MAILBAG - Sept. 19, 2000

Karen McGlinn says that people want the services of the day laborers,

but don’t want them visible (“Ruling could alter day laborer law,” Sept.

16).

The job center gives people looking for services, as well as people

willing to provide the labor services, a place to connect instead of

congregating on street corners or parking lots and disrupting the flow of

traffic soliciting work.

The day workers are certainly visible at the job center and anyone

needing a day laborer certainly knows where to go to find them. No one

has to drive around the city looking for a day laborer, or pull over to

the curb to try to negotiate for services, thus impeding the flow of

traffic.

Does McGlinn remember what it was like before the job center? Would

she be happier if there were 25 to 30 people congregated on the corner of

the street where she lives, waiting to find work?

SUSAN SPIEGELMAN

Fountain Valley

Let the city clean house

Connie Paine is correct in her rebuttal (“Panther Palace neighbors

have rights, too,” Sept. 10). I would go even further. My addition may be

a little off, but at $6,000 a week, that adds up to $24,000 a month.

Now that put us in the area of more than a quarter of a million

dollars a year. How do they manage their taxes? Where is the IRS?

Health and welfare in this city has done nothing to see that the

people are medically “safe.” Our quality of life is definitely in

jeopardy. Our health is in jeopardy, and our children are not safe.

We don’t know the people who come here to “party down.” How do we know

that they are of decent character? It is a big, bad world out there, and

it is right here in our neighborhood. Let the city clean house. After 20

years, it’s about time.

JANICE DAVIDSON

Costa Mesa

Suggestions for hotel sites

If the best use of public land in Newport Beach is for new luxury

resort hotels (i.e., the Dunes and the Marinapark site), I suggest we

consider all possibilities.

How about Beacon Bay or the Balboa Bay Club sites?

TOM STEFL

Corona del Mar