Observer Forum: Letters to the editor 05.04.15
Crack down on Providence Road drivers
Charlotte’s newest racetrack is also known as Providence Road.
Drive it anytime, but especially at night in south Charlotte. As you try to observe the speed limit you’ll feel like you’re standing still. After tailgating you for a mile or so, drivers whiz by at speeds in excess of 65 mph or more.
It’s rare to see a CMPD squad car stop and ticket a speeder on Providence Road in south Charlotte.
Naturally, once there’s a fatality or two, increased patrols and speed traps will magically appear overnight.
Jon Schuller
Charlotte
In response to Feedback “It shouldn’t be harder to evict a renter than a fetus” (May 1 Opinion):
Insulting to women to compare a woman’s womb to a rented room
I found the article by Dr. Edith Miller Hall disturbing in that she makes an analogy between a rented room and a woman’s womb.
Most women I know do not rent out their private parts to strangers.
Abortion is a personal health decision; renting a room is a business transaction.
To even suggest that abortions are the byproduct of a business transaction is insulting and shows a complete lack of compassion and understanding of the issue by the good doctor.
I would suggest she work on that bedside manner!
Robert S. Williams
Concord
In response to “Loosen N.C. gun laws amidst rising crime? That’s absurd” (May 1 Forum):
More guns on the street? Even more reason for people to protect themselves
More guns on the street? Even more reason for people to protect themselves
What is “absurd” is Forum writer Mary W. Cox’s logic.
She quotes a deputy police chief as saying the rise in aggravated assaults may be related to the number of firearms stolen, which puts more guns on the street, which creates more opportunities for violent crime.
What gun law does Ms. Cox think will control stolen guns?
And if stolen guns give criminals more “opportunities,” as the deputy police chief says, that’s all the more reason law-abiding citizens should be armed for protection.
Jerry Benson
Monroe
In response to “Obama ranks full of Ivy League grads. How’s that working out?” (April 29 Forum):
Ivy League grads I knew focused on problem solving, not partisan agendas
In my quarter century working in Washington, D.C., Ivy League grads were fairly common, but not predominant.
The good ones were usually focused on solving policy or program challenges, not on implanting partisan agendas.
In today’s federal government, the legislative gridlock and resulting floundering is caused, not by too many Ivy League grads, but by adherents of political or theological orthodoxies who brook no compromise with their “values.”
Enlightened policy-making in a fast-moving world can only suffer when fresh facts crash against rigid walls of made-up minds.
Roger Coates
Charlotte
In response to “Riots OK for white sports fans, but black rioters are ‘thugs’?” (April 30 Forum):
Being a ‘thug’ has everything to do with behavior, nothing to do with race
No, Forum writer Eddie Simelton, riots are not OK for white sports fans – or for anyone else.
That is as ridiculous as a mayor saying “…we gave those who wished to destroy space to do that, as well.”
I would call anyone who riots, burns property, or intimidates other people a “thug.” That’s an appropriate description.
It has nothing to do with race.
Edward Yeager
Cornelius
In response to “Wells Fargo foreclosing on whistleblower’s home” (April 30):
I can’t muster much sympathy for whistleblower’s foreclosure dilemma
It’s hard to gin up much compassion for Robert Kraus. He has been living in a $515,000 home since 2006, and just now is being evicted.
That’s almost 10 years – one-third of his mortgage – to learn how to do something else besides complain.
Kraus says: “I can’t pay my mortgage because I did my job at the bank.”
No, Mr. Kraus, you can’t pay your mortgage because you got a monster house you can’t afford.
Jeff A. Gregory
Charlotte
This story was originally published May 3, 2015 at 1:01 PM with the headline "Observer Forum: Letters to the editor 05.04.15."