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TO THE EDITOR
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ested in making their paper readable — what
other point is there in a newspaper if people
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David Gibbs
Eugene
WHERE ARE UNIONS?
In his “Post-PERS” column (5/15), Tony
Corcoran tells us its “time to move on.” I am
sure Tony would like to leave this behind but
for many of us directly affected by this trav-
esty it’s much harder. How can I move on
Tony, when my monthly pension check was
just cut by 28 percent for the rest of my life?
How can we move on when one of the best
pension systems in the country was just dev-
astated by our friends in Salem? It’s hard to
move on when you, a longtime friend of the
working people, side with Ted “Opportunist”
Kulongoski. Would you have taken a lead on
this for Kevin Mannix if he would have won
last November, or would you have fought
back like you always did for us?
It’s ironic that the week after our pensions
were slashed, over one million public em-
ployees in France walked off their jobs to
protest their “pension reform.” French unions
called for a general strike while Oregon
teachers, firemen, policemen, etc., quietly ac-
quiesced and others lined up to retire before
“reforms” went into effect. Where are our
unions? Where are our labor leaders leading a
fight-back movement? I guess they are all up
in Salem making deals, hoping for some
judge to overturn this mess.
And by the way, Tony, good luck in get-
ting the Republicans in Salem to return a
favor and support a real tax reform. If you be-
lieve that, you probably also believe in lep-
rechauns.
Pete Mandrapa
Eugene
CASINO BENEFITS
It’s interesting that at a time when Oregon
is in a financial crisis that some Oregonians
do not want to see more economic develop-
ment. The casino proposed by the
Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower
Umpqua and Siuslaw will bring jobs and at-
tract more tourism to Lane County and the
Florence coast area. And, like all tribes in
Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of the Coos,
Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw will form a
compact with the governor to give the state of
Oregon a good percentage of the profits, as
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Twice in Alan
Pittman’s May 22
article, “Ode to
Node,” real estate
investors whined
that democrati-
cally determined
changes in land
use regulations
unfairly take away their property rights. This
illogic is worthy of inclusion in Tom
Tomorrow’s (5/22) “The Republican Matrix”
cartoon “where logic holds no sway … where
up is down and black is white.”
I am sick of hearing greedy real estate in-
vestors demand to be compensated for land use
changes that lower the value of their property.
Investors take this risk because they often
make huge profits by getting property rezoned
for
higher
density
development.
Compensation for losses would only be fair if
investors were also willing to pay taxpayers for
land use changes that increase property values.
The state Legislature almost passed a spe-
cial bill, which was promoted by the opinion-
ated Lars Larson radio show, to permit a 90-
year-old woman to profit from developing
her land. I am sorry that her long-term invest-
ment turned out poorly, but I don’t see the
state Legislature offering to bail out other
types of losing investments made by widows
and orphans.
Hopefully, the nodal development con-
cept will prove more durable than the 1970s
downtown mall idea.
Thomas Kraemer
Corvallis
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much as 10 percent or more of the gross earn-
ings from the casino to education and roads.
To me it only seems sensible to allow this
tribe to develop the casino to help the area re-
cover from deficits in education and road re-
pair monies and create jobs and increase
tourism dollars to our county.
Like many other people, I was against
other casinos being built in Oregon because I
thought there would be an impact on the moral
fiber of the local people. However the casino
at Grand Ronde, Spirit Mountain, annually
gives away community development grants,
funds local schools in a rural, depressed region
and helps fix the rural highways from the coast
to the valley. While a casino is not a cure-all,
the increased development does help the area
around Grand Ronde. I can see this happening
for Lane County, as well.
David Lewis
Eugene
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