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Page 4A OPINION (ast 2regonian Thursday 2ctoEer Founded October 16, 1875 KATHRYN B. BROWN DANIEL WATTENBURGER Publisher Managing Editor JENNINE PERKINSON TIM TRAINOR Advertising Director Opinion Page Editor 6XSSRUWERWK fire measures OUR VIEW TZo Yolunteer ¿re departments eTuipment Eut it Zill help Mettison haYe issues on the 1oYemEer Eallot: the oldest and least useful :e recommend Yoting in faYor of Heppner and 8matilla :e faYor Eoth Eallot measure for residents ,n 8matilla seYerely outdated Zho liYe Zithin the Umatilla ¿re eTuipment needs to Ee upgraded protection district and Tuickly 'oing so Zill help keep $nd Ze feel the same Zay aEout ¿re¿ghters safe the proposal in and get them to the Heppner scene faster The Eond We recommend measure The Umatilla there supporting 5ural )ire Zill Zork a little Protection 'istrict differently hoZeYer measures in and reTuires tZo Eoard hopes to Umatilla Rural Yotes to pass use million 9oters in Eoth the generated from a and Heppner city of Heppner year general oEligation Eond fire protection and the outlying Heppner 5ural )ire to upgrade that districts. Protection 'istrict outdated eTuipment Zill haYe to approYe The department is the measure for it to still making do Zith take effect ¿re trucks that date Eack into the 'espite that additional hurdle the s )ire¿ghters are depending on air packs that are nearly years old measure itself is fairly cut and dried and Zell past their recommended life Heppner’s current ¿re hall can’t ¿t all their equipment and has no space span for training The neZ Euilding Zould The inYestment reTuired to Ee tZice the si]e and Eetter located make these upgrades is not chicken (at the intersection of HighZay scratch Eut it’s not oYerZhelming and )uller &ounty 5oad for ¿ghting either The oZner of a ¿res Eoth in the city and in the home Zould see a tax increase Zildland surrounding it of a year if the tax passes ,n The cost of the hall fact if the money is used Zisely Zould Ee paid for Zith a split the neZ eTuipment can actually of city residents and ¿re district Ee a moneysaYer in the long run taxpayers ,t Zould alloZ for a Eetter Ey reTuiring less maintenance and maMor oYerhauls operating ¿re department and again quicker response time ,f Ze are going to depend on ,n addition ¿re chief 5usty (stes our rural ¿re departments to Zork gaYe one of the great lines Ze’Ye their tails off during the outdoor ¿re season and through the Zinter heard to support a puElic proMect: “:e don’t Zant the TaM Mahal :e as house ¿res Eecome more Must Zant a ¿re hall´ <ou can almost common than Ze should reTuire hear the masses chanting that great they haYe decent eTuipment to do couplet their MoEs The million Zill not :e recommend a Yote in faYor rid the department of all their old Unsigned editorials are the opinion of the East Oregonian editorial board of Publisher Kathryn Brown, Managing Editor Daniel Wattenburger, and Opinion Page Editor Tim Trainor. Other columns, letters and cartoons on this page express the opinions of the authors and not necessarily that of the East Oregonian. OTHER VIEWS $re you sure you Zant the MoE" ,nterest rates Zere loZ and although aYing Zatched all the deEates the income of men Zithout college and seen all these people degrees declined it Zas masked running for president , can’t Ey rising home prices suEprime suppress the thought: :hy Zould mortgages easy credit falling taxes anyone Zant this MoE noZ" 'o you and Zomen Moining the Zorkforce so people reali]e Zhat’s going on out many household incomes continued there" %arack 2Eama’s hair hasn’t to rise gone early gray for nothing , mean $ir )orce 2ne is great and all Eut it “Up until the year oYer Thomas noZ comes Zith $fghanistan ,S,S and Friedman percent of the next generation the 5epuElican )reedom &aucus ² Zere Eetter off than the preYious Comment not to mention a lot of people places generation´ said 5ichard 'oEEs and things all coming unstuck at once a director of the Mc.insey *loEal &onsider the scariest neZs article this year ,nstitute Therefore eYen though the rich Zere 2n )riday The Washington getting eYen richer than those doZn the income Post reported that “the ladder “it did not lead to Justice 'epartment has political unrest Eecause the charged a hacker in middle Zas moYing ahead Malaysia Zith stealing too´ and Zere sure to Ee the personal data of US richer than their parents serYice memEers and %ut in the last passing it to the ,slamic decade Ze entered the State terrorist group Zhich postpost&old :ar era urged supporters online to The comEination of attack them´ The article technological economic explained that in June $rdit and climate pressures )eri]i the leader of a group is literally EloZing the of ethnic $lEanian hackers lid off nationstates in the Middle (ast and from .osoYo Zho call themselYes .osoYa $frica unleashing sectarian conÀicts that no Hackers Security “hacked into a serYer used Ey a US online retail company´ and dictator can suppress %ad guys are getting “oEtained data on aEout people´ superempoZered and “mutually assured )eri]i it said “is accused of passing the destruction´ to ,S,S is not a deterrent Eut an data to ,slamic State memEer Junaid Hussain inYitation to heaYen 5oEots are milking coZs a %ritish citi]en Zho in $ugust posted links and ,%M’s :atson computer can Eeat you at on TZitter to the names email addresses “Jeopardy´ and your doctor at radiology so passZords locations and phone numEers of eYery decent MoE requires more technical and US military and other goYernment social skills ² and continuous learning ,n the :est a smaller numEer of young people Zith personnel Eillions in college tuition deEts Zill haYe to He included a Zarning that ,slamic State pay the Medicare and Social Security for the µsoldiers Zill strike at your necks in your EaEy Eoomers noZ retiring Zho Zill Ee liYing oZn lands’´ )%, agents tracked )eri]i longer “to a computer Zith an ,nternet address in “Suddenly´ argues 'oEEs “the numEer of Malaysia´ Zhere he Zas arrested MeanZhile people Zho don’t EelieYe they Zill Ee Eetter Hussain Zas killed Ey a US drone in Syria off than their parents goes from ]ero to :oZ: $n $lEanian hacker in Malaysia collaEorating Zith an ,S,S Mihadi on TZitter to percent or more´ :hen you are adYancing you Euy the intimidate US soldiers online ² Eefore Ze system you don’t care Zho’s a Eillionaire killed the Mihadi Zith a drone Eecause your life is improYing %ut Zhen :elcome to the future of Zarfare: you stop adYancing added 'oEEs you can superpoZers Yersus superempoZered angry “lose faith in the system ² Zhether that men ² and a tagteam of cyEercriminals Ee gloEali]ation free trade offshoring and cyEerterrorists They’re all a Eyproduct of a profound technologydriYen inÀection immigration traditional 5epuElicans or point that Zill greet the next president and traditional 'emocrats %ecause in one Zay or Zill make the current deEates look laughaEly another they can Ee perceiYed as not Zorking oEsolete in four years for you´ , Zas Eorn into the &old :ar era ,t Zas $nd that is Zhy 'onald Trump is a dangerous time Zith tZo nucleararmed resonating in $merica Marine /e Pen in superpoZers each holding a gun to the other’s )rance the ,S,S caliph in the $raE Zorld and head and the doctrine of “mutually assured 9ladimir Putin in 5ussia They all promise to destruction´ kept Eoth in check %ut Ze noZ Ering Eack the certainties and prosperity of the knoZ that the dictators that Eoth $merica and &old :ar or post&old :ar eras ² Ey sacking the traditional elites Zho got us here and Ey 5ussia propped up in the Middle (ast and $frica suppressed Yolcanic sectarian conÀicts Euilding Zalls against change and against the superempoZered angry men They are all false The ¿rst decades of the post&old :ar era Zere also a time of relatiYe staEility 'ictators prophets Eut the storm they promise to hold Eack is Yery real in (astern (urope and /atin $merica gaYe Ŷ Zay to democratically elected goYernments Thomas L. Friedman won the 2002 Pulitzer and free markets %oris <eltsin of 5ussia neYer Prize for commentary, his third Pulitzer for challenged 1$T2 expansion and the ,nternet The New York Times. He became the paper’s and gloEal supply chains droYe pro¿taEility foreign-affairs Op-Ed columnist in 1995. up and the cost of laEor and goods doZn H Welcome to the future of warfare: superpowers versus superempowered angry men. YOUR VIEWS Tough to trust council decisions -LOO7KRUQH¶VVXSSRUWRIWKH¿YH cents gas tax prompted me to make seYeraO oEserYatLons , OLYe oXt oI 3endOeton EXt , pXrcKase gas Ln tKe cLt\ ,t EotKers me tKat Ze KaYe to raLse a cent tax on gas EecaXse , tKLnk tKe Xse oI tKe cLt\¶s ¿nances are TXestLonaEOe as $O 3OXte Kas mentLoned :KeneYer a proMect Ls proposed tKe cLt\ neYer Kas mone\ to IXnd Lt 6o Lt eLtKer proposes a gas tax or raLses Iees 2Iten an oXtoItoZn stXd\ Ls oEtaLned Irom ZKLcK Ze Oearn Yer\ OLttOe and costs enoXgK to ¿x seYeraO cLt\ streets $ raLse Ln pa\ Ls gLYen tKe cLt\ manager ZLtKoXt an\ LnpXt Irom tKe cLtL]ens Ke represents 7Ke cLt\ Zas aEOe to IXnd a deYeOoper Ior a KoXsLng proMect on 7XtXLOOa EXt Lt doesn¶t KaYe IXnds to EXLOd a ¿re statLon ,t pOans to deYeOop tKe aLrport propert\ to MXstLI\ tKe %arnKardt KLgKZa\ and attract LndXstr\ EXt Lt Kas not Kappened :Ken IXnds are not aYaLOaEOe to ¿x tKe cLt\ seZer proMect Lt Lncreases Iees on KomeoZners 7KLs ma\ not aOO Ee exactO\ correct EXt a Oot oI cLtL]ens see Lt tKLs Za\ Many city residents are elderly and on ¿xed incomes $ny increase in tKeir cost oI liYing makes a diIIerence in tKeir liYing ,t ZoXld Ee crXel to take a lien on tKeir Kome EecaXse tKey coXld not pay a a montK Iee Some of my city friends KaYe Xrged me to ask for more transparency on EeKalf of tKe city its resoXrces and spending 7Ke one point they tell me is: The city seems to ¿nd money Zhen they say they don¶t haYe it Dorys Grover Pendleton No, potholes are not terrorists , ¿nd the sign on SoXtheast &oXrt $YenXe that reads “Potholes are terrorists help us eliminate them´ offensiYe as Zell as incredulous , Zas on the :ashington '& Mall on Sept ,t Zas not a pothole that tried to drop a plane on me ,t Zas a terrorist This sign minimi]es the terror that , felt trying to get out of :ashington '& as Zell as all the Yictims and surYiYors of )urthermore , feel that if the Pendleton &ity &ouncil Zould get their heads out of the sand (or ZhereYer and alloZ recreational mariMuana to Ee sold in Pendleton the taxes from the sale of recreational mariMuana might Ee aEle to Ee used to ¿ll the potholes $ gas tax" , think not Michael D. Bryan Pendleton Vote yes on gas tax for street upkeep , am Yoting yes on the gasoline fuel tax to Ee used to repair and maintain Pendleton’s existing residential streets :ith passage of %allot Measure Ze Zill Eene¿t from safer traYel more comfortaEle rides and less Zear and tear on our Yehicles , urge you to Yote yes on this important measure ,t’s time to step up and take care of our city streets There’s no such thing as a “free ride´ Carolyn Frasier Pendleton Don Requa statue ¿WWLQJIRU0DLQ6WUHHW , Zas Eack home in Pendleton in July for the Pendleton High School Hall of )ame EanTuet ,t Zas a fun Zeekend as usual , haYe to admit that the highlight for me Zas Eeing present for the unYeiling of the Eron]e &oach 'on 5eTua statue /ooking at that Eeautiful piece of Zork Erought Eack many good memories , rememEer that , Zas not going to go out for footEall 2ne night in $ugust Zhile it Zas still light a Eunch of us Zere playing touch footEall in the island of the PHS parking lot Zhen &oach 5eTua shoZs up to go in the dressing room He saZ us and yelled oYer that since a lot of the footEall players Zere right there you might come in and get your practice uniforms noZ My sister’s Eoyfriend said to me “/et’s go get our uniforms´ , said that , Zas not going out for footEall He said “<ou are going out´ He Zas tZo years older and a lot tougher than , Zas ,t Zas one of the Eetter decisions (that Zas made for me in my life There are a lot of statements made aEout hoZ footEall can make you tougher help you learn teamZork help you in your life after footEall etc $ll of those things applied to me &oach 5eTua Zas tough on us Most of us for the longest time thought our ¿rst names Zere “dammit´ “5eT´ used a great comEination of coaching and psychology to get percent effort out of us This statue is Yery ¿tting for Main Street in my hometoZn saluting the Zinningest coach in the history of the state Zhen he retired My hat is off to all Zho made this happen The list is too long for this already too long letter *ood MoE Phil Winters (Class of ‘71) Gold Canyon, Ariz. Editor’s Note: Letters to the editor regarding the Nov. 3 election will not be published in print after the Oct. 31 East Oregonian. Please submit them by Oct. 29 to ensure publication, provided they meet standards. LETTERS POLICY The East Oregonian welcomes original letters of 400 words or less on public issues and public policies for publication in the newspaper and on our website. The newspaper reserves the right to withhold letters that address concerns about individual services and products or letters that infringe on the rights of private citizens. Submitted letters must be signed by the author and include the city of resi- dence and a daytime phone number. The phone number will not be published. Unsigned letters will not be published. Send letters to Managing Editor Daniel Wattenburger, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801 or email editor@eastoregonian.com.