SOUND OFF: 07/10/2014

People who liight firecrackers in a neighborhood are awfully inconsiderate. You have fun making that loud noise and you don’t care that you bother a lot of neighbors. You scare little kids. You wake up babies. You make many people angry, raise the blood pressure of older people and keep people from sleeping who go to work early. You put wounded war veterans through agony listening to war sounds for two or more hours. You upset a lot of people around you and you don’t care.

Bob Marshall,

Waterford Township

Maybe the car manufacturers would quit having so many problems with their parts if they would start buying parts made in the United States instead of 80 percent of parts being made in foreign countries.



I live in Madison Heights. They are doing our streets, the sidewalks, the water and the gas. They are taking a lot of the trees that are on our boulevard. I hope this fall they are going to offer these people trees to replace the ones we are losing. Our street looks awful without our trees. Ride through Royal Oak and see how beautiful their streets are. They all have trees. Are they going to do something about our trees on our street? Let us know.


Madison Heights

Gov. Snyder and the state Department of Education imposed extended year school, for urban schools, including Pontiac. This extended year is not compulsory, so it is not well attended. Another poor use of tax dollars.

Beatrice Wright,