I read with great amusment Ralph Nichols' recent column in the Highline Times. You came across as, let's just say, elitist. Which I am seeing more and more these days.

You know, the ones with all of the clever one-liners and quotes. The ones that presume to have all the answers for all of us. I mean why bother attending meetings when we have you.

I have lived in this part of town most of my life. I remember seeing the cable car tracks on Ambaum where the road was in disrepair. Or the bricks on Des Moines Drive. I am one of the many folks that live, yup, on the west side of Ambaum. Where by the way a great many people do from many walks of life. I believe I am correct in assuming that you were making some clever hidden remark there.

Anyway, the folks that live eh, over here, pay a great deal in property taxes, which support many things in this area.

I am not one that believes that progress is all that important; it isn't all that it is cracked up to be. We are at odds as to what Burien's full potential might be.

I don't mind small, I don't like big. I don't like all that Big brings with it. You know, it's like "lets make this a four-lane road, I am sick of all this traffic," so we do. Now we have the same traffic except now we have four lanes of it.

What's wrong with Sleepy Hollow anyhow? What really irks me is the no vote. I can live with the consequences, apparently you and our wonderful council can't.

It really is like all of the problems that face us as a country. All I usually have to do to find the root cause is follow the money trail. I wonder where this one leads.

It was a good thing my copy of the Highline Times was free. I would hate to have spent the money to read what's good for me according to you.

Rick Spengler

Burien

(from the West Side of Ambaum)