The PDN should exercise more discretion when choosing which articles to print in the same edition.
With the two articles published in the Sunday edition the taxpayers of this state and Clallam County might come to the conclusion that their tax dollars are not being properly spent.
The first article about the Morse Creek funding approval makes me wonder if the $3.6 million couldn’t have been saved or spent on a project more deserving.
If you travel this section of U.S. Highway 101 while traffic is whizzing by, you might think that if drivers would simply abide by the 45-mph speed limit. The road itself is not dangerous.
With a bit of enforcement or a radar camera strategically placed I bet the cost could have been a lot less than $3.6 million.
The second article about the state trooper being on administrative leave for over seven months while he collects $7,000 per month makes me think: What crime couldn’t be investigated and resolved in seven months?
So if we taxpayers put two and two together we have $5 million being spent on a highway project that could be resolved with some good old-fashioned traffic enforcement while a state trooper is home collecting $7,000 per month for doing nothing.
Hell of a plan.
John Earhart,
Sequim