Whatever YSU wants ...

Whatever YSU wants ...

EDITOR:

Now YSU used eminent domain against Mr. Grenga who owns a business and has employees working for him to get land for a street that the college does not need. They have a street to the college, Wick Avenue.

This is just another case of YSU getting whatever it wants from the city of Youngstown.

Instead of spending $34.3 million on a business school and stealing someone’s business, they should give it to the city to fix the streets in this town. I have seen better dirt roads.

WILLIAM E. REEDS

Boardman

Helping Detroit makes sense

EDITOR:

We certainly have a double standard in this country when we can bail out our large banks and financial corporations, but Congress wouldn’t grant automakers GM, Ford and Chrysler a bridge loan (and it is a loan, not a give-away, as with the financial industry).

Some Americans are opposed to helping the automakers. Who are these people? We have high unemployment and job loss happening every day in all sectors. We don’t need a meltdown of our manufacturing base. If these companies were to fail, the ripple down effect would be catastrophic for all Americans, not only for the auto industry as we now know it.

All of the active and retired steelworkers know what job loss is and what it meant to the Rust Belt states. The effects of a shutdown by auto corporations would put a strain on our health care system, pension plans, PBGC and the local economy, where jobs are at a premium.

The Alliance for American Manufacturing Action Group is currently doing a campaign to save our manufacturing base, with the hope that this new administration, the House and the Senate would address the current trade laws affecting our economy. The work force in this country can compete on a level playing field and keep our people employed.

HANK SADINSKI

Youngstown

Deer must be managed

EDITOR:

What comes to your mind when you think of deer? Are they recreational, a nuisance, or simply something that lives in the woods?

Many people don’t realize the effects deer have on our everyday lives. Deer populations are increasing and deer management is an issue. There is great controversy over deer management practices. Some people and organizations believe deer hunting, especially with a bow and arrow, is inhumane. Their solutions, such as birth control or euthanizing them, are often times impractical. No matter how it is accomplished, deer populations must be managed because we removed cougars and wolves, natural predators, from the forests of Ohio and Pennsylvania and now we have the responsibility to remove some of the deer.

If we let deer run free with no management they can completely destroy a forest ecosystem by eating the entire understory and leaving only the plants they do not like. This leads to monocultures on the forest floor and this ultimately changes the composition of the forest of the future. When a forest’s understory is diminished, other animals such as rabbits and ground birds have no habitat. In order for hunters to continue to hunt small animals they must hunt the larger ones.

By managing the deer they are enabling future hunting, thus completing the food chain we had formerly broken. Fewer deer in the forest means less damage to the forest composition, farmers crops and individual gardens.

I am not a hunter, but hunting seems to be the best way to keep the population down at this time.

SARAH C. WILHELM

Meadville, Pa.