To the editor: Taxpayers own public space
Allowing corporations to spread their name everywhere doesn’t improve Toledo.
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 04:00:00 GMT
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I agree SeaGate Centre is dated and needs renovation, but at what cost? Selling out to another corporate egotist wanting their brand on every civic space?
It’s our baseball stadium, not Fifth Third Bank’s. It’s our arena, not Huntington Bank’s. It’s our convention center, not ProMedica’s.
Which poor schmuck taxpayer sitting in a ProMedica ER or getting a CAT scan or chemo or PT is going to pay for this give-away to ProMedica? We all pay increasing health-care costs while paying taxes for publicly owned facilities now branded by that same tax-exempt creditor.
What’s next? Jeep Courthouse? The McDonald’s Happy Meal Child Support Enforcement Agency? The Corrections Corporation of America Corrections Center? The Barnes & Noble Public Library?
I strenuously object to the county commissioners naming our SeaGate Convention Center as ProMedica’s. One would think that with all our community has done to enrich ProMedica, that they would be grateful to help put a shine on civic spaces without demanding those be named after them.
There is hardly a company in town that is more narcissistic than ProMedica. Do they get to frame SeaGate’s roof perimeter in neon green, too?
PEGGY DALY-MASTERNAK
West Toledo
Need dog-bite facts
Regarding the recent dog attack story (“Dog bite cases jump in June; officials unsure why,” July 14), it seems the most important parts of the incident were missing.
How about any pending civil or criminal actions against the dog’s owners?
This would serve as deterrents to all dog owners. Also, how about a breakdown of this surge of dog bites by breed? Was the dog obtained from the dog pound?
I bet leading this list of the upsurge isn’t beagles.
BEN LESNIEWSKI
Maumee
Southwyck joke
Last week I attended the Toledo Plan Commission for the vote on changing Southwyck zoning to light industrial. What a joke.
Three of us showed up to voice our opinions against this proposal because no one was notified, although they said 180 post cards were sent out to the Southwyck community, plus the sign that sits on Southwyck property.
Unless you are a speed reader, driving by at 45 mph, you really can’t read anything. We have so many empty buildings in the Toledo area it’s sad. Just drive up and down Enterprise Boulevard, South Avenue, Westwood Avenue, and other surrounding areas. That infrastructure is in place for trucks and heavy traffic. We needed the villas and other commercial businesses to be placed in this area.
My councilman, Matt Cherry, told me that we have no money for road or infrastructure improvements. Is the light industrial park going to be built on dirt roads? What about the wear and tear and noise pollution in the area?
Finally, if this was so important to my councilman and council president why was he not present for the plan commission’s vote? Instead he was out in the lobby talking to another councilman.
Toledo needs a wholesale change in our government.
I thought I was looking at the old fools sitting in the balcony on the Muppet show.
RICK REUCHER
South Toledo