New noise resolution best for Boardman residents

New noise resolution best for Boardman residents
EDITOR:
The June 7 letter criticizing the Boardman Township trustees for adopting a noise resolution was devoid of the following facts:
1. The resolution does not negatively effect the events mentioned by the writer;
2. There are two types of enforcement: a decibel denominated standard and a & quot;plainly audible & quot; standard. Enforcement of a decibel standard is difficult in the instance of car stereos, as the sound is transient and the source is mobile. After a careful review of precedents and challenges in other jurisdictions, the trustees chose the & quot;plainly audible & quot; standard for it has been held to be neither vague nor overbroad. It is also clearly understandable to those it is intended to regulate;
3. Compared to other jurisdictions around the country, the distance parameters and fines adopted by the Boardman trustees are quite lenient.
The writer of this letter seemed to be particularly fond of quotes so I will leave you with this one by Gen. Henry M. Robert: & quot;Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty. & quot;
KIM R. KOTHEIMER
Boardman
Athena honoree has done much for local health care
EDITOR:
I'm delighted that Dr. Gwendolyn Hughes of the much-valued Youngstown Community Health Center was this year's recipient of the Athena award.
One note on America's weirdly diabolical system of health care financing. A man earning $100,000 a year will likely bear almost none of his medical expenses. His down-market brother earning $12,000 annually will likely be responsible for all his medical costs.
American medical costs are socialized largely in direct relation to the incomes of its beneficiaries. The better your income, the less responsible you'll be for your health care expenses.
American health care is a broad preferment enjoyed by perhaps 200 million Americans, with one's insurance card acting as a sort of & quot;patient's license & quot; to be treated. The system is lousy. The consequences in loss of trust and confidence are appalling. For example, the Surgeon General's Report on Smoking was issued in the 1960s; nearly four decades elapsed, during much of which I was uninsured, before a physician for the first time broached the topic with me.
I've heard one vicious mock suggestion that uninsured folks be issued emblems for their clothing showing a caduceus over which a circle-and-slash is superimposed to publicly declare their segregation from organized scientific medicine.
Dr. Hughes, Dr. Dwinnells and all the cheery staff at the Youngstown Community Health Center rate kudos for keeping medicine honest.
JACK LABUSCH
Niles
Too many tax dollars wasted on prisons
I knew there was a reason that I did not vote for Gov. Bob Taft, and more taxes is one of them. If he needs money to run this state, then he should stop paying inmates millions of tax dollars to sweep and mop floors. There is a reason that they are in prison; there is no reason to give them my tax dollars.
I am retired from the Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, and while there I saw more waste of tax dollars. No one wants to do anything about it, from hiring more of the governor's buddies who were not qualified to do the job to giving inmates July 4 picnics costing more than $60,000 in taxpayer funds for each institution, along with giving inmates $5 each for Christmas. Now you want me to pay more taxes to smoke. What is next, a tax on sex and breathing ?
Taft is running for governor again and I will not vote for him or anyone like him that cannot do what is right for the citizens of Ohio.
GEORGE ADAMROVICH
Hubbard