Letters to the Editor: Obvious choice in development fight. Basketball is boring.
Choice obvious
Edgemoor Drive, which runs between Nicholasville and Glendover Roads, is short and wide. That invites speed. It has a blind hill and no sidewalks. That increases risk.
People walk dogs or push baby carriages in the street. Kids ride bikes or walk to and from school or school bus stops.
Now the city has been asked to rezone property at the Nicholasville Road end of the street so a beautiful 1924 Dutch Colonial home can be razed and replaced with a yet another unneeded two-story office building with 55 parking spaces.
That would tear a corner off the well-established Southern Heights neighborhood: It also would increase pedestrian risk because the only vehicle access to the proposed new building would be from Edgemoor. The street would be especially attractive when Nicholasville Road is clogged during the morning and afternoon reverse-lane rush.
Lexington’s Planning Commission reached a rare tie vote on the rezoning request last month. It voted again Thursday. Historic home or another office building that would increase the danger of walking on a neighborhood street? A no vote is a no-brainer.
Andy Mead, Lexington
Game snoozefest
Basketball has gotten boring. Dribble and pass. Dribble and pass. Run the shot clock down to three seconds then try to get up a shot while acting like you got fouled. I no longer understand the game. The refs will let the bigs underneath beat on each other mercilessly while calling a touch foul out on the court. They’ll let one receiving a pass take two steps and a hop then call another for walking when he starts to lay down a dribble. Long before the 30-second clock and the three-point shot were envisioned I watched Rupp’s Runts score upwards of 100 points on a fairly regular basis. Nowadays if you total the points for both teams you usually don’t get much more than that. I think I will quit watching.
Douglas Miller, Lexington
Nightmare for Biden
Just four years after leaving office, one-half of the Obama-Biden “dream team” doesn’t look so dreamy, does it, Joe? I wonder if Ukraine could be involved. Apparently, voters think so.
Dale Henley, Lexington
Don’t fall for ‘con’
Louisville’s The Courier-Journal recently published two articles that would cause readers to think Sen. Mitch McConnell serves Kentucky. He does not.
A headline read “McConnell secures $4 million grant for U of L”. Actually, he put in a word for the University of Louisville. Grants are generally taxpayer dollars awarded to meritorious grant applicants. The grant was a small part of $100 million awarded to 28 programs. The grant likely would have gone to U of L even if McConnell did not “put in a good word”.
The other article reported McConnell using scare tactics in telling a U.S. Distilled Spirits Council meeting that even centrist Democrats are coming after you for “free stuff”. Healthcare is a big issue and one must ask why Kentucky lags near the bottom of all states in health, income and education after 36 years of Mitch McConnell.
Don’t be conned by McConnell again. He pokes his head out from D.C. once every six years to pretend he cares about working families. He does not.
McConnell is a career politician who has served himself, the wealthy, and corporations outside of Kentucky.
Please vote to replace Mitch McConnell. Kentucky deserves a senator who cares about us.
Jamie Kirven, Louisville
Rule by law
With the Roger Stone sentencing, it is becoming more evident that our country is moving away from “rule by law” to “rule by who you know”. Our personal freedoms and general security will be compromised. Justice will not prevail. We need leaders in all branches of government to hold fast to “rule by law”. Bullying and undermining lawful processes with critical and threatening comments are unacceptable. There are many countries around the world where “rule by law” is weak and powerful individuals live outside the law; Russia and its President Vladimir Putin for example. These outlaws must be removed from seats of power and not tolerated in America while we still have a choice.
John DeWitt, Edgewood
This story was originally published February 27, 2020 at 11:06 AM.