July 18, 2025 Editor, The News-Gazette: I agree with Marilyn Buerken’s objection in last week’s News-Gazette to grading Courthouse Square to accommodate two rows of steps. The shallow grade there now seems ideal - about one inch in 24. Just enough for good drainage, and not enough inclination to affect seating. The fewer steps on a property the safer, and the easier to shovel. Why not save almost all of that $1,000,000 projected for the redoing of this pocket park by leaving the grade as it is?
Also, leave the grass! Without the grass it won’t be much of a park. The present brick walkways are perfectly located. Mostly what is needed is to replace the overgrown forest trees there now with size appropriate trees.
ARVID CHRISTIANSEN Lexington It’s hard to know when dodging identification is part of the plan.
No public revelations about who was wrongly taken and what was wrongly done to them.
Federal prosecutors say that the attacker of Minnesota lawmakers and their families was impersonating a police officer on June 14 when he went to their homes, and that his vehicle resembled a police cruiser.
How are we to know when it is safe to open our doors, and where people are taken when they are led away without a warrant or identification?
The budget bill that our Congressman Ben Cline just helped pass provides our national security system with billions more of our tax dollars and nothing by way of accountability.
Please call his office at (202) 225-5431 and ask for a stop to these intimidating and dangerous practices.
At what point will we as a nation find ourselves with a secret police? DAPHNE RAZ Lexington
