Letters

To the editor:
It started with a late night phone call, the kind that gives you a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach. On the other end of the line was a frantic voice telling me my brother-in-law, James, had been killed by a gunshot.
To have a family member taken away in this heinous manner is the kind of thing that can rip a family apart.

To the editor:

During my unsuccessful campaign (only 406 votes short!) for Property Valuation Administrator, in late 2009 I began an earnest compilation of various documents from the office of Ron Winters, PVA.
Originally, my goal was to learn more about the operations of that office so I would be prepared for campaign questions.

To the editor:
On February 1, 2009, my step-son was killed in La Grange. Here it is July 28, 2011 and this case has never come to trial. My wife and I have been to court in La Grange over 40 times in the past two and a half years.
It seems that once the case was to come to trial the judge, Karen Conrad, declared it a mistrial and laid it over until March 2012.

To the editor:
When I was a child and stayed at my grandmother’s every Saturday morning, a big blue school bus would park on the street.
It was owned by a gentleman we children knew only as Mr. Charlie, his actual last name escapes me after all these years. He’d open the school bus doors and drop a little stairstep out.