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Driving on eggshells!

To The Editor:

Good morning. Here's a tip of the day for your readers:

With the high gas prices these days, use this tip to save gas; try it sometime, it works!

For best gas millage drive as if you had an egg between your foot and the accelerator peddle and you don't want to break it.

Have a great day.

V. Comeau,

Richibucto

(Via Canadaeast.com)

Women were insulted

To The Editor:

We all have pros and cons (pardon the political pun) about city council. If we vote today, we have the right to express them.

I agree with Julie McSorley's letter of May 8: "Women who win election will have earned it." She is rebutting an annoying column by Boyd Anderson, "Municipal elections: Who's in? Who's out?" Where is Anderson's research proving women will likely vote for women? I suspect it's in his head.

I also agree with Ms. McSorley when she says Anderson seems to feel elected women are not elected on merit. If Anderson is really enough of a chauvinist to believe that, he calls into question the integrity of all women.

"All women" includes his mother, grandmother, etc. I think some of us guys need to think about that when some of us say we are smarter than women.

We all need to vote: women, men, newly eligible voters, and even Anderson.

Boyd, I have to tell you this:

The old ways are just that, OLD.

Should you run in a local election, I'll keep that in mind.

Joe Woodford,

Moncton

(Via e-mail)

Government not listening

To The Editor:

During the last provincial election, people in the Moncton Crescent Riding spoke out for a New North End School and lower property taxes. The Atlantic Baptist University, unlike other Universities, experienced huge growth and needed expansion.

As a former government, we had budgeted funds so that the new school would be built and open for September 2009. The Liberal government took the $700,000 (our initial installment) from the school project and now we are two years behind on the school.

I brought in two motions to cap our property assessments at three per cent, and the government defeated them.

On the ABU side, the new government excluded their students from the $2,000 tuition grant, so now ABU students are at a monetary disadvantage.

The new government raised personal income taxes, raised the small business tax, did not give back the HST, cut the Environmental Trust Fund, cut silviculture and gave $60 million to a financial institution.

Politicians should be made to keep their word. If you promise an HST rebate, do it; if you promise no increased taxes, honour your word. The average family is now paying $1,100 more per year with increased property taxes, no HST rebate, increased power bills and personal income taxes. In a nutshell, this government has hurt Moncton Crescent.

But wait, we just read that a new casino is coming here, with absolutely no public consultation. The new Moncton Wesleyan Church already has a beautiful 2,000 seat auditorium and banquet space for conventions. The racino in P.E.I. has cost Islanders over $4 million during the last two years and the casino in Halifax is laying off workers. In 22 years representing people in this area, no one has asked for a casino, but many have pleaded for help with addictions.

There was no public consultation on the uranium mining issue with 19,000 new claims. The Liberal government voted against two motions for a moratorium, introduced by Claude Williams and myself. I asked the Minister of Environment a year ago to keep the exploration out of the Turtle Creek watershead, as did City Council. His response: I was fear-mongering. Nor has there been any public consultation on Sunday hunting.

On uranium, the capacity crowd at the Capitol Theatre chose health over wealth, with some already losing their water but no money coming from mining companies to reimburse.

People should also have been given the choice on the Casino: monetary versus social costs, with present waiting times for some addictions at over a year.

We have enjoyed a wonderful quality of life in Moncton, we have been "different" from other areas, but now I feel we may just be the same as we "be. . . In this place."

John Betts,

MLA,

Moncton Crescent