• About Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
Thursday, March 4, 2021
39 °f
Platte
49 ° Sat
54 ° Sun
58 ° Mon
61 ° Tue
The Platte County Landmark Newspaper
  • Home
  • Local News
  • Opinion
  • Landmark Live!
  • Looking Backward
  • Home
  • Local News
  • Opinion
  • Landmark Live!
  • Looking Backward
No Result
View All Result
The Platte County Landmark Newspaper
No Result
View All Result

County commission vs. public health

Landmark Staff by Landmark Staff
September 3, 2020
in Letters to the Editor
Public health
10
SHARES
246
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare via Email

EDITOR:

The public health service of this county, the public health service of the State of Missouri and the public health service of the federal government are the only ones at fault for COVID-19 by enacting pandemic strategies to prevent mass fatalities. BOO the public health service, strangle adequate funding, and vomit political attitudes. Right?

RelatedNews

State of transportation

Praise for local road district

The disaster in Texas

The public health service is charged with ensuring the health and welfare of all of us. Things like Ebola, tuberculosis, smallpox, polio, chickenpox, mumps, measles, scurvy, rickets, E. coli and some of the all-time favorites: syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes, AIDS, HIV and the list goes on.

Many of the diseases, polio, smallpox, chickenpox, measles and mumps have been critically reduced in our country.

Who, in their right mind, would ever think the paltry politics of this county are more important than the proper distribution of the CARES funds to the populace of two counties? The inability of the current commission to perform the duties they were elected for is appalling.

Vic McCance’s tirade (in last week Letters to the Editor) about supporting the commission’s decision not giving the funding to the health department is the crux of the problem in Platte County. The presiding commissioner has the deciding vote and final say on all finances. The only requirement to be elected as a presiding commissioner is to live in the county.

County leadership appears deficient of any real governmental experience. Lack of the skill set necessary to protect the county’s assets, law enforcement, and quality of life are proving detrimental to all taxpayers in Platte County. It’s becoming more evident daily.

Failure by the commissioners to support the Platte County Health Department and, as directed, provide the $6 million to Kansas City will haunt taxpayers for decades. Will Mr. McCance be glad to pony up repayment of the $12 million provided and inappropriately spent? Will he like his real estate taxes tripled or quadrupled? Will he be happy losing his property because of the misappropriations of a recalcitrant commissioner? Al Capone’s demise was caused by a U.S. Treasury audit. It’s been the favorite tool of the federal government since then.

If Mr. McCance is truly upset about lost business, mortality rate and the damage done to the education system, then maybe, just maybe, he can start contributing real effort to understand governmental functions that must work together to make our county the best it should be.

Shades of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, known for alleging that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately, the smear tactics that he used led him to be censured by the U.S. Senate.

Eventually McCarthy’s name calling, accusations, tirades and unfair practices led to his downfall. Interesting how history will repeat itself. It seems to me we have again achieved the same or a higher level of disgust, disbelief, and embarrassment by elected local and national officials.

To every thing there is a season, and no matter how hard we try to defeat it, progress will ensue.

–Carol Clopton

Kansas City in

Platte County

Tags: covid-19Health Departmentplatte countytaxes
Landmark Staff

Landmark Staff

Related Posts

Parkville police car

Criminal activity rises by 16% in Parkville

by Ivan Foley
March 3, 2021
0

Total crimes were up in the City of Parkville for the year 2020, but there's no need for residents to believe the city is unsafe in any way. "Our city is growing," says Kevin Chrisman, chief of the Parkville Police...

Judge James Van Amburg

Judge tells city to produce documents

by Debbie Coleman-Topi
March 3, 2021
0

Discovery items that have been withheld from Maki A Platte County judge took action Monday in an ongoing dispute in which a private citizen is suing the City of Parkville for violations of the state's open meetings and records law,...

Mass vaccination Riverside

Volunteer coordinator to aid local vaccination clinics

by Ivan Foley
March 2, 2021
0

Up to $25,000 in federal CARES dollars will be used to hire a volunteer coordinator for the mass vaccination operations of the Platte County Health Department. Working with the Platte County Emergency Management Organization (EMO), which is an arm of...

45 Years Ago–March 12, 1976

by Ivan Foley
March 1, 2021
0

Robert C. Ham of Parkville recently was presented a watch for 30 years of service at Western Electric and Mrs. Ham was presented a pin in honor of the occasion. The Park Hill Acapella Choir will present their 24th annual...

Next Post
Get out to vote

Getting Christians out to vote

Popular News

  • Why the urgency for R-3 bond issue?

    Why the urgency for R-3 bond issue?

    26 shares
    Share 10 Tweet 7
  • Around 1,700 shots to be offered in the next week

    17 shares
    Share 7 Tweet 4
  • City ‘finds’ 2,300 records, gives them to Jason Maki

    16 shares
    Share 6 Tweet 4
  • Attorney general probing Parkville on Sunshine

    10 shares
    Share 4 Tweet 3
  • Investigations, rolling outages and building south

    9 shares
    Share 4 Tweet 2
  • About Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
Call us at 816-858-0363

Copyright © 2019-2020 The Platte County Landmark Newspaper - All Rights Reserved

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Subscribe Online
  • Local News
  • Opinion
  • Landmark Live!
  • Looking Backward

Copyright © 2019-2020 The Platte County Landmark Newspaper - All Rights Reserved

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Create New Account!

Fill the forms bellow to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist