INCREASE FINES

EDITOR: Thank heavens the county has found the funds to restore some
of the services curtailed at its libraries. Too bad it's at the
expense of Airlie Gardens, another valuable cultural resource.

One just has to read any newspaper's police blotter or watch an
episode of Judge Judy et al to see the huge amount of a community's
taxpayers' money that goes to respond to incidents involving drunkards,
deadbeats, domestic abusers, stabbers, shooters, robbers, drug
dealers, and the like, not to mention the cost of prosecuting,
defending, and incarcerating them.

If we would vote for stiffer penalties for this collection of
low-life, we might discourage such behavior and have money left over
to support our priceless educational and cultural resources.

Maryrose Miller,
Wallace