Letters to the Editor, October 30, 2009
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October 30, 2009 - 07:14 AM
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Benson for fire commissioner

I believe Vic Benson will continue to do his best for the fire department, which needs many upgrades. He has done a great deal for the volunteers already and I think he will continue to work for fire safety and for new equipment for the District 3 area.

Robert Kager,

retired Cedardale fireman,

Mount Vernon

Trigger benefits insurance firms

It will be several years before the public option is in operation, and several more years to show that without it the health insurance companies are not lowering their costs and coverage hasn’t improved. The trigger is no more than a delaying action designed to benefit health insurance companies, not sick Americans.

Gail Nicolls

Anacortes

‘Secret deal’ must be scrapped

If money is your main consideration, the public is well served by negotiating prescription drug prices for bulk quantities as currently done by the VA. This is common business practice.

The secret deal President Obama made with Big Pharma must be scrapped so we do not have to subsidize the extra cost of drugs for those who cannot afford the inflated costs in this country.

We, the taxpayers, have bailed out big business too much already and we see no reason to bail out the medical-industrial complex as well, especially when they will secure millions of new customers due to the mandate.

Eva Millette Coombs

Camano Island

Give Sandstrom a chance

I am writing to encourage you to vote for Brett Sandstrom for Sedro-Woolley City Council. He’s got some great ideas on how to help Sedro-Woolley rebuild a great new city. His opponent goes on and on about how he thinks putting in a bunch of big-box stores is the right answer for the town’s economic and shopping choices. That might have been a great idea in 1990 when things were booming, but now?

We need some realistic, new ideas, and they don’t include turning Sedro-Woolley into another Burlington!

The City Council has become disconnected from the residents it serves. None of them have ever held ward meetings to ask us what we think about things.

Let’s give Brett a chance.

Paul Chaplin

Sedro-Woolley





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