Letters to the editor for May 2

Give wisely

If you stop giving panhandlers money, they will stop panhandling. It’s as simple as that.

There’s a better way to help. Choose a local nonprofit that works with the homeless and hungry and give them a donation. Better yet, choose one that addresses the needs of homeless children, teens and mothers because they are not the ones looking for a hand out from a passing car. They are most likely trying to access the services nonprofits provide.

If you really want to give the guy on the corner something, give him a list of services he can go to for some assistance.

We don’t need a law to stop the panhandling, just common sense.

3 new warehouses won’t have environmental impact?

I just read your article about the proposed building of three new warehouses in Lacey and them not being required to have an environmental impact statement due to it being a mitigated determination of non-significance.

I have a serious problem with that due to the fact that any large construction project like this must have an environmental impact statement.

This is just a ploy to avoid letting the public know what is really being planned here. Is there something else to hide, or is someone else getting paid under the table, or both?

These sizes of warehouses could be used or leased out for biological, nuclear, or some other kind of waste. The environmental impact not only states what the facilities will be used for, but also what they will not be used for. The project alone has many unanswered, serious questions as well as a hidden agenda.

Do not let up on this issue -- people have a right to know what is going to be built in their backyards. Why the secrecy around this issue?

You need to run this article again on the front page of your newspaper. People have a right to know!

This story was originally published May 1, 2019 at 2:08 PM.