Tree City USA? | Letter
An item in the Reporter noted that Redmond has been designated a “Tree City” by the Arbor Day Foundation for the 14th year. To qualify for this honor, a city must “designate staff to care for trees, appoint a citizen tree board to advocate for community forestry, establish a tree ordinance, spend at least $2 per capita on tree care and celebrate Arbor Day.” Redmond is missing one critical element of these qualifications…a citizen tree board to advocate for community forestry.
Thanks, Judge Korman | Letter
When a federal court recently ruled that the FDA must lift the age restriction and allow emergency contraception to be accessible, over the counter, to all ages, people started screaming, “abortion pill.” Not this again? Scientific research has determined that emergency contraception is NOT an abortion pill.
Many people need the post office | Letter
In a heartless and misinformed rant (“Who needs a post office?,” April 5 Reporter) Chris Starling reveals a profound ignorance of American post offices.
For more than two centuries, they have provided critically important services everywhere, as well as a necessary social hub for small-town America. Millions of us don’t share his scorn for an institution both valued and historic. But let’s put emotions aside.
Cartoon missed the mark | Letter
I just read the comic, “We give our preschool children drugs...” on page four of your April 5 edition. I would like to say I found it totally offensive and misguided. When it comes to giving our children medication, these are not decisions parents or their doctors take lightly. Also, neither Prozac nor Ritalin are routinely prescribed before the age of 5. Please consider your community and audience before publishing ridiculous and distasteful comics such as this. Thumbs down for the Reporter this week, you really missed the mark on this one.
Carolynn Takacs, Redmond
Students talk global warming | Letter
Today we are talking about global warming and how it affects people. You may be thinking, “What is global warming?” Global warming is where carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases go to the atmosphere, group together and make more heat bounce back to Earth than going out of the atmosphere. That’s the problem. It’s really supposed to be the other way. Think about it. Do you affect it, too?
Thanks for Trevor story | Letter
Thank you for the story and for keeping Trevor Price’s memory alive in the Redmond/Sammamish communities. To this day, I’m still amazed at the overwhelming support the local community offered to my brother, Steve, and his family during Trevor’s illness. I hope this story inspires hope and continues to bring in funds to end leukemia.
Carolyn Price, Trevor’s aunt, Seattle
A new frontier: A sustainable plan for state’s stormwater | Letter
This letter was drafted in a meeting of our coaches whereby we focused on how to best benefit our local community. We attended Environmental Lobby Day in Olympia on Feb. 19 and were moved by Gov. Inslee’s speech on the rotunda that afternoon.
Who needs a post office? | Letter
I read with interest your correspondent’s letter in the March 1 Redmond Reporter about the congressional “attack” on USPS. The writer evidently believes passionately in the post office.
When did you agree to be a science experiment? | Letter
For more than a decade, Americans have been eating genetically engineered corn, soy, canola, beet sugar and several other food crops. Research into the safety of these foods is woefully inadequate, usually 90 days in length, which cannot evaluate long-term effects on the human body or on the environment.
Thanks for Make-A-Wish fund-raiser article | Letter
It’s wonderful to see youth participating in philanthropy and making wishes come true for children with life-threatening medical conditions (not terminal as is suggested in the article). As an employee of our local Make-A-Wish chapter, I find all giving inspiring, but particularly when it comes from kids helping other kids. Nice work!
Jeannette Porter Tarcha
‘We are a great caring network’ | Letters
(In response to Washington Cathedral being forced by its lenders to sell its property — March 22 Reporter.)
• I am looking forward to how this will all come together. We have amazing people in leadership and in the congregation. We will still do all the things we are known for. We are a great caring network.
Fiona Monaghan, administrative assistant at Washington Cathedral
