Editor:
Friends, neighbors and thinking Republicans, the shenanigans afoot in D.C. make it clear we in our rural locale must step up to cover the services we value.
To that end, I have sent a check to KEET in an amount ten times my highest hourly wage or three times what I usually send them annually. This won’t be enough to sustain them, so I ask others to step up with me. If you have the audacity to charge $300 an hour, $3,000 would be a good amount, if your wage is $15 an hour, send $150, etc. Do the very best you can until sanity is returned to governance.
Let’s be sure our choices during these frightening few years to come are such that we can see and assure a sustainable future for ourselves, our neighbors, our nation, and our planet. Rather than spend on unnecessary travel and wasteful leisure, let’s buckle down and look after the things that truly matter.
Let’s take responsibility for looking after our neighborhoods and our region. The madness of greed and bigotry mustn’t be allowed to become the norm.
P. Givins, Arcata
This article appears in Global Solidarity at the Mouth of the Klamath.