Silver was a great administrator I would...

Silver was a great administrator

I would like to say that Ray Silver is an excellent administrator.

He’s always been very cooperative with me. I think he’s great and I

think it’s going to be a tremendous loss for the city, but, you know,

whatever the man wants to do.

JAMES BRIDGES

Huntington Beach

KOCE should not go to religious group

I think it is shameful to even consider the sale of KOCE to a

religious group. It is also shameful to realize how powerful and how

much money these religious businesses manage to accumulate. I thought

the idea of religion was to help the poor. How much money does

Trinity Broadcasting give to help the poor? Not much, I bet. Religion

has now become big business and as such, should be taxed accordingly.

Think of the money they could make. The country is being run by

right-wing, born-again religious fanatics. Look where that has got

us. On no account let KOCE be sold to any of these religious groups.

Sell the station to KCET. We need the local news. Keep religion out

of it or tax them.

MAUREEN SHRUBSOLE

Huntington Beach

Commission should have waited to vote

The Planning Commission should have waited to have a full

complement of officers to study the plans and come to a conclusion.

Their rush says there must be business interests pushing for an early

resolution. That stinks!

PAT McCULLY

Huntington Beach

Pacific City no more toxic than any other

I address these comments to the 30 residents who are probably

donning gas masks as I write this. No safety steps out of the

ordinary need be taken except those I have listed below. You people

just want to delay the Pacific City project as long as it takes the

developer to go broke, admit it.

Here’s a headline for you: It won’t happen. This developer has

enough money to buy all your houses and turn them into low-income

rentals. If you folks want to do something about the over-development

of the city, go to the council meetings and complain to the “cash

register heads” you helped elect.

Where were you people when the Hilton was under development? And

how about that great white elephant next door? What a short memory

you have! The great mounds of earth piled up for almost a year didn’t

contain anything toxic and didn’t spread to the four corners of

Huntington Beach in the wind, did they?

I get it ... you must be concerned about the health of your

neighbors. Where were you when the Seacliff developments were going

full tilt? And what about the health of the people living on top of

their allowable parts per million toxic soil? As long as the city

keeps spending money like a drunken sailor, the city fathers and

mothers (they know who they are) will entertain any idea that can be

milked like the other cash cows they approved over the years.

Safety tip No. 1: Know your enemy.

Safety tip No. 2: Know who you elect.

Safety tip No. 3: Always wear your gas mask.

MICHAEL HESSLEY

Huntington Beach

Council should vote no on desal plant

In response to a letter to the editor, “Desalination would benefit

area” (Mailbag Oct. 2.) In what way? The writer referred to the

success of a desalination plant in the Virgin Islands. I went on

Internet and found facts about the plant there. “ It showed this

plant is a very small desalination plant compared to the proposed

Poseidon plant for the Huntington Beach location. The water being

used here is brought into the AES plant and taken by Poseidon. Then

Poseidon returns the effluent brine back to AES where it is returned

to the ocean. Virgin Island’s report says the disposal of the

effluent brine should be carefully considered as this can have

adverse effects on sea life. It is my hope that the City Council

which has already opposed the Planning Commission’s vote to approve

the Environmental Impact Report for Poseidon will vote no on Poseidon

when the project come before it.

EILEEN MURPHY

Huntington Beach