| Show Monday May 172004 A4 H L w " j The Herald Journal Tour view the subject information I deemed as important for a decision of either keeping relocating handing out satellites or discontinuing seemed to go unheard Maybe for the fact there wasn't a need for the information where a decision wasn’t being con- - ' sidercd that evening He thanked the speakers for information and said it will further be discussed Information the county gave and referred to seem to come from an article from The Herald Journal favoring the less than 400-persphone survey done for a county of USU student a by over 93000 on use of TV Transla- tors I'm not writing necessarily to complain I know I have a lack of knowledge that others in the meeting do not that there was also a large lack of the community but there was disappointment And maybe that is in myself Translator dialogue disappoints cjtizen To the editor: th) Recently at a meeting (May for the Cache County Council on the agenda was discussed the “problem" of the TV Translator and funds going to Willow park among other things Only wing a concerncd citizcn of Cache County and Logan City — I ' went thinking it would be an oppor: tunity to sec the county working for the bettering of the community in which we live and to hear about an issue I had concerns about the TV Translators It wasn’t as informative as I thought or could it be considered “for amusement” as the chairman slated as reason someone might be there Most of the members of the council were able to follow the proceedSuzanne Jones V ings which they had handouts and information on that I did not Yet I Logan was able to follow the proceedings ' hnd was more lost at the questions raised by some not q)l pf the coun- cil And yes there were a few ques- tions whichdid promote understanding foF an issue Not being ByJoan Ryan Letters to theeditor on’politi? a public hearing information was 3: '' Candidates related cal and topics minimal except for a few persons to the upcoming Franklin Coun-- 3 Money was the main issue for each e awoke last week to the election will Jbe accepted no gjs ' item on the agenda — allocation and i ty our war of nightmares later than 5 p JiL lXiesday MayJMI ' aiid deemed the receipts 'Aline seemed to be crossed concept many frustrations over many issues ' h deadlines give the newsP 'Something came undone On theissue of the TV Translator As the jarring photos of US sol- paper ample time to process andtj ' when a knowledgeable member of diers 1“- make room for an abusing Iraqi prisoners were anticipated i the TV stations spoke at least one still sinking in another horrific rush of letters at election time: council member continued tolook at image landed Letter writers should also know his watch maybe becaiise of the vr our living 'in unsubstantiated that claims anticipation he had for an upconpng about candidates cannot be pubfl rooms Fivemasked cap--4 PowerPoint presentation' The Chair-- fe lished by the newspapefcij man a few times tried to “wrap’Vup torsare seenv:on video about 'to behead a 1 1 ' : - Is this war or reality TV? Election letters ’ h come believe: that the United States is i imperiab'st impulsive and incone-j in that tent we are no longer the guys Ithe white hats There is no reason to disbelieve the Islamic extremists who say they will ership that casts the enemy as evildokeep slaughtering Americans And ers undeserving of basic human there is no reason to disbelieve House V v‘ treatment Majority Leader Tom DeLay This war is a home movie of “Lord who said of Berg’s killers “We of the Flies” chaotic brutal and as are not going to rest until every last intimate as a stranger's breath on our ' one of mem is in a cell or a cemetery” necks-- ' the quesUon as Amencan sons and It was especially jarting to me to see ' 30(1 Ira91 Lilians grow r female soldiers take part in the brutali- hateful is how does more ties at Abu Ghraib I wiled to think h end? do we stop the bloody i How £ that or however unfairiy irrationally fever-dreaescalatibn of a war that women are better than drat When I has noclear purpose? mentiemedthis toa man 1 know he American ' tiiah that toq communica-'said “Men are better " That question more than anydiing feeds the growing pit in my stomach (: America is better than that” tions worker : The agenda of this war wias unclear Xy I was reminded this week of what I ' from Pennsylvania named Nick Bog The full video available on the from the start — weapons of mass y Robert McNamara the secretary of Internet shows the killer holding up Tdestruction terrorism liberation the y defense during the Vietnam War told v' Time magazine in a 1991 interview Berg’s head like a trophy In a state- spread of democracy? Now whatever have been the rationale has been He was talking about his regrets and ' V will carefully deflate the market bub- -- ment one of the editors says the : might execution is payback for the humilia-- ' swallowed up in the rising tide mistakes “Because of misinformation bles or popthemUS Federal ' ' tion and torture of Iraqis at Abu '! insurgencies and retaliations Reserve chief Alan Greenspan and misperceptions” hie said of get ‘ such We with the war won Ghraib 'Cf'' predictable warned last month that financial ting entangled in a conflict as messy ' “You will receive nothing from uso efficiency that it is so dismayingly trouble in China would “create sig- as Vietnam “there are misjudgments blit coffin after coffin slaughtered in " astounding that we could be so thor-j-y nificant problems” for the USFor as to where a nation's interests lie and ' oughly unprepared for the peace China the problem would be a train ' this way” he says on the videotape ' what can be accomplished’’ When Maj Gen Antonio Taguba Addressing Bush he says' “Your wreck of bad debts and destabilizing ' What regrets will be voiced when ' delivered his findings on prisoner worst days are coming with the help soldiers of this “Lord of the Flies”:-- ' joblessness abuse at Abu Ghraib he told Congress ythe of Unless China reform its govern- - ' have turned gray? What will be war This isn’t 1991 and the Persian the mistreatment resulted from faulty " "l:-ment-ru- n banks and state-ownwhen we ask what our V- "t answer the : Gulfs video game images of tiny:-'leadership a !‘lack of discipline no nation’s interests were in this war and T enterprises loans will continue to be bursts of light in the night sky and '' training whatsoever and no supervif ’ used with little regard for profits what was accomplished? smart bombs detonating grainy build- sion” of the troops The entire postwar ’ : The economy has too much invest- - Something came undone this week lot like that is a ings That war was a computer war occupation prison ' ment money for a system that still ' line was crossed The moral v Some We were unprepared for the scope fought from a comfortable distance ’ It’s allocates time to center We folks home whatever it might once have ' the back to capital trained delivered the for were poorly badly of job demands been Commercialize the core financial narfailed in ami and it to hold The nightmare is ' We have the been of mostly guiddiagrams maps institutions rated from New York news studios ed by at best murky goals and iinevcn onus ' Bcjing may succeed in tweaking leadership Just as the images from by retired generals on retainer the economy down to a more sustainAbu Ghraib seemed to confirm what " Joan Ryan is a columnist for ths San Tiere is something particularly " able 7 percent growth rate But it Francisco Chronicle Send comments unsettling and ominous about the many Iraqis believed about the god- nature of this war It is both unprece- less brutality of the United States so to her in care of this newspaper or can’t ignore moving more of the ' high-tec- h and ' has the war itself seemed to confirm state-ru- n at joanryansfehroni-clecosend her economy into the free mar- - dented and familiar ' Instead battle lines a on of what many around the world have - ket primitive wt ' - ' 3 ’ : map this war shows us real people who have sisters and goofy high ' school friends and posters of muscle cars in their rooms back home It shows how ordinary folks can be reduced to brutes by a war and a lead-- - - - ' f fft 1 v Other views M m ld - : China’s booming economy needs some tweaking The Christian Science ' I white-h- Monitor1 ' economy accounted ot for over a quarter of the world's - £ growth rate in recent years — more : than the US Its hunger for imports helped pull Japan out of a long : - slumpAncTits surplus' dollars gre' ' financing the US debt China'scconomy zipping along atv close to 10 percent growth has' ' become more than a dragon that no' nation dare ignore Recently it's a' that can't be allowed to falter dragon ' In late April Beijing began to take urgent steps to cool an overheated economy for fear that many sectors such as property and steel were financial bubbles waiting'to burst Easy credit and incfficient banks have put too much money in the wrong places in China's government-le- d economy The question is whether such steps : : : f v f : 1 "’f f'f' God”' ' - ed - - - " ' v m : Lawmakers Here is a list of addresses and phone numbers for some of Cache Vhl- ley's representatives in government: CACHE COUNTY COUNCIL ' Darrel Lee Gibbons —representing the north district — 840 S 1 600 West 8 Lewiston 84320 S Brian Chambers — representing the northeast district— 654 E 2160 North North Logan 84341752-057- 4 John A Hansen —representing ttie south district— 252 EMhin Hyrum 258-523- : 84319245-658- 4 Paul Cook —representing the south- -' east district — 445 Glenwood Circle Providence 84332 752-- 1 964 Cory Yeates —representing Logan district No 1— 281 S 100 East 7 Logan 84321 ' Kathy Robison —representing Logan district No 2— 335 N 400 West Logan 8432175345109 Craig Petersen —representing Logan district No 3— 1440 E 1220 8 North Logan 84341 752-902- 752-677- Main Logan 84321 716-712- Sen Orrin Hatch Republican— 3 Clerk: Jill Zollinger 179 N Main Logan 84321 71 6-- 50 Recorder Michael L Gleed 179 N 0 Main Logan 84321 Sheriff: Lynn Nelson 50 W 200 0 North Logan 84321 Treasurer Karen A Jeppessen 179 NMain Logan 84321 71 716-718- 750-740- 94 CACHE COUNTY EXECUTIVE BRANCH Executive: Lynn Lemon 179N 1 Main Logan 84321 Assessor: Kathleen Howell 179 N 0 Main Logan 84321 Daines 11W100 Attorney George 1 North Logan 84321 Auditor: Tamara Stones 1 79 N 716-717- 716-710- 716-836- US SENATE-UTA- H Sen Robert Bennett Republican— US Senate Washington DC Utah office: 20510 (202) 224-544-4 4225 Federal Building 125 S State St Salt Lake City UT 84138 (801) 524-593- 3 Non Sequitur ovn fN& Doing tvfcRt wnu wef KATE? 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INVUTE mfg VlVr - US Senate Washington DC 20510 Utah office: 8402 Fed(202) 224-525-1 eral Building 125 S State St Salt Lake City UT 84138 (801) 524-438- 0 US SENATE4DAHO US HOUSE-UTA- H Rob Bishop Republican — Represents 1st Congressional District which includes Cache County Washington office: 124 Cannon House Office Build-- : ing US House of Representatives 3 Washington DC 20515 (202) Utah office: 324 25th St Ogden 225-045- Larry Craig Republican — 520 ' Hart Senate Office Building Washing2 ton DC 20510 (202) Idaha office: 801 E Sherman Room 193 Pocatello ID 83201 (208) 236-681-7 UT 84401 (801)625-010- 7 224-275- Michael Crapo Republican —111 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510 (202) 224-614- 2 Idaho office: 801 E Sherman Pocatello D 83201 (208) 236-677- 5 Herald Journal nsmmr Th Opinion page intended to acquaint with variety of viewpoints on matter! of public importance and prewda marnban of the community with a fonin ter their views Personal columns cartoons and tetters from readers reflect the opinions of their writers and creators Editorials under the headmaTXrr View represent the mews of the Herald Journal editorial board Members of heedrtonal board: readers DARRELL EHRUCKcrty editor CINDY YURTHfeatures etftor BRUCE SMITHpublisher CHARLES McCOLLUUlmanaging editor tykt conclusions an man GUffy to Stgatfend out of a multitude of tongues than tfmujfi ary l$nd of authoritative selection — US HOUSE-IDAH- O Mike Simpson Republican — Represents 2nd Congressional District which includes Franklin County 1449 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 29515 (202) 225- 5531 Idaho office: 304 N 8th Room 3 325 Boise ID 83702 (208) 334-195- Letters policy The Herald' Journal welcomes letters to the edttor Potentially Rieloua or offensive fetters wB not be published however and the editor reserves the right to adit all letters to conform to the length and style requirements of the newspaper Letters should be: w Typewritten and double-spac-ed No more than 450 words in length Addressed and include daytime phone number tor purposes of verification Signed by the author Individuals are imrted to one published letter within any 3Pday period Address letters to hjtetterQhjnewscom Guest commentaries era also welcome and ere run at ths editor's discretion Judge Lamed Jland American jurist (1872-136- |
