Enforce rules at skate park

I read with interest and concern the article on Dec. 26 about "Police not ticketing skaters as of yet." I see a number of lawsuits just waiting to spring on our city by not enforcing the law for helmets and pads.

Like a parent who can't say no to a child, the police are doing the same by not ticketing and removing those skaters who break the law.

Yes, I agree with "focusing on the safety of the skateboarders" and talking with them, but when that first head injury occurs who then will be doing all the talking -- the lawyers?

Why have a city ordinance when it's not enforced. Either enforce it or risk the repercussions. Please choose wisely!

MARY ANN MEYER

Durham

Bipartisan effort

I wish to thank J.E. McCaffery for his or her tutorial on the recent developments pertaining health care reform legislation ("Democrats show contempt for citizens," Letters, Herald-Sun, 12/24).

First McCaffery accuses only Democrats for all the underhanded and evil ways they contemptuously produced House and Senate versions of the bills in question and then, in the very same sentence, accuses them of having done so "behind closed doors with no partisan input," meaning, evidently, that it was done through bipartisan efforts.

Not to say that I'm exactly in love with the inherent graft evident within our political and health care systems, and this includes local conflicts of interest that the "trusted and essential" in Durham continually refuse to inform readers about, but no wonder those who perceive themselves as being politically on the right are often out in left field.

In the profit-driven marketplace controlled by state corpocrats, the bride and groom will never divorce. It would do wonders for McCaffery's education in propaganda to explore those behind sweet heath-care "deals" in our own backyard.

JOHN RHODES

Efland