■ LETTERS Vote no on 5,20 I oppose fallal Measures 5 anti 20 ns they will have a profound ly negative effect on the state’s ability to invest in people and a much needed infrastructure Each year, state and local gov ernments issue about Si billion in bonds. These tKinds aren’t for "frills"; they pay for such things as schools, roads, bridges, water systems end housing Issuing bonds is a fair and equi table way to share the costs of these long-lived projects with future users Further, these pro jects create family-wage jobs for (Iregonians and contribute to the quality of life in our state Borrowing money through the issuance of bonds makes Bunn ( ini sense, and is the same as a person borrowing long-term to buy a house. Paying cash for a home usually isn’t feasible, and the same is true with large capi tal projects The state has been very pru dent in its borrowings, and in fact, most of the state’s txind pro grams ant self-supporting, which means the revenues collet ted from the projects, not tax dollars, pay off the bonds Passage of either Ballot Mea sures 5 or 20 will bring the state’s bonding program to a halt. Ballot Measure 5 will create a situation where any future bond program will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in increased interest costs and construction delays. Ballot Measure 20 elim inates bonding altogether. Ballot Measures 5 and 20 are destructive for Oregon and I encourage Oregonians to vote against them. Jim Hill State Treasurer Bear down To all those tree-hugging, root eating animal lovers out there: (let a life! Ballot Measure 1H will prevent Oregon from controlling preda tor populations, bears and cougars. It will eliminate the tools wildlife managers need to con trol dangerous cougar and bear populations and place our chil dren ut risk Besides, if this measure pass es, I won't lie able to finish i ar peting my family room with bear skins Vote No on Ballot Measure 1M Don Vladsdek Eugene Real threats OCA-ers assort that Ballot Mea sure 13 is designed to protect children Additionallv. the OCA cites elimination of sjms tal rights as one of its masons for existent »• Hiev feel that the lifestyles peo ple freely choose should not give them prote< tod t ivil rights status We've continued these two goals and have arrived at what the (XIA's agenda should really lie: 1 Amend the constitution to ban government support of het erosexual men. 2. Eliminate special rights based on religion. This would actually support the OCA's stated goals Straight men make up the largest per centage of child molesters, and religion is clearly something one chooses — hence the term "born again " Obviously, men should be banned and religion no longer protected in hiring, housing, etc. We imagine that CXiA-ers who have religious affiliations would t*i under considerable stress sup porting a measure that would exclude them from society Of course, all OOA-ers who art* straight men would probably have double difficulty excluding themselves on both counts Still, that's the price they should glad ly pav to fulfill their goals. Perhaps they could ms- that jus! because you're male and straight doesn't mean you’re n molester, that you shouldn't be officially scorned because of your sexual orientation Perhaps they could see that there is a reason to extend civil rights to someone based on choice the choice of religion The 'threat to children doesn't come from them hearing ideas their parents don't like Daniel and Kathleen Cann Casiato Eugene Stop slaughter On Nov H voters will have a chant i* to support Ballot Measure 1H. banning two of the most despicable and shameless prai tii es in the state of (frvgoti shoot - itiK hears at point-blank range after baiting them and killing cougars treed by hounds outfit ted with radio transmitters A fairly blatant and laughable misconception about Ballot Mea sure 1H is that it is about hunter's rights This isn't about hunter's rights be< ause killing animals in this fashion is not hunting 1 grew up in 1 astern Oregon where I had several friends who indulged in the sport They did it the real wav They actually had to have some skill. They applied them sely es I would like to think that hunters would bo the most fer vent activists supporting this tvil lot measure Su< fi people at least take some pride in the sport, or "art'' if you will. I art us dispense with the notion of legions of cougars and hears attac king and slaughtering peo ple in our cities From watching some of the dime-store propa ganda "No on IH" commercials, one might be left with |ust such an impression There are reasonable provi sions and exceptions in the bal lot measure for private landown ers and government agents to use methods to control nuisance (tears and cougars. Vote Yes on Ballot Measure 18 Gerry Rem pel Graduate, music Edit inhalers The writer who penned the editorial (ODE Oct. 27) support ing the Ferry Street Bridge has been obviously inhaling too much < arbon monoxide Tlu- contention that people won’t leave their cars at home and support mass transit is dead wrong The w riter need only look 110 miles up to Portland The city's 691 diesel buses and 2ti light rail vehicles take 100,000 (.ars off the streets each weekday That many cars, if placed end-to-end. would streti h for over 200 miles How did Portland's city plan ners i onx people out of their tars' First they put a tap on downtown parking spaces and then raised the price of parking to a level where it bet ame cheaper to use mass ’ i analt rather than drive As a result, Portland's down town lias a European atmosphere, abounding with pedestrians and fresh air. Two decades ago Portland was at a crossroads Its air was so pol luted with car exhaust that it failed federal clean air standards one out of every three days And yet streets and bridges needed expanding to keep up with traffic i ongestion So city planners decided to vigorously pursue a mass transit option fiy creating disincentives to driving and installing an efficient system of buses and light rail vehicles, tbev got people out of their cars Mass transit yynrks in Portland It i an work here too Vote no on Ballot Measure 20-23 Steve Knight Eugene No on 20-23 The (Incision voters make on the proposed Ferry Street Bridge expansion vs ill l>e a i ritii al one who h is likely to guide future city policy on alternative trails portation planning, land use. growth management and even i it i/.mi involvement. Perhaps the most significant dravvhat k to this project is its enormous size The now bridge would be approximately three times wider than the current bridge It would lie twit e the si/e of the Interstate 5 bridge across the Willamette river And the bridge only act mints for S10 mil lion of the Sf t million cost esti mate by the City of Fugene The total tust for the projet t is actually much higher if we add in the cost of lost property tax revenues and lost jobs due to ths lot at ion of business in the t or ridor There are also many hid den t.osts. such as the need to provide expensive new parking garages and road widening to ai i ominodate all the new i ars that the bridge will bring A mom conservative price for this projot t is $H<) to 5Hit) million The city has only identified $41 million in funding for this 1. leav mg the public won (Inring where the rest of the mon ey will come from If it comes from a bond issue, property tax es (ami rents) could go lip bv SIM) |M»r year for a typic nl home in Eugene This protect will not make Eugene a better place to live Instead, it will tend to in< reuse tar traffic throughout the city and itu reuse our dejxstdenc e on indi vidualized automobile trans portation rather than encourage a walkable. bikeable. livable city with a strong mass transit system. Here are a few more masons to start over on this project • Public input has b«>on largc> ly ignored • FSB expansion vv ill one mir age a sprawling, automobile dependent system of land use • Fixing traffic, in one area tends to shift the problem to oth er areas • Alternatives to nupor bridge construe tion were never serious l\ t onsidemd If tins bridge is built, people will look at it years from now and wonder bow we made such a colossal blunder Please vote for sensible transportation solutions bv voting NO on Ballot Measure 20-2.1 Eben Fodor President, Frtends of Eugene Judge yourself As you judgo n>«. pUsast* judgo mo as an individual Ins auso mv vmws .ms my own. and I do not want Idnrno going in sonioono olso's di root ion This lottor is in rtisponso to a "(.all for hulp" (OUKOt.t iti) If I btslinvt* in tho jairson of (ani and tho plat o of Moavon, thou by dofinition. Ihosti words ospross separation. The separation cm etuis distance by my will to place my ilesirvs above God's Bridging the gap between (.od and me msuis something beyond me. something outside myself. That something is the one from 1 leaven, Jesus ( hrist Christianity is about relation ships Th« first is with God through im total trust in and complete dependence in )osus Christ rho s«c:ond is n relation ship with others, relationships lived through tlu> first Christianity docs not begin with the idisi that everything is nil rigfit liecausc God loves you. Christianity begins with CimI Jesus Christ Christianity is about humani ty's waywardness from (kid and Cod rwu lung out to humanity vsitli the highest expression of love the son of Cod Christian ity does not flow from the t on si lent e of humanity to Cod, but from (an! s mind toward us To the wayward, (those involved in sexual practice yxith someone who is not a marriage partner of the opposite sex. those who gossip, those who malign the name of others, those wild slander the name of Cod, those who lie and cheat and those daughters of Adam and f ive) I say as a felloyy m waywardness who is striving to remain "uinvav yvard" and in Christ, when yve deny tlie yvav of Cod. yve Ihs tune an offense to the Lord of lilory Until yye recognize our way wardness, yve can never ms- ( axi s desire to make us "unwayyy artl (.od loves tis, not her ause yve at i epl ourselves or t.ike part 111 yvho yve are, hut tux ause Cod has reai lied out to wayward genera turns through the expression of love. 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