Here’s how to speed up long security lines at the airport

To speed TSA lines, charge for carry-ons

Airlines should check bags at no cost at the counter. Bags taken through security should be assessed a fee, paid in advance at check-in.

With free checked bags, more travelers will ditch their luggage at the counter and go through security with fewer items.

Security lines will go faster, as well as the lines when boarding the plane.

It’s a win for everyone, because it’s more fair.

Spend on education, not foreign countries

Eric Frazier should have told his daughter that if America would quit spending our hard-earned dollars on these other countries and put the money on our own education system and pay our teachers the decent wage that they deserve, then these students from other countries would have nothing to whine about.

Zip it, Mitt; support the people’s choice

Mitt Romney ran for president as a conservative Republican and lost.

The reason he lost is that he is not a conservative. He believes in man-made global warming, raising the minimum wage and government-run health care – all liberal positions.

Mitt needs to hold his nose and support “the people’s choice” to defeat Hillary Clinton – Donald Trump – just as a lot of us held our noses and voted for Romney in 2012.

Clinton, Obama to blame for voter anger

Hillary Clinton said Sunday that husband Bill will be “in charge of revitalizing the economy, because, you know, he knows how to do it … And especially in places like coal country and inner cities and other parts of our country that have really been left out.”

Left out? You and President and Obama had eight years to do this. Why didn’t you?

Answer: Typical politicians making promises and not delivering.

Faith in mankind? No, expect the worst

I don’t know where Forum writer Marilin Campbell gets her faith in mankind, unless she doesn’t read the newspapers.

In March 2015, an 83-year-old woman was carjacked in a Cotswold grocery store parking lot. She was knocked down and broke her hip.

An employee tried to help her and was beaten up, bitten and run over by the carjacker.

Sorry, the only faith I have in mankind is to expect the worst behavior.

Second Ward plan needs a clear focus

What’s the big idea? It’s an old question, but a good one.

I don’t know the limitations developers and designers faced in developing these plans, but certainly there is a lot of high-powered brain power at work here. And, presumably, there is a concept beyond stuffing a bunch of buildings into Second Ward.

I am afraid it reminds me of the 2020 plan.

Is there anyone on the planet who remembers what that concept was?

A two-headed rhino? Naw, that can’t be

Congratulations to photographer Chuck Liddy who took the photograph of the “two-headed” rhinoceroses that ran online and on page 4A in Tuesday’s paper.

It is quite remarkable, and it took several minutes – admittedly with the help of my wife – to find the lines of separation.

Definitely a photograph for the archives!

This story was originally published May 17, 2016 at 5:41 PM with the headline "Here’s how to speed up long security lines at the airport."