Comments for Our Voice at http://tracypress.com , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://tracypress.com Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:24:45 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15316/2244/#comment-55721 Cheri You ought to go ahead and clear this off. Apparently no one is really interested even though it is equal if not more important an issue than the pie-in-the-sky South County Court project, which was invisioned long before Celeste came up with the idea of placing it in the bow-tie-area, despite the reportings in the press to the contrary. I will give her credit though, it was her idea to place it in the bow-tie area. But several people and I are on record of stating a much better location for a project like this would be the Chrisman Road site the city already owns and would like to develop. Hopefully enough people are paying attention to the canal diversion project that would shunt water out of the Delta and down to Southern California. But apparently this article isn't getting out so you might as well save server space and move it to the archives. Thanks for the article though because I do agree with what you have provided. Thanks Dave Hardesty - Dave Hardesty Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:36:38 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15316/2244/#comment-55494 Leroy, Can we also do something to improve the levees to protect our towns? Thanks! - Tracy RealNews Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:37:59 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15316/2244/#comment-55154 So right on, Dave Hardesty!!!!! Voters: Freedom comes with a price, our own responsibility as American citizens to see that it stays preserved? I think so. Troops cannot do it alone? Be empowered with information, not hearsays, negativity, look for many solutions and find the best answer out of those solutions, arm-chair verbal thrashing is not progress by any means. If there is a flaw, point it out and offer suggestion? Or even address concerns over it? Our job as citizen to do our own homework well on issues, platform, connections, ties, so on to vote wisely on local, state and national level. Concerns and addressing issues by offering solutions on this blog may reach the leaders' attention and draw from it in their decision making. Hope so. Some leaders may read this or not. You covered it well! Thanks. -amy - amy Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:41:19 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15316/2244/#comment-55122 missyE I agree with you and it just goes to show you that people seem to really be only interested in how they can profit from such things. Oh, you will get the comment, "Well, what do you expect, the government controls everything?" Yeah right! Nope, it's not true, the reason things like this go on is because people are really not serious about doing much of anything except to complain about it. When it comes to contacting their Assemblyperson and getting out to vote, the reality shows on television and sports games on television take precidence in their lives. And those of us who publically speak out are castigated and ridiculed by nameless bloggers who will not post a logical arguement but resort to political muck raking and mud slinging as they attack the character of the individual instead of arguing their reasons for supporting projects like these. In short, the reason America is in the the condition it is today is because our citizens have largely opted out of the process of governing themselves and let the tiny but very influential, special interest groups do it for them. Then when they see a disaster they whine and complain but really don't do much more than that. We deserve the government we have because most of us don't actively participate in the process and have willingly given away our freedom. Dave Hardesty - Dave Hardesty Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:44:57 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15316/2244/#comment-55094 Only 1 post on this important issue? Wow! People spew hatred on these forums about a variety of topics but only 1 response to how our own backyard is being ruined by Southern California? We will NEVER win this as the majority of the population of our state is in southern california and has the power of the vote/legislature. They will continue to bring up this issue until a peripheral canal is built. This will cause the salinity of the delta to rise and kill off the wildlife. All so Southern California can grow and grow and grow. People, this is a serious issue and we really need to stop this. Even if you don't care about wildlife, you should care about our local agriculture and recreational uses for the delta water. - missyE Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:50:06 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15316/2244/#comment-54924 "We’re happy to see Ornellas speak out on behalf of the Delta; we wish more Tracy residents would do the same. Anyone who says this is a state issue and not a local one needs to wake up." Ok, I qualify for that statement and I am speaking out. With my eyes wide open I will say that Leroy is absolutely on the mark. Look at the history of the past 30 years and what has happened to the water quality, fish, crabs and animals in the bay area, that is fed by the water that naturally use to come from the delta. You can't eat the fish because the water has become as polluted as the delta waters have been diverted and no longer flush out the bay with fresh water, as our creator intended it to be when he designed it or as it evolved, take your pick. Also, the Dungeness crab, once abundant in the Bay, is no longer eatable. If we continue to take water from the Delta and send it to Southern California this ecological disaster is only going to get worse and will have a direct economic impact, if not a health impact, on all of us living here. Think I am wrong? Take a good hard look at Mono Lake and the Colorado River. The lake is virtually dry and the River no longer reaches the Gulf of California. Why? It’s because we have diverted the water to Southern California and Arizona for more residential growth and agriculture. Somewhere, sometime, this sort of thing is going to have to stop or we really will have a global ecological disaster of our own making and that is a verifiable and provable fact, unlike the global warming crud spewed by the likes of Al Gore. But isn't it odd that the rich talking heads in Jollywood and Uncle Al never mention things like this? Dave Hardesty - Dave Hardesty Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:36:36 +0100