It’s time for a ‘clean sweep’
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Where we come from has a big effect on who we are now. At least that is my way of thinking. You might think differently than I do on that, but it might be because you came from someplace else.
There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. — Herman Melville
Remaking downtown Pittsburg into a mecca for the arts and into a tourist-type destination for music and classic art cinema fans, with great restaurants and an exciting ambience... Is this an idea whose time has come? I think so, but I am not sure all agree. I enjoyed reading the front-page account of all the possibilities the other day in the Morning Sun. We may not be Branson, but we sure can put ourselves on the map. Just look at our football program! Now if the arts can do for downtown what the football program has done for Pitt State, Pittsburg could be the envy of every small- and medium-sized town in the Four States area. The restoration of the Colonial Fox is a key element in the re-making of the downtown.
Dear editor:
I have been a Girard subscriber to the Morning Sun for as long as I can remember, and I look to it for items I want to know. This is not true anymore. You omit a number of items that I want to know, saying “Go to the website.” I don’t have a computer, and I would guess a number of your other subscribers are in the same boat.
This week as we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., it would be good to remember the breadth of his vision and where we stand today in relation to his dream for us. He worked on more than civil rights. While some progress has been made and we now have an African-American president, many of the causes King championed so magnificently are still waiting to be realized. In fact on many fronts we are now moving backwards and I believe Dr. King would not be pleased.
Dear editor,
Many people believe we need a businessman as president. The last two businessmen to be elected president were a peanut farmer, Jimmy Carter and a failed haberdasher, Harry Truman.
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. It is a time when our President and members of Congress should remember taking the oath of office with their hand on the Bible, the first words of which reads something like this, “I (your name) do solemnly swear to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies both foreign and domestic so help me God.”
Each year The Washington Post holds a contest for readers in which they are asked to supply alternate meanings for various words. Here are some of the 2011 submissions followed by some pithy commentary in italics.
Pittsburg was a railroad city
In regard to Larry Fields’ letter to the editor about giving the old steam engine #1023 to the community of Carona, I cannot understand.
Information for the baby-boomer generation
Your money matters
Keeping you at the edge of your seat
