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Feb
22
2008
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Gail Van Wicklen
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
 As a woman living alone, I do not want solicitors on my property or at my door during the day or evening.
With all of the awful things that seem to be happening to women these days, no one wants to put themselves at risk by opening a door.
If I wish to purchase something I will go shopping.
I believe that "NO SOLICITORS ALLOWED" laws serve an important purpose.
From: Gail Van Wicklen
Lansing, NY 14882
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Feb
15
2008
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Larry Fresinski
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
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While not quoted in last week's article, I stated I did not support
such a law regulating solicitors as people already have the ability to Just Say No at the door.
A law would simply make it look like we wanted to stop all solicitors even
though it would allow our community-based solicitors and put undue burden on legal
solicitors. The illegal ones would come to the door anyway.
From: Larry Fresinski
Deputy Mayor, Village of Lansing
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Feb
15
2008
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Dan Veaner
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
 I'm sure it's politically incorrect for me to say so, but I don't think it's logical, fair, or effective for Tompkins County to spend $1,022,589.34 of my state and federal tax money for new voting machines and reducing the number of places I can go to vote, just because someone in Florida was dumber than someone here in Tompkins County and almost 40% of that so a relatively few disabled citizens can vote more conveniently. While it is true that our old mechanical voting machines are aging and would have to be replaced eventually, they work just fine now. Everyone likes them. And there are ways for disabled people to vote now that aren't prohibitively difficult.
The Help Americans Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 has been a disaster from day one. It was a knee-jerk reaction by the federal government to the debacle in Florida during the presidential election that brought the unfortunate term 'hanging chad' into the popular vernacular. Certainly some localities have problems with their voting equipment and procedures. I don't think Tompkins County is one of them. Yet the baby -- you and me -- is about to be flushed down the drain with the bathwater because other communities couldn't get it right.
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Feb
08
2008
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Dan Veaner
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Friday, 08 February 2008 |
Have you ever wondered what anthropologists will think of us a thousand years from now? They probably will think we didn't like music, because you need a CD player to listen to a CD. Since we throw things away instead of getting them fixed, there won't be any CD Players, or for that matter computers, TVs, iPods, kitchen appliances, washing machines... they will conclude we lived in mud huts with no plumbing or electricity.
As a severely sports-impaired person I got a taste of what it will be like to be one of those anthropologists when I watched the last four minutes of the Super Bowl. I had been watching a movie, but it ended and my wife said (to my amazement), 'Let's turn to the Super Bowl.' Based on what I saw I was able to form theories about football based entirely on what I saw and not impaired by knowledge or history. Here is what I came up with:
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Feb
01
2008
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Gail Van Wicklen
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Friday, 01 February 2008 |
While I am not "against" a library, I am against spending more money on one. Lansing residents already pay for the Tompkins County Library in their county taxes and the School Libraries in their school taxes.
I can hardly afford to pay the taxes now and don't think adding charges for a new library are going to help that.
Our buying library books will help Lansing move into the future.
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