Letters to the editor for Wednesday, Sept. 26

Updated: September 25, 2007 - 5:42 PM

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BOARD'S PR CAMPAIGN

It won't help

So now the Hennepin County Board needs a public-relations firm to help us feel its pain in acquiring the land for the ballpark (Star Tribune, Sept. 25)?

Maybe if taxpayers weren't so disgusted by the way this ballpark was shoved down our throats in the first place, we wouldn't have so much sympathy for the landowners who are getting hustled.

MARY ANN CROLLEY, MINNEAPOLIS

PHOTO COP

Crime-fighting tool

How can a program such as Minneapolis' "photo cop" be all that bad when, during a short period of time, it captured 25,000 vehicles running red lights, a deliberate act of violating established traffic laws?

Without "photo cop," we will soon have a new batch of 25,000 drivers running red lights whose actions will not be recorded. Most of them will be owners of the vehicles, not permitted drivers or drivers of stolen vehicles.

Is this the kind of driver that the courts really want on Minneapolis streets?

JAMES D. LYNN, BURNSVILLE

COLEMAN'S ATTACK AD

Free-speech opponent

I would like to personally thank Sen. Norm Coleman for pointing out in his full-page ad on Tuesday that exercising freedom of speech is a ridiculous idea.

In addition, it is comforting to know that with his recent Senate vote he was willing to employ totalitarian means to stifle a constitutionally declared freedom of Minnesotans and Americans everywhere.

Perhaps it is time for Mr. Coleman to "move on."

JOEL JACKSON, ST. PETER, MINN.

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