Letters to the Editor

To the Editor: My question to the mainstream media. Why do you instill fear and why do you instill hate? 

By not adhering to the guidelines we’re putting our loved ones, friends, neighbors and health care works all at risk of this horrible virus.  Some say it’s a matter of freedom. Well, I have always heard that “Freedom isn’t free.”

Whatever you might have done, I want you to know that we could not do it without you.

Every year Americans are confronted with natural disasters, tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, floods. Homes are leveled, businesses are destroyed. Lives altered tragically, some lives lost. We’re being hit right now by a natural disaster, a bad one that comes once a century, a deadly contagion that knows no borders.

Can $40,000 be better utilized: blight, unsafe sidewalks, rainy day fund for emergencies, such as River Road, or more chip-seal on country roads?

To that end, the following is my opinion of a colorful Facebook group, the “Concerned Citizens of Presque Isle.”