SOUND OFF / Aug. 12, 2011
Published 12:35 am Friday, August 12, 2011
Sound Off highlights anonymous, brief takes on the news offered via telephone by Daily News readers.
I still think, as the City Council considers a new police station, it should be either in the downtown or in the central part of town, rather than on the north part of town. With this location, officers could patrol on foot or on bike.
Where in the world is “Shoe” in the Washington Daily News? I can’t find it.
I was watching a broadcast of the City Council meeting last night, and I was impressed with the council’s concern over fiscal matters until it decided to give $2,000 to a branding study but it couldn’t find any money for a new police station.
Thanks, Tom Walker, for your letter to the editor. It was very clear and thought out. I wish more folks would come around to your sensible way of thinking.
Once the deal is done with UHS, will there be an investigation into why it was delayed two years and cost Beaufort County taxpayers an additional $6 million. Was this just a case of incompetence by the county commissioners, or was something more sinister involved?
Should the Washington taxpayers be paying for surveillance cameras downtown to catch people feeding cats? I don’t think so.
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