Vent Line

* To the paperboy who delivers on Westmoreland Drive in Dunbar:Could you please stop folding the paper lengthwise, because when youtake off the rubber band and try to read the paper, the paper justfalls in your face. Fold the paper correctly, please. - Why can'tFAA or someone step in and put a hold on Yeager Airport's upgradeuntil a discussion is made on the new airport? Why should YeagerAirport spend our taxpayers' hard-earned money if it is for nothingin the future? Please, everyone get together on this issue.

- Our county's Pledge of Allegiance states "one nation, underGod." It is still acceptable to recite this pledge in schools and atballgames.Our public school systems are governed by the counties andstates which are a part of this country. God has been a part of ourcountry from the beginning. If you don't like prayer in publicschools, move somewhere else.

- In response to the Monday evening's vent about schools beingequipped with high-tech computers but not calculators. When I wasgrowing up, they didn't provide calculators. The teachers taughtmath, and we learned it without the use of modern-age equipment. Andif you have a computer, it has a calculator built in it.

- If we didn't have cats in the city, we'd be ate up with ratsbecause people sit their garbage out on Tuesday after the truck hasrun on Monday.

- I'm so sick of all these political commercials on TV. Everybodyknows who they're going to vote for. They've already made up theirmind. Why don't you jerk the stuff off there? It's making me sick.

- I read the story about manufactured housing that might comeinto the city of Charleston and just thought your readers might liketo know that in South Hills it has already come in. It came in abouttwo months ago to a very elite section in South Hills. It came in onabout five different trailer loads and really had traffic tied up.

- I would just like to comment on the parking permit proposal forthe residents in areas where there are businesses. It seems to methat the ones who need to buy parking permits are the businesses,not the residents. The residents are on private property, and theyalready pay property taxes each year, and now the city wants tocharge them to park at their own homes. Am I the only one who sees aproblem here? Each business owner should purchase a parking permitfor each of his employees and the residents should be given theirpermits. So Greg Burton, in my opinion, this cost is not justified.It just seems like one more way to get money from the residents ofCharleston.