Here are some of the issues that area residents are discussing. The statements were phoned in anonymously so the Courier does not vouch for their veracity, nor do we know what motivated the caller:

If the city is going to allow vagrants to live in Main Street Park for months, they should put Porta-Potties in so people won’t have to walk through their messes. The public deserves better than that.

Why is it that the previous administration blames everything on the stimulus when the whole world is going bankrupt? Why didn’t they say, “We need to get together and do something before we go bankrupt.”?

Regarding the letter to the editor in Sunday’s paper concerning the government taking Social Security, if they try to do that, they need to get rid of what’s in office and get somebody in there who can do better than that.