Published: June 30, 2009 07:10 am      

Letters to the Editor: 06/30/2009

Purloined petunias

I live on Carver Street and between 2:45 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. June 22, a Monday, someone walked past my house and noticed my hanging planter, filled with beautiful magenta (hot pink) petunias and decided they wanted them more than I did.

So they walked up my driveway and took them.

So I decided I would try to locate the posy pilferer. I did contact the Traverse City Police Department, and they are on the lookout for the flower felon, but I was hoping that I could get some help from concerned flower lovers (after all, it could have been your flowers and then how would you feel?).

Anyway, if you happened to have noticed anyone in the area carrying the purloined posies, or if you noticed someone miraculously coming into possession of a tan hanging planter filled with magenta petunias, please contact officer Smith at the City Police Department.

Or if you happen to be the petunia perpetrator, if they should suddenly reappear on my porch I will drop the matter there.

Penny Larcom
Traverse City

Parties dominate

I am an independent voter and find certain "genuine folks" from various party affiliations worthy of the public trust. Frankly, it is becoming patently clearer to me and many other "average Americans," that the rancor, unpretentious dislike and divisiveness of "party politics" is undermining the foundations and principles of that which is essentially American; the very essence of the "good old U.S.A."

The failure to legislate independently, act with courage and assume personal responsibility are significant factors that contributed to our present economic collapse.

Unfortunately, if one endeavors to enter into public service he or she is forced to face the necessity of joining with either "Republican" or "Democrat" stamped on their forehead. This also requires certain "pay-backs," albeit in the guise of loyalty. Am I seeing loyalty to America?

The "new" political arrivals on the Washington scene must sit back, wait in line and watch the self-serving "committee chairman" and political "power brokers" mandate their power, systematically assert, secure and promote their party's future. All at the expense of the American public.

America is still the greatest country in the world. The threat to our survival comes from within as well as without.

John D. Stewart
Gaylord