Evening in America

This is in regard to “Still thinking” in Wednesday’s “It’s your call.” My stomach is still hurting from the laughing I got from your little call-in about Ronald Reagan being a great president. Let’s start from the beginning: bad governor, worse president. This man did not bring the country together. He split us right down the middle and that’s where it all started — his massive, out-of-control spending with Star Wars and other projects such as that. This country still hasn’t recovered from the mess that Ronald Reagan put us into.

Enforcement

I’ve said it before, and now again. I think everyone is entitled to the fireworks all they want. But the law should be to stand at the edge of their property and shoot it — not sit in their yards and shoot them at our homes. Enforcing the laws on fireworks here in St. Joe is a joke. Do the police see and arrest those guilty? No way.

Timing is everything

Well, well, well. Green zones and saving money with grants from the federal government. The city wants to save money and save energy by changing the stoplights with LEDs. Why don’t you synchronize the lights on the Belt Highway so you can drive from the Andrew County line to Pear Street without stopping? Coordinate the lights so people can get out of the way and only have to stop once from one end of the town to the other. You’ll save significant money and energy in gas.

Don’t ask

I have no problem with people’s opinions, but the one who says hail to the chief about Clinton. Yeah, maybe what he did was wrong. But to say that Hillary knew it and the Democratic Party knew it is hooey.

In the dark

How come I have to pay a transit fee on my light bill? They’re not associated with the transportation anymore?

Finale

Anybody who dislikes the fireworks due to the people shooting them off since the 20th and generally waiting until everyone is in bed before they start blowing up garbage cans, call your legislature or your state senator and tell them to get the ban back like it used to be in the ’50s and ’60s where you couldn’t sell the fireworks until maybe a week before the Fourth. But this junk of having these fireworks shot off under your windows and over your houses because you’ve got to get up and go to work is ridiculous.

Editor’s note: Fireworks sales in Missouri are allowed to in-state residents starting on June 20.