Dear Editor,

I am writing in response to Ms. Price's comments about air pollution and Big Brown. Unfortunately, I have not been able to exercise my freedom of speech rights until now. However, I also am pleased that people like Ms. Price are willing and able to implement their constitutional rights.

I have spent a good deal of time researching air pollution and the part Big Brown plays in that scenario. I also went to the TCEQ website and did indeed find that very helpful. I think proper research is crucial to get the correct information and not just hearsay from others in frenetic political groups.

I have a full life with two jobs, four kids, and a workaholic husband, so I don't look at anything that uses my time unless I am serious about the endeavor. So here goes: First, I would like to address some words to Ms. Price's thoughts from her previous letter. I think it highly interesting that Ms. Price would like to get rid of ALL pollution. We would ALL like that Ms. Price, but it would be highly unlikely if not downright impossible to get rid of ALL pollution. I say this with the knowledge of a Field Biologist that man pollutes simply by breathing. I am also secure in saying that there has never been a time in the history of earth that there has not been pollution. May I suggest that Ms. Price stick to facts instead of naive proclamations. She would then be able to present a more moderate mien and have less of an appearance of a desperate political activist.

Second, I would like to address the fact that Ms. Price conveniently waited to care about the environment, her children, and grandchildren and of course other downtrodden individuals until after her husband retired from Big Brown Plant. I suppose that whole time you were demanding he quit because the environment and your childrens' health were more important. Well Ms. Price, I care about my children now and that's why I did research on the subject. I don't trust other people to tell me what I want to hear.

After delving deeply into SO2 and NO2 emissions, I found that Big Brown emits at least 20 percent less SO2 than the fringe group claimed and those emissions continue to lower. Also, NO2 emissions have been cut by 88 percent in the DFW and East Texas area. The Luminant group as a whole has committed to bringing cleaner air and lower emissions to this area.

It is very hard to predict where particulate emissions will fall from a power plant because wind conditions and weather in the upper atmosphere determine their placement. If you look at recent news about the East Coast, they are experiencing particulate downfall from China's Power Plants.

Third, some Texas Power Plants have been grandfathered if they are of a certain age. This has been done because all of us need electricity, and are unwilling to lessen our need and if we didn't grandfather them they would be out of business and we would be out of electricity. Now, Ms. Price what do you prefer? Would you like your grandchildren to be without cool air, lights, refrigeration, etc . . . or would you rather the State of Texas grandfather these power plants until they can afford to come up to specs?

Now, addressing air filters, they are not necessary. A research plane from Baylor College comes over at specified times and samples the air over this area because of the Power Plant emissions. TCEQ also filters air from the power plant stacks and if you go to their website they will give you all the info you want or need.

The County Commissioners have done a grave disservice to this community by signing off on a $170,000 price tag for air filters for this town. By listening to a few radicals they have neglected the rest of their constituents. I won't forget or forgive come voting time.

If anyone cares about the environment they can do the following: carpool to work, start a compost in their yard, begin a back yard garden, drive a small car instead of a gas-guzzler, plant lots of trees, lower or raise your thermostat according to the season, recycle, conserve energy by turning off lights and unused appliances and computers, plant local species of plants, and most of all teach your children how precious the earth is to life and living.

Big Brown Mine and Plant cares about this community and they have been a part of this town much longer than this negative advocacy group. I'm putting my trust in the facts.

Sincerely, Debra Munoz Fairfield

* * * * * Dear Editor:

What an amazing, yet frightening time in history! It seems we have gotten to the point that much of what we have done for years is now suddently wrong and unconstitutional! Can this be, and if so how?

Ronald Reagan said: "The government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives, governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them." He wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would look like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.

He also stated: "Man is not free unless government is limited, and if we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." He said: "People do not make wars, governments do."

I especially appreciate his states, "We are never defeated unless we give up on God" and "Without God, democracy will cease to exist, will not and cannot endure."

Thomas Jefferson said: "When the people their government, thre is tyranny; when the government fears the people it is liberty!" He also stated: "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not, and it is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes!" Jefferson predicted the future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

These thoughts are definitely worth the time to consider! America has always been known as the "Land of Opportunity!" Will we let the government take our choices and freedoms? The very freedoms so many have fought and died to protect! The very freedoms many are sacrificing for now!

I thank God often daily for the opportunity to live in the land of the free and the home of the brave! I am so thankful for the ability to make the choices I feel are best for my loved ones! I pray that our precious daughter will have the ability to do the same!

Will we stay on the course of losing the things so dear to our country? I feel capitalism and God are essential to our survival! America is the greatest country in the world! Let's all protect the land we love! Stand up for freedom! God bless America!

Thank you for your time!

Karen Albright Fairfield

* * * * * Dear Editor:

I wish that a speech to schoolchildren was the most we have to worry about from President Obama. I think all the concern about that comes from the lack of trust in him that many people now have. The stimulus packages, the auto takeover, the health care bill, all designed for government control, ending capitalism, destroying our freedom and ushering in socialism.

I appreciate the Fox News channel for exposing the facts about what is happening to our country. Those of us who have been around since World War II have been aware of the Communist threat to take over America without firing a shot. They call this bunch left wing radicals now, but no difference the name, if it "quacks like a duck."

Unless you watch Fox News, you may never know what's happening to our country until it's too late. The rest of the media are too busy being nice to the president and sticking their heads in the sand.

I agree that we should have respect for the president's office, but shouldn't we draw a line when someone is out to destroy our way of life? It has nothing to do with political parties, as they used to be, or race. Our America is in danger.

Jean Bonner Fairfield

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Dear Editor:

Methinks Ms. Price, in her letter to the editor delivered Sept. 24, reveals that she did not understand what I said about the "Czars" appointed by our presidents, past and present. I have no objection to the position of "Czar" appointed by the President, what I do have objection to is "WHO" and "HOW" they are appointed.

If my memory serves me well, I believe President George W. Bush had more than one man serve as "Drug Czar" due to turnover in the position. He also appointed other Czars to advise him on other matters. Who they are (or were) and how they were appointed is wherin the difference lies.

President Bush's Czars were appointed by him with the approval and oversight of the Senate. They were thoroughly vetted and found to be in the mainstream with no "wild" affiliations or agendas.

Such is not the case with an avowed Communist by the name of Van Jones, who President Obama appointed "Green Czar," whose self proclaimed mission was to totally transform our government and redistribute the wealth. I heard him say in his own words in regard to our government, "We are going to change the whole thing. We are going to change the whole thing!" He was not appointed with the oversight of the Senate nor were at least five other "Czars" appointed by President Obama with far out agendas, shady backgrounds and relationships.

Our President, in his own words, said, "You can know who I am by whom I surround myself . . ." I am fearful that he "is" who he has surrounded himself with.

Examine each of the 32 Czars he has appointed (they have full access to the President and are accountable to nobody but the President while they advise him). See if you think we might be headed for the transformation of our government as promised by President Obama just five days before his inauguration when he stated "In five days we will begin the total transformation of our government."

But of course you don't hear what I have written here from the "so called Main Stream Media."

May God bless our great nation and help us keep it as it is, without "transformation."

Jim Gazzaway Fairfield