It's one of those days. People who live out here next to Toyota know what I am talking about. Step outside and get nauseated with an instant headache. I know this is a Kentucky cash cow, but I wonder how much it would cost for an afterburner for paint fumes. Maybe natural gas, possibly running a generator and burning VOCs at the same time, $500,000? It would be worth that.
James McDermott
Georgetown
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Because of our experience as Peace Corps volunteers and staff living and working in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Fiji, and our experience since of knowing immigrants as good friends and family, we have a much broader idea of identity than what Cameron S. Schaeffer described in his recent Herald-Leader commentary (“Tribalism and media prejudice ruining America”, Feb. 16).
We know it’s possible for immigrant citizens to feel connected to and contribute to both the United States and their countries of origin. It is even possible for those who are American-born to be connected to and contribute to the United States and another country. We know an immigrant from Libya who has lived in Lexington for 35 years and says, “I value this country in a different way than people who were born here because I have seen both sides. There is nothing wrong with loving two countries.” Another says, “I am from South Sudan but I am also American. It’s both of me. I have to stand in the middle.”
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