I will probably have my Women’s Union card revoked for this, but here goes.

It is beyond me why some people are in such an uproar over the planned opening of a Twin Peaks restaurant in Rogers.

There, I’ve said it.

Do I like that they dress their female wait staff in skimpy costumes? No, but they aren’t the only restaurant that does, including at least one other in town.

My solution? I just don’t go to those restaurants. I don’t create an online petition that gets a virtual handful of people stirred up. Hit ‘em in the pocketbook, I say.

There are a lot of comments posted on the petition regarding morals and objectifying the women. Those are buzz words meant to spin the issue of Twin Peaks’ opening the way the person or persons who created this petition think.

I want to know who these people are. If you feel so strongly about the issue, stand up, be counted and explain your stance.

And before you get bent out of shape, find out the law. Mayor Greg Hines — to whom the petition is addressed — has no authority to stop a business from coming into Rogers.

As a general rule, the only way to stop a business from locating in an area is to have ordinances that would prevent it. We have an ordinance that applies to “adult” businesses, preventing them from locating in proximity to schools or churches.

Twin Peaks is not an “adult” business. To stop them, an ordinance would have to be created that would specify something like: “No restaurant will be allowed that lets young female waitresses wear clothes that are offensive to some people.” And that would be legally suspect.

Wait, a minute, you might say, Walmart doesn’t open in every town corporate officials want. That’s true, but that is because the town has gotten wind of the plan and already approved laws to stop it, or Walmart has opted not to spend the money fighting a city government.

There is always a nearby town that will welcome Walmart, and the tax revenue it brings.

The same holds true of Twin Peaks. If the people behind this restaurant want to locate in Northwest Arkansas, there’s a city that will welcome them and the revenue it will bring to the city’s coffers.

And this business about objectifying women? I’ve known several women who have chosen to work at restaurants like Twin Peaks because the tips are better. They did so with the full knowledge of what they were doing.

Any woman who applies for a job at a restaurant featuring skimpy attire and who later says they didn’t know what they were getting into is either a liar or just plain dumb.

Some of those leaving comments wrote their daughters wouldn’t respect their own bodies and their sons would learn to turn women into sex objects if they went in Twin Peaks.

I’ll admit kids are impressionable, but I ask this: If a trip into a restaurant has that kind of impact on your child, what does it say about your parenting skills?

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The county ambulance vote is Feb. 11. I don’t know whether the aginners are louder, or if there are really so many people opposed to assuring ambulance service in rural Benton County.

Every story our staff has written from the town hall meetings sponsored by the county’s justices of the peace seems filled with people who think someone owes them ambulance service.

I don’t, and I don’t think the other taxpayers in the city of Rogers think they do, either.

One former justice of the peace, Bobby Hubbard, said at a meeting last week that the situation is a poker game and the cities are bluffing. I don’t buy that. If we were in Washington, then maybe. This is Northwest Arkansas, and I don’t believe the decision-makers in Rogers, Ark., are that callous.

I also think it was irresponsible of Steve Curry, the justice of the peace representing District 11, to throw around the adjective “greed” around when describing the cities.

That was like throwing gasoline on flames. Curry could have said he had reservations about the $85 levy, but to accuse the cities of making money on the backs of the sick and injured was the wrong thing to say unless he had evidence, and he provided none.

City officials could get in the name-calling business, too, but it is counter-productive. The only thing important is making certain emergency health care is available when needed.

LEEANNA WALKER IS LOCAL EDITOR OF THE ROGERS MORNING NEWS AND THE SPRINGDALE MORNING NEWS. FOLLOW HER ON TWITTER AT WWW.TWITTER.COM/NWALEEANNA