Lakeville Journal Opinion/Viewpoint

Let’s deal with nonsense first. It is true you can get more protein from a field of corn or soy than you can get from cattle on the same grass or hay field in terms of productivity. True, but only for year 1. Year 2 they are the same.

In 1914, a perceptive critic for the Chicago Defender wrote, “Every time I see Mr. Bert Williams, the ‘distinguished colored comedian’, I wonder if he is not the patient repository of a secret sadness... Sorrow concealed, ‘like an oven stopped’, must burn his heart to cinders.”

Now that is writing.  Journalists beware and aware.

“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money. . .”

                — Attributed to the late Senator Everett Dirksen

If you don’t build it, they can’t come

It’s obvious that some objectors to affordable housing projects in Lakeville and Falls Village are using false claims and stalling tactics to delay, downsize or relocate these projects entirely.

100 years ago — April 1921

A truck load of men have been on Mt. Riga to safeguard that part of the mountain against the fire that has been raging on the New York State side of the range.

When is the last time you found yourself thinking about something else besides the road and the vehicles and possible obstacles around you while you were driving? After all, with the many ways COVID-19 has changed our lives in the past year, the distractions of everyday life have increased exponentially.