Company execs should have to live near fracking

Considering that the U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson mill has been fined substantial amounts for air pollution, it is outrageous to even consider additional forms of pollution (such as noise, water and more air) which would be a direct result of fracking (”New Mexico Company Planning to Drill, Frack Gas Wells at U.S. Steel’s Edgar Thomson Mill,” Dec. 28).

Over the past several months there have been numerous articles about the ill health effects of fracking, not to mention the earthquakes attributed to this type of oil drilling.

If that isn’t bad enough, the company planning to do this has never done this before. I suggest they experiment in New Mexico or Harrisburg and that their executives reside within a 5-mile radius.

U.S. Steel should stick to steel production. ALAN LICHTENSTEIN

Wilkins

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case, greatly increase verbal precision and intellectual depth, virtues so lacking in the dumbed-down education we have seen over the past halfcentury. These days, contract attorneys don’t even know that the plural of “addendum” is “addenda”!

You think I am an elitist? Consider this: Two decades ago, a newspaper article said that taking Latin was of greater benefit to the average student than to the “best and brightest.”

We should reintroduce Greek and Latin in all schools, starting in the third or fourth grade, and build a society where longshoremen, machinists, operating engineers, plumbers, electricians, bus drivers, etc., know “Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres” ( “All of Gaul is divided into three parts,” from Caesar’s record of hiswars in Gaul).

Now that would be making an America that is truly great again! ROBERT P. SECHLER North Side