OPINION

Feedback - Feb. 25

Staff reports
The Herald-Mail

Response to Mr. Eavey:

"Just how does Mr. Eavey suggest we find, and keep sociopaths off the street? Can he walk down the street and point them out? Where would he put them? The detention center is not equipped to house them."

— Phyllis Bradley, Hagerstown 

My snow angel Jim:

"Here it is, another snowy year, and my snow angel, Jim, cleaned my driveway off, year after year. He not only cleans my driveway, he goes and cleans for other neighbors. Jim Pauley, you really are my snow angel, and you have a big heart. I can't thank you enough. I offered to pay him, but he doesn't want any money. Jim, you sure do have a very, very big heart. Oh, how I appreciate you, and many, many, many, many thanks, and God bless you."

— Dot Delauter, South Pointe

Thanks to snow angels:

"Thank God for snow angels: Randy Briggs, Dean White and Jerry Harne. They have kept our driveways clear of snow all winter. Don't know what we'd do without them. God bless you."

— Judy Barnhart and Ellen Vessa, Smithsburg 

Insurance companies win:

"It looks like the insurance companies sure got one over on President Obama, in the Affordable Care Act. Who's still making all the money now? There seems to be a new insurance company every week, trying to get in on the action."

— Don Degraw, Hagerstown

Thanks again, snow angels:

"It is so good to live where neighbors care about one another. Many thanks to our snow angels at South Pointe: Hez and Judy Foster, Bob and Sandy Violet, and Bert Brittain. Thanks again."

— Earl Hill, Hagerstown

About war on women:

"Well, Laura, you didn't give any examples, yet again, of how Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin sought the spotlight, and apparently are not truthful. What's your examples, Laura, that they're not truthful? Got one? I don't think you do. And Burr Loomis: Thank you, Burr Loomis, for proving my point, that the left is waging a war on women."

— Shawn Moore, Chambersburg, Pa.

About renewable energy:

"I'm reading Saturday morning's paper, Feb. 21, on page A2, 'Tougher renewable energy target could raise utility bills.' Well, this stuff about this renewable energy and stuff like that, as far as these Democrats in Maryland, I hope the Republicans put them in a seat someplace, because this Bill Frick and this guy from the renewable — Mike Tidwell, director of Chesapeake Climate Action Network, that's the trouble with this country now, these environmental people, and look at the weather now. The EPA and the federal government and all these politicians down here about this renewable energy stuff, they want to raise the cost so people's electricity bills go sky high. People can't pay."

— Gary Benner, Hagerstown

Put Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame:

"In reference to the article on Pete Rose, I agree. Pete Rose didn't do anything any worse than these other ball players. Baseball fans should boycott the games until they make Pete Rose eligible for the Hall of Fame. He's not as near as unsportsmanlike as many of those that use drugs. He accomplished what he did on his own. I dearly love baseball, and I would give baseball up, quit watching it, to support Pete Rose, and I never miss a game on TV — Orioles, of course. And my granddaughter loves to go to Camden Yards."

— Mary Kline, Clear Spring 

About school starting after Labor Day:

"I was just reading in The Herald-Mail on Feb. 20, about school starting after Labor Day. If this happens, why wouldn't the board of education take away some of these days in a too-long spring break, to make up for school starting later? I think the reason given for having that long of a spring break was because many people travel. Well, what does the board of ed think they do on the day before Thanksgiving, that they're considering taking away? That's the busiest travel day of the year. So we do not need to have that long of a spring break, so I would say take some of those days."

— Shelly Sinclair, Hagerstown

About going to school in the cold:

"This is 'Too cold to attend school,' about your grandchildren and great-grandchildren have to go to school in minus-30-degree temperatures. When I went to school in the '60s and '70s, they never canceled school. I would walk two and three miles to get to the bus stop, in 2 to 3 feet of drifting snow, with winds 30, 40 mph. Why are your children so fragile? ... Sad to say, they should go to school no matter what the temperature is."

— Paul Young, Hagerstown