Home values rising
Monday, August 25, 2008 1:25 AM PDT
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Home values rising
I have to agree with Mac Janke (Aug. 21 letter) in reference to his property sitting on gold. Where I live in Longview, I was shocked to see that my property went up $46,000 in one year.
I had been reading and hearing about a housing slump for the past year, but I guess in Longview that is not true. Houses must be selling like hotcakes. What a huge jump, I must be on sitting on the same gold mine as Janke. Oh, how lucky we are.
Julianne Dorr
Longview
True heroes
Life Flight is coming to Longview/Kelso. Now this is an important story.
You at the paper have the responsibility to tell the people of this area that for $65 a year per family Life flight will accept your current ambulance coverage as payment in full if you or any family member should need medivac.
My family has been Life flight members for 16 years and they are the best folks in the area. True heroes.
Syndi Bay
Kelso
Prevention through education
I want to thank John Martinez Weston for his response to my letter about “glass art.” I agree with him wholeheartedly that banning the sale of these items and others would not solve the issues we have here and in every community in our country. I agree that education, prevention and rehabilitation are the answer. Prohibition is not the solution,
I don’t believe that I indicated that it would stop people from smoking meth or cure drug addiction or anything of the sort. I also realize there are specialty shops that sell all kinds of “glass art,” liquor stores that sell alcohol, smoke shops, etc. I am not suggesting in any way the prohibiting of anyone’s choices. I have observed firsthand the lives that have been ruined by meth addiction. I have also observed the miracle of rehabilitation.
I am fighting advocate of prevention through education. I also choose not to shop in a store that promotes and sells meth pipes. I choose not to take my grandchildren into a store that promotes and sells meth paraphernalia. They also have observed firsthand what meth can do. What kind of message do I want to send to them? I stand by my choice.
Cindy Helms
Longview
Northwest needs natural gas
Regarding L.L. Brock’s letter in the Aug. 6 issue of The Daily News, I do not intend to continue this discourse with those opposed to the proposed LNG facility at Bradwood. They only offer information which is either twisted, skewed, spun or out-right wrong in their effort to put the proposal in the worst possible light.
Brock claims foreign LNG is 30 percent more polluting than native natural gas. It is not, Where is the proof? Brock claims that “hot gas” caused leaks and required redoing piping at the Cove Point, Md., LNG facility. It did not, Where is the proof? Go to the FERC Web site regarding Cove Point and it will be clearly explained.
There is a significant use of natural gas in the Pacific Northwest. The need for this fine-burning fossil fuel will continue to grow. This nation will require the use of fossil fuels for at least another 50 years — much longer if our Democratic-controlled Congress doesn’t get off their duffs and open up exploration on our continental shelves, push the building of numerous nuclear power plants, the expansion of water power generation and the expansion of wind power generation, and require that motor vehicles get 40 miles to the gallon and operate on natural gas.
Dale Foster
Rainier
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