TO THE EDITOR:
Happy Holidays! My second annual Santa list and New Years resolutions. Dear Santa, can you convince the City of Big Lake to print a public notice bigger than a postage stamp when inviting public comment on road projects I.E. CR 43? Dear Santa, please send the city and county engineers/architects a book titled, ‘Road Building for Dummies’ CR43 SPECIAL EDITION. New Year resolution, the City of Big Lake, its agents, boards and commissions will no longer purchase land for development. The city can’t develop film. New Year resolution, Governor Waltz will stop lowering flags for every event imaginable and unimaginable. He has singlehandedly destroyed the symbolism of our flag at half mast. STOP. Dear Santa, can the city and MNDOT finally stop pointing fingers at each other and plow the sidewalks and street parking areas at corner of CR 25/10. Dear Santa, please give Gov.Waltz, Sen. Klobuchar, Sen. Smith and all Minnesota elected officials the guts to stand up to Rep. Omar on her pathetic statements...specifically her antisemitic stance against the State of Isreal. New Year resolution, citizens of Big Lake will place as much value on upcoming local election as they do our national election. Empty the swamp. Dear Santa, please change the name of the City Planner and Engineering Department to, the Departments of NO. It would be appropriate as that is the answer we usually get from them. Dear Santa, continue to support and protect our first responders.
George Quinn
Big Lake, MN
TO THE EDITOR:
An open letter to our elected officials at the federal and state level. We elected you to represent all of us; to solve problems and provide leadership. Instead, we got partisan fighting, refusal to work together, name calling and using problems to further your own political arguments. You adjourn leaving critical issues unsolved. You continue to get paid while threatening the livelihood of other government workers. Your behavior most certainly helps fuel the frustration nationally of rampant gun violence, bomb threats, racism and more. We have an employment and an immigration problem. A recent broadcast on NPR stated that semiconductor factories being built will not be able to find employees to work in them. Senior care centers, restaurants, hotels, and other industries cannot find employees. Surely, if you worked together you could come up with a creative way to bring together willing immigrants and employment opportunities. We have widespread challenges of homelessness, addiction, constant gun violence. It’s long past time to work together examining the root causes, thinking creatively to come up with ways to solve these problems.We hired you with our vote. If you cannot do your job, let’s find people who are up to the task!
Joyce LeClaire, PhD
Big Lake, MN
