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Doctor acts 'childish'

After reading the story about the doctor on a hunger strike and camping on the hospital lawn, I know that if any member of my family should need emergency care while he is on call, we'll be requesting another doctor to attend us.

I think a few days without food would make him a little less than sharp. I also think he's been acting very childish and unprofessional.

Don't open foundry

Regarding Mr. Rose's idea for a foundry here in Craig, printed in the March 25 Saturday Morning Press, Mr. Rose needs to consider -- as do all Moffat County residents -- the effects a foundry has on an area. Not only are they ugly, the environmental impacts are also tremendous.

Mr. Rose, you are a former metal worker from Detroit by my understanding. You must know the results of this type of an endeavor. This would benefit you but not the community down the road.

Maybe Craig is just what it is. A beautiful, slow-paced, small community nestled in a sagebrush valley. Maybe it should stay that way. Maybe, just maybe, some of us like it as it is. Maybe we live here because that is how it is.

If you want big business, foundries, move back East where that's the way of life. Don't try to change us. We're happy as we are.

Unfair judgment

I'm a citizen of Moffat County. I've lived here most of my life, and I follow girls basketball very closely.

I read the paper (Friday), and I'm hoping someone can try to explain to me how a girl who didn't play the whole season makes Western Slope player of the year when you have a sophomore girl who averaged 14.8 points a game, was first team Western Slope all-tournament team, was second team on the Rocky Mountain News state team and was the No. 1 scorer on the team. Why isn't she the Western Slope player of the year?

I'm just wondering whether a parent or a coach or somebody can explain to me how that voting process works because it seems to be like a complete unfair judgment.

This girl worked really hard. I don't know whether it's because she's a sophomore and not an upperclassmen or how that works.

I just think it's a complete travesty that this sophomore did not get what she had coming to her as far as Western Slope player of the year. I think that needs to be changed somehow, someway. I don't know whether they can do it.

If there's anyone out there who can explain to me in the paper -- or however they want to -- a letter to the editor or any other way, how this girl got Western Slope player of the year when this sophomore scored 25 points in the Final Four game, averaged 14.8 points a game, was first team Western Slope, was on the all-tournament team and was also second team 4A for the state, I'd really appreciate it, because I really don't think it's fair.

Publish salaries

I agree that teachers' salaries should be published. That way, whoever thinks that teachers are being paid too much can see the real truth. Teachers don't make nearly enough money. I can't think of one teacher who I know who will tell you they are in it for the money.

Even if teachers were paid $60,000 to $70,000 a year, how much exactly would too much be for teachers to get paid? How much would be too much for the future leaders of this country to get a quality education?

The way I see it, teachers could never be paid enough. What kind of price are people willing to put on intelligence? I don't know any parent who sends his or her child to school hoping that the child will get a below-average education and ends up in a low-paying job after not getting a good education.

I also think that the people who think that law enforcement officers in Craig are being paid too much should ask themselves what they would be willing to be paid to go out each and every day knowing that they may not come home at the end of their shifts. What would you be willing to get paid to know that every day, you could go to work and get shot and killed? What would you be willing to get paid to spend 12 hours a day in the jail with people who have nothing better to do with their time then figure out how to hurt you? Why do we have law enforcement officers? Who are we going to call when the neighbor won't turn down his or her music or there is a dog barking or running loose? Never mind the dangers of society the police see every day.

Come on, people. We pay teachers and law enforcement officers for a reason. People in one of these professions are heroes in my book. They don't get paid nearly enough to do the jobs that they do, day in and day out. I think they need raises.