Gazette makes Community better
Dear Editor:
Please accept my congratulations as you celebrate the 26th year of your publication, the Gazette.
Your community is better for the service you provide it. Bringing a publication such as yours is done only by overcoming great challenges--and by possessing a great commitment to the mission.
Because of your commitment, your community maintains its heritage and, therefore, its identity. The value of your service simply cannot be estimated except to describe it as immense and vital.
In serving your audience you strengthen our entire community. I honor your service and wish you all the best for a long and productive future.
Sincerely,
Maria Pappas
Cook County Treasurer
Incinerator plants worse
Dear Editor:
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and the Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago (RHAMC) brought suit against the Fisk and Crawford coal power plants operating on the Southwest Side by suing the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (Gazette, June 6).
Granted, the plants emit mercury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and soot, now at much reduced levels than ever because of expensive anti-pollution equipment installed, but Madigan and RHAMC failed to take similar action against the garbage incinerator plants, which are thousands of times worse, releasing even more toxic emissions into our environment.
The number of deaths and asthma attacks are worse from the incinerator plants than from the power plants. Where are our priorities?
Sam Watson
