Traffic woes

How about some planning?

I was stunned on June 11, when I read articles in both the North Kitsap Herald and the Kitsap Sun. The articles were about how council member Becky Erickson is making a proposal, to local officials, to sequence the lights on SR 305 to allow traffic to flow better.

When we were being primed for the upheaval this project was going to cause, and during time we have waited and waited for it to be finished, officials pacified us by telling us how it is going to help traffic flow.

Then I read these articles, sighting statistics from the 2007 National Transportation Operations Coalition, with facts and figures on how much time and money badly timed traffic lights cost us.

I’m not the smartest cookie in the box, but aren’t traffic lights 99.9 percent of traffic flow? One would have thought that sequencing the traffic lights on SR 305 would have been the first thing these overpaid experts would have considered, rather then the last. Then we have to have a proposal to even consider it?

To me this is another example of a “Money is no object” approach by a governing body. They say, “Let’s just start the project, and we’ll make it up as we go along.”

This SR 305 mess, along with that atrociously ridiculous Hwy 3 and SR 303 interchange in Silverdale, make me truly wonder, if anyone in the state government, cares the slightest about spending our money.

Do we have to make a proposal to the government to use common sense?

Larry Poor

Poulsbo

Judicial Tyranny

Liberal judges tearing America apart

Judicial actions by democratically appointed liberal judges are slowly tearing apart the Constitution and this great nation.

Democrats and liberals for decades have constantly assaulted the first amendment, second amendment and marriage. Their judges convolute and haze every word of the constitution to fit their political agenda.

Consider the first amendment. “Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion.” Through liberal interpretation of a simple statement, we ended up with the “separation of church and state.” Somehow Congress got left out.

Democrats continually voice opinions of U.S defeat in Iraq and they protect our enemies. They started by declaring non-uniformed battlefield combatants to be covered by the Geneva Convention. Now the liberal side of the Supreme Court has decided enemy combatants deserve constitutional protections. This judicial action is without precedence and makes a far reaching mockery of U.S. sovereignty.

There can be a debate on enemy confinement. There is no debate of who is paying for enemy combatant’s religiously sensitive, white-collar incarceration and now their legal defense. Taxpayers are paying millions because of a politically correct democratic mentality and agenda.

Reciprocally our enemies cut the heads off their prisoners.

Politically correct judges now promulgate judicial tyranny.

Dean Jenniges,

Bremerton

Fire fighters

Thanks to you, community

On behalf of the Professional Firefighters and Paramedics of Poulsbo, please allow me to express thanks and appreciation to our community, local merchants and to all the father’s and their families who supported our 10th annual firefighters pancake breakfast on Father’s Day, June 15.

We would also like to acknowledge the generous support, donations and help from Poulsbo Central Market, Poulsbo Noon Lions Club, Starbucks Coffee, Firehouse coffee, Poulsbo Albertsons, Peninsula Extinguishers, Blue Sky Printing, EHL Insurance, Liberty Bay Auto, Courtesy Ford, The Mucky Duck, NAPA Auto and The Downtown Poulsbo Merchants.

Money raised by this event will benefit our community assistance fund.

George Epperly

Firefighter/Paramedic

Professional Firefighters and Paramedics of Poulsbo

Local #2819

Environment

Polluting our Poulsbo bay?

In an age of technical advance and advantage, it is rewarding when our elected and selected public officials do the right thing. Installation of the new landed sewer system vice the cross bay leaker. There is more. With fore thought, the cross bay leaker is being capped and relined so in the event the new system requires repair or servicing, the system can bypass through the cross bay relined system. Bravo Zulu Public Works on thinking for us, the taxpayers, conserving our tax dollars, and utilizing — vice abandoning — this system.

This brings to a renewed point the bay and the one million gallons of sewage dumped in it, contaminating wildlife and the bottom. The lined cross bay and landed sewer system eliminated about 80 percent of the problem. The county and state surveying the septic systems on the bay, eliminating failed systems, will nix another 15 percent. The rest is up to us, the citizens of Poulsbo. Our street drains, most go from our streets directly into the bay without treatment. So the excess fertilizer on the lawn, the leaking fluids from your car, and the pet fecal matter you sweep into the street go into our bay. Wouldn’t you like to watch your children or grandchildren dig some clams and steam them up and eat them without poisoning themselves? Of course you would, so think before you pollute our bay. Tell your neighbors so they’ll help, too.

Ron Savage,

Poulsbo