Speak Out 4/23/15

Where do you

voice opinion?

Yes, there's an article in today's paper where the postal workers said the change will cause delays. There's no number in that area where we could voice our opinion. Never has been. The Postal Service has never ever given an address or gave a phone number where you could call an express your opinion on the mail being changed. I really do hate to say this, but two weeks ago St. Louis held the mail coming into Malden for three days: Thursday, Friday and Saturday, we got no mail delivery from them until the following Monday and then they dumped it all at one time. Now you tell me how people are going to get their mails and how we are going to pay them and everything else without . . . now that the service at Cape is going to be eliminated also. If it's this bad with the Cape facility being a stop-over, how bad is it gonna be when there is none there? I would like to have someone send me or put a notice in Speak Out about a phone number for the Postmaster General of the State of Missouri.

Another nail

in the coffin

Well, folks, if you live in Poplar Bluff when you look up you see the city council above you. When the city council looks up they see Mr. Kaplan's thumb on top of them. I guess it's just how it is. And, good luck with your 20 percent increase in electricity. Of course when electricity goes up, if they do all their accounting correctly, the water and sewer people use a lot of electricity, so your water and sewer bills will be going up also. Of course it takes a lot of money to light up the city streets. Take a lot of money to light up the Municipal Utility building and the police department and the coliseum and everything else. I don't know if the city is still doing free electricity for Poplar Bluff school district or not, but I think they did for like years.

But, anyway, maybe Poplar Bluff is just getting what it deserves. I just don't know.

Yes, I'm a city employee and I was just wondering how the taxpayers of our fair city will feel when they find out that Mr. Kaplan is now subsidizing the Rotary Club with over 300 city employees getting a paid day off to buy a $6 ticket for their annual spaghetti dinner. I think it's gonna cost a whole lot more to the taxpayers than the spaghetti dinner. Thank you. It's just another nail in the coffin.

Please reprint

conference list

I'd like to see the DAR rerun the chosen girls and boys that we named for the Ozark Foothills Conference. It was so small we couldn't find it. I was told it was in yesterday's paper but I had to search several times to find it because it was printed so small I had to use a magnifying glass to read it. The kids in our area work very hard for this honor and it's a shame it was treated with such little recognition. Thanks so much.