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| Opinion | Sunday, May 11, 2008 |
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Voting is a privilege; cast your ballot
Study candidates and issues in time to make May 20 deadline You’ve got your ballot. You’ve got your Voter’s Pamphlet. You’ve got a pile of literature for various candidates and measures, with more arriving in the mail each day. You even have the chance to hear one or more of the presidential candidates in person before Oregon’s ballots are due back at county elections offices by May 20. So: Get to work. Oregon’s vote-by-mail system gives us plenty of time to study candidates and issues in the comfort of our homes before returning our ballots. We don’t have to take time off work, stand in long lines or make snap judgments in an election booth, as in many other states. Important decisions are at stake in this primary election. In state Senate District 9, Republicans and Democrats will each pick a candidate to move on to the general election in November. You Say: Letters to the Editor Support levy for pool, library services I’m writing to urge you to support the renewal of the local option levy that helps maintain the current level of services at the library and the swimming pool. The levy now supplies about one third of the operating expenses at the library and about one fourth of the operating expenses at the swimming pool. You can see how important it is that we have our local option levy continue. Love motivates us to buy greeting cards Now’s the time I think about buying stock in greeting card companies. I mean, everyone in the world will buy a Mother’s Day card this week, right? And then they’ll buy another card next year, and the year after. It’s a money-making machine. Two sounds have been heard in past, present When I was a kid I was told to get my “ears lowered” about once a month. That was well over a half century ago. Things are different today. Now, three or four times a day I’m told to get my ears tested. During the test I thought of all the different sounds of the past that all modern day humans have never heard. Like the snarls of a saber toothed tiger. Or a hairy mammoth grunting or whatever they did. Or the Romans roaring in the Coliseum as the gladiators battled themselves to death. Or the thundering hoofs of ten thousand buffaloes charging across the grassy plains. |
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