PUBLIC VIEWPOINT: Neighborhood Speed Tables Pleasing

I want to state how pleased I am with the speed tables within the Washington-Willow neighborhood.

We, who reside here, are plagued by speeding motorists using our streets to “cut through” to Arkansas 45 or College Avenue. The speed tables have caused at least some to slow down.

Since we are near to the square, stores, library, and activities, we walk most places. Speeding through residential areas is totally unnecessary.

Apparently, some feel free to disregard speed limits and warnings about speedtables. May they break an axle.

Thank you Kyle Cook, Don Marr, Lioneld Jordan and anyone else who came up with this solution. I wish we could have more of them on some of the other streets.

BONNIE DAVIS

Fayetteville

WHO ARE YOU REPRESENTING?

The race for Arkansas House is getting a bit confusing. The Arkansas House of Representatives is a local position that represents a small district and is ourvoice in Little Rock on state matters that affect our little district.

From the elaborate mass mailings that I have been receiving from “Americans for Prosperity” on behalf of Charlie Collins, you would think that this is some race for a national office. They do not concern our district and the representative from our district has no say in these matters, yet it is another example of the Koch brothers, who started and fund “Americans for Prosperity,” to get a local politician to be their mouthpiece for their larger agenda.

The mailings are large and very nicely done and the signs around town are large, numerous and very nicely done, but let’s not forget that this is a local race for a local district in the State House that is supposed to be about local issues.

Let’s leave the national stuff to the folks in Washington and quit allowing powerful out-of-state interests from trying to use our local politics to promote their national agenda regardless of who they are and what their agenda is.

HARVEY SMITH

Fayetteville