I?m supporting Richard McKim for school board
The election for school board position 4 is upon us.? There are several candidates. I believe Richard McKim is the most outstanding candidate and deserves my vote and yours. Richard is highly qualified and comes from a family line of school board members.? Please mark your ballot for Richard McKim.
Virginia Kostol
Baker City
Two votes for Cassidy, McKim for school board
Kevin Cassidy and Richard McKim will get our votes for Baker School District 5J board of directors.
They each have a child in the Baker schools. They are very concerned with the quality of education for our students. They have no hidden agendas. We are very pleased that they will devote their time and energy to improve and enrich the education of our young people.
John and Frances Burgess
Baker City
U.S. action on climate change is essential
On April 10 the idea that ?If the U.S. shows leadership (on climate change) other nations will follow? was scoffed at because the majority of the poor world will not be able to act and it is expensive. Apparently since big poor nations can?t act, we should dismiss the issue too. The idea that the United States should not spend money on solving a global issue we created is terribly myopic.
I offer one reason why U.S. leadership can make a difference. Publicly funded American research provides affordable and often life-saving tools the entire world enjoys routinely. In fact, publicly funded research and engineering projects are a hallmark of American prosperity. Examples include the Panama Canal, modern hydroelectric and nuclear electricity, the space program, the Internet, and the human genome project. These assets paid for by the American taxpayer, continue to pay dividends today the world over. Even the extraction of the very oil that causes climate change is subsidized!?
Public funding for renewable energy is an essential investment that already offers exportable technology poorer nations cannot replicate. Technological solutions researched by America will become cheaper and more enticing once the legwork has been done. We are still known as an innovation economy. There are riches to be made and a planet to be saved in this endeavor. In this ever-changing society, I find it odd that the technologies that threaten our long-term prosperity are the same technologies that we hold so dear.
When ecosystems can no longer provide the necessary water and air filtration, food and natural resources we are accustomed to, we will see economic collapse. I urge the reader to trust the science which has long been in. Energy and emission solutions are a responsibility that comes with the privilege to exhaust an entire planet?s worth of cheap energy in 200 years. This is not a political issue, but one of equity. We are right to be concerned about our children and grandchildren. But their economic problems will stem from ecological and environmental deficits, not simply monetary ones.
Eric Layton
Baker City
Source: http://www.bakercityherald.com/Letters/Letters-to-the-Editor-for-April-26-2013
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