Speak Out 5/3/15

Schools, ads

Kudos to Bob Miller's opinion piece in Sunday's paper about Jackson exploiting the kids by using them as advertisement. The restaurant gets, like you said, far more advertisement with this. And I think it's just a cheap exploitation of kids. The school district is here to educate them, not to plaster them on social media and exploit them for advertisement. I don't care how much money they're donating.

Blunt truth

"Noranda gets rate cut: other AmerenUE customers get rate increase." Thank you for publishing such a blunt headline, warning other Missouri AmerenUE consumers that this is the kind of thing that happens when you aren't organized for lobbying the state legislature and big-time behemoths like Noranda are. Maybe that will motivate someone to become the Ralph Nader of Missouri when it comes to taking on the likes of Noranda.

Fundraising, taxes

Public schools that team up with private concerns and use students to help promote, say, burgers and fries, deserve to be publicly denounced. On the other hand, many of those who engage in such shaming are the first ones to scream, "No new taxes!" when it comes to a school tax increase, thus leading said schools to turn to private business to attempt to raise much needed funds.