This is in reference to two Post-Bulletin articles on July 9, one about WIC funding being denied by the Olmsted County Board, and the other by Mayor Ardell F. Brede proclaiming Rochester a great city.
Is it a great city (community/area) when a basic nutritional program that benefits one of our most vulnerable populations is cut from funding? Those women, infants and children have lost a freedom to enjoy a decent start on life. What a devastating decision for this community.
There was another article dealing with plans by the city to circumvent salary caps for some of the higher-paid officials. Salary caps that can be waived are not salary caps.
Recently, the Dodge County Board voted to allow a huge factory farm hog feedlot to move into the Berne area of Milton Township. The porous soil and rock of this area is a poor filter for contaminants, thus endangering the water supply of the local residents as well thousands of people downstream on the waterways. This same board, however, has enacted regulations to stop adult retail establishments from setting up business in the county.
These examples portray the appalling lack of responsibility on the part of our elected officials to preserve the environment, the indifference to the basic needs of humans and the arrogant appraisal of salaries of highly paid officials.
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Rosemary; A. Bradshaw
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