To the editor:

My wife and I went to the Wakarusa Music Festival for three years and met many interesting people. One of the vendors was on a planning commission in Michigan and he told me about his experience with Wal-Mart. He told about their lawyers asking what was needed: improved roads (done), water problems (fixed), anything else? (we will pay). Wal-Mart wanted that store. Here we read the reporter cannot even get a comment for his two articles. Does Wal-Mart really care about the second store?

I have watched the 6-Wak saga for years. The original site plan was as the backup site for Home Depot if they did not get the present site. The developer went shopping for a new tenant when Home Depot bent Horizon 2020 for its location and left 6-Wak without a reason for building.

This is a land-use issue because it makes no difference who applies: Horizon 2020 does not call for as much commercial as the developers want to build at that intersection. Also, do we want more low-paying sales clerk jobs? I think the voters wanted good-paying jobs and not just “jobs.”

David Geyer,

Lawrence