October 06, 2008 10:49 pm
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Annexation plan is funding gamble
On Monday, Sept. 29, the Kokomo Common Council once again displayed its efforts at being the good stewards of our money that they were elected to do by rubber-stamping another ordinance. The vote was 7-2 for passage on first reading.
Ordinance No. 6554 is for the appropriation of EDIT funds in the amount of $77,000, and $23,000 has already been spent on attorney fees related to the annexation. An additional $75,000 is now being voted on. The meeting minutes can be found here: http://www.cityofkokomo.org/egov/apps/search/results.egov?ss=1&ss_cq=common+council+meeting+minutes.
The true cost of this annexation attempt has just begun.
Where is the city attorney in all of this? He is being paid from taxpayers’ money and is enjoying the benefits of city-paid health care. For what, so the city can hire other outside attorneys to do his job? It’s our money and the future of our city that they are gambling with.
This would be a very good time for Mayor Goodnight and the Kokomo Common Council to talk to Huntington Mayor Steve Updike. Mayor Updike has asked his city council to abandon the proposal after the plan triggered lawsuits against the city and mayor.
Seventy-five thousand dollars could go a long way toward pursuing other areas of development. After all, isn’t that what EDIT funds are for?
Brian Smith
Kokomo
Beer sales belong in liquor stores
This message is to all legislators and the governor: Don’t let the lobbyists run our state. What has our state become? It’s like anything goes.
We close adult bookstores and anything else that might corrupt our kids, but we are now thinking about selling beer on Sunday.
Food and convenience stores, what has happened to Indiana? The only place beer and liquor should be is in a liquor store. You must be 21 to come into a liquor store because they have rules. Food stores and convenience stores don’t have these rules. Any profit made at a liquor store is from selling their products, not milk, bread or candy.
Let’s leave the law the way it is. In your convenience store, most of their help is under 21 and cannot handle these products, or they are not supposed to.
John Mackey
Windfall
Health care must be human right
The unequal access to life-saving drugs and medical care has made death a social disease in the United States.
To help us have more humane and effective health care, we will need some principals. For example, health care should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.
Wealth should not determine one’s share of health care in America as John McCain’s plan will lead to more for those that have and less for the less fortunate. Something needs to be done to make universal health care a reality in America or millions of families will remain without health care. Barack Obama’s plan will enable people from all walks of life to have affordable health care.
Sona Camp
Greentown
Democrats make Bush look bad
President Bush is trying to stay out of the limelight because the majority in Congress, who are Democrats, would be against anything he proposed. FDR didn’t have a global economy that we face now.
People like Nancy Pelosi would find something nasty to say if he tried to do anything. She could only be elected in California. She has been adamantly against drilling for oil no matter how much the country needs it. She and her Democratic cohorts, Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer, have done everything possible to make George Bush look bad.
President Bush has one failing: He’s too kind and good to be president of the United States. He thinks people are basically good and mean well. Unfortunately, we need a president who is crooked and smart enough to stand up to our crooked, avaricious politicians.
History may prove him right about Iraq. Iraq, without Saddam Hussein, will become a modern, successful country. It may become a model for the Arab countries.
Evelyn B. Harrington
Kokomo
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