OPINIONS/EDITORIALS

We made it!
It's finally spring.
And there is ample evidence all around as Mother Nature wakes up from a frigid winter and the doldrums are replaced by warmer weather, ample sunshine and a whole different attitude.
Officially spring began at 5:01 a.m. this morning, Thursday, March 20.

If you've read this column, paid attention to our front page or driven through downtown Youngsville in the past decade, or so, you know that congestion is a problem.
You also probably know that the town -- and the county, finally -- have been and are working on ways to expedite construction of a bypass that would take commuter traffic off Main Street and adjacent residential streets -- clearing the town's main artery for local traffic.

Dear editor:
As our county experiences unprecedented growth, the needs of our citizens are expanding just as rapidly.
Property taxes are rising, county revenues are surging, and yet, essential public facilities have not kept pace with this population boom.

Dear editor: About the time you feel that our elected Senators and Representatives are acting like children, they seem to carry their behavior to a new level.
The entire Democrat delegation that refused to stand and recognize the youngster fighting cancer or the mother and sister of the student brutally slain in Georgia by an illegal alien, or the young man whose father was a policeman and killed in the line of duty and was appointed to West Point.