Republicans who back
Trump on wrong side
In a land and a world where common sense has been vandalized, there is still the passage of time, and the annals of history.
This fiasco will be history one day, and it will be ugly, and all Republicans who support President Trump will be part of it. They are on the wrong side of history.
Betty L. Wiley
Westover
Why are Brewer Hill’s
streets still last on list?
As I revisit my letter to the editor which appeared April 4 in the newspaper, “Brewer Hill not getting a fair shake from Star City,” I realize Brewer Hill is still last on the list with 70% of the streets unpaved.
The paving list that the town developed was broken into three phases:
Phase one including parts of Springdale, Broadway and Kensington Avenue.
Phase two included parts of Kensington, Broadway, Congress, Pleasant Hill, Boyers and Crawford Avenue.
Phase three, of course last on the list, included the streets on Brewer Hill; parts of Saratoga, Center Hill, North Main and Wildwood Street.
My first letter to the editor brought mixed reactions with support from my neighbors and intimidating protests from Star City employees and officials.
Shortly after my letter, the city attempted to open the alley behind my property. Harassment or retaliation? I expect that my right to freedom of speech will be challenged again with an attempt to open the alley even after a vote kept it closed.
It is no surprise that the town has completed its paving for the year and of course phase three was not even started.
In July 2010, the town had an analysis done by a professional engineering company to determine which streets needed repairs and maintenance. This plan of action included streets on Brewer Hill to be addressed before some of the streets in phases one and two.
I truly think that the streets that were paved were political choices made by the mayor, street paving committee and council. If you are going to hire a professional to evaluate your streets, like you did in July 2010, why not take their advice?
Only time will tell if Brewer Hill’s streets will be paved first next year or if the town will have more excuses as to why we are last on the list.
Robert Bennett
Star City
Who does City Council
and BOPARC work for?
So, the Morgantown City Council proposes a condition on the MUB water line through White Park that amounts to a poison pill. According to published reports, it requires MUB to build the water line and then remove it whenever council decides it wants it removed. No utility in its right mind would enter into a right-of-way agreement with that kind of condition attached and we must assume that the Morgantown City Council knows that.
Then BOPARC chimes in with a demand for a $1 million payment in addition to MUB replacing two trees for every one it removes during construction of the pipe line and a demand to build recreation facilities at the new lake. So we must conclude that BOPARC knows that those demands make an agreement for a right-of-way that much more unlikely.
What are the Morgantown City Council and BOPARC fighting with such fervor and such seemingly unreasonable demands? They are fighting a project to provide an alternate source of safe water for the residents of Morgantown and Monongalia County in the event of a catastrophe similar to the one that occurred in 2014, on the Elk River that left 300,000 West Virginia residents without water for extended periods of time.
Who does the City Council and BOPARC work for? Is it the thousands of people who use White Park everyday who will be inconvenienced by the pipe line construction (surely there must be thousands of daily users who will be put out for the two entities to put up such a fight) or the tens of thousands of people who would really like to have a safe and secure second source of water without additional water rate increases and to have that project completed in a reasonable time period.
Robert R. Cockrell
Morgantown
