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Council should take hard look at Wal-Mart

It is amazing to read about the second Wal-Mart store on Yelm Highway.

After reading the comments that Lacey city planners made in The Olympian, you can kiss goodbye any chance of mitigating or even eliminating the construction of this behemoth store and its incredible impacts on the quality of life in those residential areas.

What are the Lacey planners thinking -- it's OK to vary from the plan because it's Wal-Mart? That somehow Wal-Mart looking like a "village" store will have less of a negative effect on the traffic in that area?

Have we become so greedy and needy for tax dollars that we are willing to allow this to happen not once, but twice?

As a former city council member in another jurisdiction, I depended on the staff to provide information, not to make policy. It is still possible for the Lacey City Council to take a hard look at the impacts of this proposal.

Look at the people whose lives will be impacted daily, not just the bottom line of the city's operating budget.

Ruth Snyder, Olympia

Vandals also struck at Salvation Army

Two weeks ago, I attended a wedding at the new Salvation Army church.

The church is lovely and the captains and parishioners are proud of it.

Having a Salvation Army background, I've recently attended some of the churches in California and there is no comparison.

Naturally, I was sick at heart when I passed by the building a few days later and saw tagging on the brick exterior.

So it's not only our nice park that was attacked.

Alyce Barrick, Olympia

Bush administration lacks moral integrity

Can any of the Bush supporters out there explain to me what this Office of Strategic Influence stuff is all about?

I can't understand why the Bush Administration would feel the need to issue false news items to the foreign press. Could it be that this current administration lacks moral integrity?

Maybe Dick Cheney could prove me wrong by releasing all of the documents from the energy policy meetings held last year that Enron played such a major role in.

If he were an honest man, with moral integrity, he would have nothing to hide. It appears as if the Bush administration needs someone in there with some real moral integrity.

Maybe somebody like Tim Eyman. Oh wait, he's a liar too. Oh, well.

Patrick Menendez, Olympia

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