OpinionMay 24, 2003
Using city funds for state project just isn't right
To the editor: In response to Rhonda Roth of Malden, Mo., many people think along the lines of Jim Drury, who has pointed out the problems of the voting for the River Campus. I too am opposed to using city tax funds for the money pit at Southeast Missouri State University. Roth should ask the Malden City Council for $8.9 million to send to SEMO...
To the editor:
In response to Rhonda Roth of Malden, Mo., many people think along the lines of Jim Drury, who has pointed out the problems of the voting for the River Campus. I too am opposed to using city tax funds for the money pit at Southeast Missouri State University. Roth should ask the Malden City Council for $8.9 million to send to SEMO.
Drury is always thinking ahead. It would be a losing project to build a hotel downtown. If it wasn't, someone would have already done that.
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Using much-needed city tax funds to support a state institution is not right. I might have made a terrible statement and used a double negative, but I am very positive on my convictions.
JOHN R. HECKROTTE
Cape Girardeau
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