Thank you for bringing the U.S. Constitution to Kenmore’s attention, both our rights to privacy and our freedom to express ourselves in recent editorials.

Regarding Tom Corrigan’s read of “Little Brother”: Works equally scary and equally thought provoking are David Baldacci’s mysteries. An adventurous read, a bit like “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” they raise us out of a stupor to ask where is the line between the bad guys and the self aggrandizement of our own institutions. My favorite institution is the Fourth Estate, the freedom of the press, and it is that estate’s job to ferret out the truth.

I applaud you for pursuing this career of no economic compensation beyond subsistence living in this culture.

Your local paper has little support from business. I think if you were to more aggressively become the Fourth Estate instead of a paper that does not dig deeply, you would get that support. Much of our public did not even want Kenmore to become incorporated in the first place, and now that has happened, much of the citizenry would like to join Lake Forest Park for the protection of the community’s dollars.

Protecting the community’s dollars is what you can do by not pitting Mayor David Baker and councilmember John Hendrickson against each other as if this is a pit-bull fight, but by your trying to understand the budget and explaining that to us, your readers and their public. I believe if we understood the budget, we could go forward without rancor, and solve the community’s issues.

Ann Hurst