Articles in the News & Record inspire me to suggest solutions to various problems within our community and state.
On flooding and sewage spills in Latham Park, integrate the community like Woodmere Park. The city will immediately respond, as they did to the landfill stench. The probable long-term cost of trash transfer will far exceed the cost of sewer repair. What about the stench from Osborne Wastewater Treatment Plant? Which of these problems causes more immediate environmental damage and health risk? By law, all new landfill cells are lined and have leachate collection systems.
On the new jail cost, Skip Alston used his vast architectural and engineering expertise to devise a plan that lowers the jail cost to $4.5 million. Skip, apply this limitless knowledge to the cost of the Civil Rights Museum.
On state execution, the editorial (March 10) is ironic. "If the state can corrupt doctors, it can poison all," is very true. My solution to the dilemma with which the Department of Correction and the Medical Society are wrestling is simple. Change the state death sentence statute's wording from "death by execution" to "removal by abortion, type B." Problem solved.
Larry Chandler
Greensboro
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[[On flooding and sewage spills in Latham Park, integrate the community like Woodmere Park. The city will immediately respond, ]]
Actually, the city responded in 2003, approving a new and bigger sewer outfall to the North Buffalo plant. (The state had told it to fix the problem or else.) A project of that type takes a lot of design time and time to secure all the necessary permits. But work is scheduled to begin around May 1. As it happens I've got a story that touches on this subject (though it isn't the main focus) tentatively scheduled to run Friday.
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March 22, 2007 10:48 AM