the gander
WHEN REPUBLICANS wanted to slow down the cost increases for Medicare to balance the budget, they were called mean-spirited and all sorts of bad names by the Democrats. Now that President Bill Clinton is calling for cuts in Medicare, does that mean he's mean-spirited and all those bad names too?
Pilots are worth more
THIS IS my opinion. If uneducated sports figures who entertain us are worth millions of dollars a year, then the people who fly the planes and have our lives in their hands are certainly worth more than that.
Landowners don't want the lake
FOR SEVEN years, we've heard about this great and glorious lake out there at Millersville. The people are against it and don't want it. The people who have the property want to keep the property. They just keep pushing and pushing wanting that lake in there. It isn't going to do what they say it's going to do. It isn't going to employ the number of people they say it's going to employ. It isn't going to make that big an economic impact on the area. All it's going to do is take out a bunch of farmland from people who don't want to lose their farm, people who have owned this farm in their family for over 100 years. Why in the world can't somebody take the answer that they're giving them? They don't want to lose their property, they don't want to put up with the lake, they aren't going to make anything of it, and the only ones who are going to make any money out of that lake are the people pushing for the lake. I don't want the lake and wouldn't go out there if it was there. I'm not interested in seeing the economic impact on the area. We've got good employment in the county and the area, and we don't need a lake. Why don't they shut up about it and leave it alone? Just one person's comment. The people who own the property don't want to lose their farms. Why can't they take that into consideration?
Won't go see Madonna
I WOULD not go to see the movie "Evita" if it were the most expensive, the greatest movie ever made in the history of this country simply because I have absolutely no regard for the woman who calls herself Madonna other than total disgust, disdain and repulsion.
Get in environmental gear
IF PETER Kinder keeps up his anti-environmentalist attitude, I think he ought to read Page 12 of the February-March issue of Missouri Wildlife magazine. In that, they say that Peter Hart, a Democrat pollster, and Victor Beglio, a Republican pollster, worked together doing a poll. In the poll, it said that 54 percent of the people who had voted in November stated that the environment was very important to them in their choice of a candidate, and 75 percent named the environment as a high priority issue. In other words, Pete, there are three-fourths of us who disagree with you. Come on, get in line. This is not the olden days. You're representing a group that is very, very depressed compared to the rest of the state and the rest of the country. For God's sake, man, get in gear.
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