Opinion

Dear editor, I have lived in Comox since September 2010, and feel I have come to paradise.

Dear editor, If the HST were such a "good thing," saving money, etc., then why did the federal government need to offer a $1.6-billion "incentive" (read bribe) to the provinces to create it?

The Comox Valley Book Friends recently held their annual fundraising book sale. Thanks to the generous donations of material, there was something for each of the over 1,500 people who attended.

Dear editor, The fake bus tour of homeless shelters in other communities has been staged.

Dear editor, Voting against the long-needed improvements to our recreation facilities at the Lewis Centre, Coun. Murray Presley says that the City shouldn't be offering public services that the private sector can profitably supply. (Record, July 6).

Dear editor, For several months I have been watching the controversy in the news about the location selected by the CVRD for the proposed homeless facility on Cliffe Avenue in downtown Courtenay.

Dear editor, Thank you for the July 7 editorial and comment piece about the Raven Coal Project.

Dear editor, Last Wednesday鈥檚 editorial provides a refreshing contrast to some of the poor reasoning, failed humour and undisguised impoliteness that have recently entered the local press with regard to the HST referendum.

Dear editor, I do not understand the negative knee-jerk response to a suggestion that an off-leash dog park be designated in Comox.

Dear editor, Weighed down by a $14-trillion debt, the United States is now facing the prospect of economic collapse. And yet none of its leaders has the courage to suggest even a modest tax increase to alleviate the situation.