Speak Out: Preakness Stakes, property taxes

I have been around horses all my life and owned three of them. At the Preakness Stakes, a jockey fell and the horse kept running. What if Bodexpress bypassed all the other horses and won as a riderless horse? That would’ve set a precedent. That’s why I won’t gamble. If they’d let horses run without jockeys there’d be a different turnout. Thank goodness the horse didn’t get hurt. The horse could have been trampled to death. . . It should be a lesson that you have to be careful.

Pat, Chicago Ridge

George in Burbank suggested that a person’s attitude should be part of the driving examination. Just how do you fairly judge attitude? It is subjective.

Dolly

I read in Speak Out about a 70-year-old person with a modest, three-bedroom home. His property tax bill went up another $500 and he didn’t know what to do. There are many of us like that. Let’s have all the people who have had their property tax bills raised form a large committee and go to House Speaker Michael Madigan, who specializes in real estate taxation, and have our taxes reduced. That should solve the problem for many people. . .

John, Bridgeport

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