LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.Byline: The Register-Guard PERS a. 1. Light blue; grayish blue; - a term applied to different shades at different periods. return doesn't add up Let me get this straight. After investing in real estate and private equity firms that are described in your editorial as "high-risk, high-yield investments," PERS only made 15 percent in 2006? The S&P 500 went up 14 percent without all that risk. Even I made 18 percent in my retirement account, and I could only choose among five diversified index funds like the S&P 500. ED GANDY Springfield School should stay put Why would the Springfield School Board consider moving Thurston Elementary School elementary school: see school. nearly half a mile from its current site down an undeveloped rural section of Thurston Road? There are no good reasons for the board to relocate Thurston Elementary to a site near Bob Artz Park. Common sense dictates rebuilding the school on the current site, which has adequate space for the new building with improved parking and traffic flow. Many logical considerations support keeping the school's present location: Moving the school would require widening 0.4 miles of Thurston Road and installing sewers, sidewalks and bike lanes. This infrastructure is already in place at the current location, making the proposed school relocation an irresponsible spending of taxpayers' money. Students would be required to walk farther to school to a more remote rural location, endangering their safety. Thurston Elementary would no longer be located in the urban Thurston neighborhood close to the students it serves. Relocating the school would destroy an environmentally important open space, damage the local ecosystem, contribute to urban sprawl and destroy the rural quality of east Thurston Road. An ecological learning park could be created at the Bob Artz site as an educational resource for teaching about plant and animal habitats. Concerned parents and neighbors, please contact the Springfield School Board and the Springfield School District superintendent District Superintendent may be:
BETHANY THOMPSON Springfield Fans often out of bounds Commendations are in order for Superintendent George Russell For other persons named George Russell, see George Russell (disambiguation). George Allen Russell (born June 23, 1923) is an American jazz pianist, composer and theorist. and the OSAA OSAA Oregon School Activities Association OSAA Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (United Nations body) OSAA Ocean State Aquaculture Association OSAA Office of the Sergeant-At-Arms (Philippines) for finally recognizing that more needs to be done to hold spectators and crowd management school personnel accountable for unsportsmanlike behavior displayed at basketball games. Having either refereed or attended many local prep basketball games over the years, I have observed unsportsmanlike behavior that has not been proactively quelled by staff. It has almost been laughable to hear the PA announcer read the league spectator sportsmanship policy at each game in light of these persisting actions. What happened during the 5A boys basketball tournament is the culmination that is to be expected when crowd management staff at high school basketball games have failed to adequately do their jobs and when adults at home neither modeled nor taught their offspring courtesy and respect for others. GARNER S. WARREN II Springfield EmX is part of the solution In response to the woman who did not want the EmX bus line to expand to West 11th Avenue: I had the opportunity to ride the EmX bus from Spring- field to Eugene a couple of weeks ago. What a pleasure! My thoughts were we need to expand this to east Springfield and west Eugene and implement a gas tax to pay for it. Encourage citizens to ride rather than drive. We also need to expand the bus system and use biodiesel fuel produced locally. To solve the problems of congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. on West 11th, we could have a park-and-ride near the corner of Greenhill Road and 11th Avenue. With the population increasing, the price of gasoline rising and climate change breathing down our backs, we must plan accordingly. The downtown development should make this a priority. There is a big disconnect there. Yes, we need to make sacrifices. Walk and ride bikes more, conserve energy, buy less stuff, share, carpool car·pool n. also car pool 1. An arrangement whereby several participants or their children travel together in one vehicle, the participants sharing the costs and often taking turns as the driver. 2. , grow and preserve our own food. It might actually be fun and empowering. A year-round covered farmer's market is essential. Local businesses are good for Lane County's economy and the environment. We must stop purchasing cheap junk from the other side of the planet. Scientists believe we only have five to 10 years to turn this ship around! This is an exciting time and we are obligated ob·li·gate tr.v. ob·li·gat·ed, ob·li·gat·ing, ob·li·gates 1. To bind, compel, or constrain by a social, legal, or moral tie. See Synonyms at force. 2. To cause to be grateful or indebted; oblige. to do what we can for all species on Earth. Our lives and the lives of future generations depend on us to act now. PAM DRISCOLL Dexter Eugene ignores neighbors Springfield, in its desire to rid itself of the Eugene City Council's helpful influence regarding its urban growth boundary "UGB" redirects here. UGB may also refer to Unión de Guerreros Blancos (White Warriors' Union), a death squad founded to repress leftist elements in El Salvador. An urban growth boundary, or UGB future, has turned to the state Legislature A state legislature may refer to a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system. The following legislatures exist in the following political subdivisions: The press dubbed Piercy's election part of a "shift to the left" for the Eugene City Council. , the mayor for all of Eugene (except, of course, the voting majority). In her guest viewpoint (Register-Guard, May 3), Piercy laments, "We respect our neighbors and meet with them regularly. We only ask for that respect to be mutual." When Piercy says "we respect our neighbors," does she mean like when she ignored three city-wide votes in favor of the West Eugene Parkway The West Eugene Parkway was a proposed re-alignment of Oregon Route 126 through the western parts of Eugene, Oregon and its suburbs. Highway 126 through western Eugene currently runs along several surface streets (including West 11th Avenue); this route is well-known in the Eugene (and specifically, NO other alternatives) ... or when she and then-Councilor David Kelly  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. threatened to block favorite projects of Eugene's two partners, Springfield and Lane County, if those two entities didn't go along with Piercy's demand to kill the parkway project? Incredibly, Piercy was quoted at the time as saying something to the effect, "Why can't we all just work together on this?" Yikes yikes interj. Used to express mild fear or surprise. [Origin unknown.] ! But Piercy did say Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. thinks we're swell here for an affordable housing program that is up for an award. As it turns out, that program has been operating since 1979, long before the current mayor and City Council began alienating hospitals, voting majorities, neighboring communities and virtually anyone with a lick of common sense. The real issue at hand is Eugene leadership's unwillingness to update its own urban growth boundary and Piercy's growing legacy of "let's all be reasonable and do it my way!" DAVE A file sharing program from Thursby Software Systems, Inc., Arlington, TX (www.thursby.com) that allows a Macintosh to share files with a PC. Designed specifically for and needing installation only on the Mac, DAVE works with Microsoft's native SMB/CIFS file sharing protocols and uses FENNER Eugene Voice of the voters ignored Oregon Democrats in the Legislature and our governor are working hard to gut our property rights under Measure 37 that we recently approved. The Legislature and governor ignored our vote, which defined marriage as between a man and a woman, and passed the functional equivalent by authorizing civil unions. Lane County's effort to pass an income tax likewise reflects official contempt toward the public they are elected to serve. Why does our government so easily disregard our will? Simply put: We elect Democrats and like-minded Republicans to political office perpetuating the cycle of abuse. If you vote for a Democrat in the state of Oregon you are voting for big government, less freedom, higher taxes, reduced economic growth and a much higher chance of being unemployed. Democratic Party officials are deeply elitist e·lit·ism or é·lit·ism n. 1. The belief that certain persons or members of certain classes or groups deserve favored treatment by virtue of their perceived superiority, as in intellect, social status, or financial resources. . They won't admit it, but it flows naturally from their philosophy that puts more trust in bureaucracy to improve society than private ingenuity and effort. It is time to trust government less and earn the respect of our politicians. We must hold our representatives accountable for their treachery every time they thumb their noses at our votes. Until then we have no one to blame but ourselves. CLYDE CARSON Springfield It's not all up to you My heart goes out to Madeleine Albert Berenson for her difficult and lonely struggle to decide to keep her first born child rather than abort (1) To exit a function or application without saving any data that has been changed. (2) To stop a transmission. (programming) abort - To terminate a program or process abnormally and usually suddenly, with or without diagnostic information. him (Register-Guard, May 9). But I'm troubled more by her argument that it was a decision that was no one else's business to inform her in any way, shape or form. Can she look into the face of her "brilliant and kind 27-year-old son" and say that her choice to abort him instead would have been equally valid and right "for her own house?" If she can, how would she reason this conclusion? What is the basis for her decision to abort or keep her son that keeps it from being capricious and arbitrary? Why can't her argument that no one has a right to speak to her situation about what is right, good, better, moral or wrong be applied to Seung-Hui Cho
Seung-Hui Cho[2] (January 18 1984 – April 16 2007) was a student at Virginia Tech who committed the mass murder of 32 people[3] and wounded 25 others[4] ? He too faced difficult and troubled times and at the end of the day he went home alone to face his demons Demons See also devil; evil; ghosts; hell; spirits and spiritualism. ademonist one who denies the existence of the devil or demons. bogyism, bogeyism recognition of the existence of demons and goblins. . He finally made a choice that, if we apply Berenson's reasoning, "no one has the right to tell any (person) faced with (these) profound circumstances how (he) should feel, what (he) should endure and what (he) must do. ... ." People like Berenson do not realize that the ultimate logic of their individualistic and subjective thinking leads to frighteningly absurd and unsupportable conclusions. DAVID F. ORTEGA Springfield 'Same old liberal agenda' While it's certain that a new paradigm New Paradigm In the investing world, a totally new way of doing things that has a huge effect on business. Notes: The word "paradigm" is defined as a pattern or model, and it has been used in science to refer to a theoretical framework. (Kathy Reay's letter to the editor of May 11) has been forced on the majority of Oregon voters by an arrogant minority, it's also clear that false stereotypes are being used to justify the new order. In Reay's letter, she chooses to blame the Bible for several half-witted half-wit n. Slang A foolish or stupid person. half  -wit ideas that the Bible simply does not teach.
The Bible teaches that all human beings are created in the image of God. And the Bible nowhere teaches the sun revolves around the earth. It just reports man's view of the sun, just like The Register-Guard reports the daily times of sunrise and sunset Sunrise and Sunset are a pair of pegasi in the Dungeons & Dragons-based Forgotten Realms setting. The pair were rescued from giants by the moon elf Tarathiel a few years prior to 1370 DR, and after this they served as winged mounts for him and his partner, . The truth is that Oregon's governor and his legislative cohorts pushed a homosexual rights bill on the public because they couldn't get it done by the voting process. The rich, radical gay rights crowd just got richer as they hoodwinked a lot of people into thinking it was an affirmative action affirmative action, in the United States, programs to overcome the effects of past societal discrimination by allocating jobs and resources to members of specific groups, such as minorities and women. issue. God created all people equal, but the governor made some more equal than others when he signed the bill. He assumed a moral authority that the voters of Oregon never granted him. The new paradigm is really the same old liberal agenda wearing a different mask. ED HEATON Springfield |
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