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  • From: "Steve Wright" <swright AT townofchapelhill.org>
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  • Subject: [Chpac-staff] CHPAC in news: 9-18-07
  • Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:34:11 -0400

Dear CHPAC,

 

Linked and pasted below is an item that appeared in today’s Daily Tarheel.

 

Best,

 

Steve

 

Daily Tar Heel Letters To The Editor

- Transit workers are fully deserving of monument I am having trouble figuring out (the editorial board's) feelings toward the Chapel Hill Transit system.

At the beginning of the year, you called them out for buying buses to solve "chronic problems," yet now you say it is one of the "best (systems) in the country, hand down." This I can deal with.

http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2007/09/18/LettersToTheEditor/Transit.Workers.Are.Fully.Deserving.Of.Monument-2974435.shtml

 

 

TO THE EDITOR:

I am having trouble figuring out (the editorial board's) feelings toward the Chapel Hill Transit system.

At the beginning of the year, you called them out for buying buses to solve "chronic problems," yet now you say it is one of the "best (systems) in the country, hand down." This I can deal with.

However, to say that people who earn $25,000 to $40,000 don't deserve a monument that costs $420,000 is ridiculous. By this logic, soldiers of the Vietnam War, the Korean War and World Wars I and II do not deserve any such monument because they did not make enough money to merit such honors.

Also, I don't think art comes to mind when I think of soldiers, either, so do they still not deserve a monument?

How dare the edit board be so self-centered as to say that a subsidy on textbook purchases, or even worse, a name change of an academic building after the patron saint of beer would be more important than honoring those who work for our community each and every day.

Last time I checked, being honored was irrelevant to one's salary and occupation, but rather, one's service toward others.



Adrian Randall

Junior

Chemistry

 



  • [Chpac-staff] CHPAC in news: 9-18-07, Steve Wright, 09/18/2007

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