Opinion

The Editor, Are you like me counting down the days till June? The kids get out of school, sun-kissed evenings, vacations begin and the world just seems right. The start of summer, where you never have enough time to do all the nothing you want. And .

Given the number of real injustices and outrages in the world, it's probably wrong of me to flip out about grammar and word usage. Especially since I am far from perfect myself, in both speech and writing.

The Editor, There is no mystery about the election results of May 14. The polls wern't wrong. The media reported the record of the Liberal government correctly. Even the Liberals knew they didn't deserve another chance.

The issue of affordable housing is huge here in Richmond and throughout the Lower Mainland. Housing prices have sky rocketed over the past decade, which would be fine if incomes had kept pace - but they haven't.

The Editor, Re: "Richmond slips to bottom of turnout table," News, May 17.

The Editor, Having had time to catch my breath and reflect on the provincial election last week, I must say how very impressed I was with all my fellow candidates in Richmond-Steveston.

If there was every any doubt that Stephen Harper's Conservatives bear zero resemblance to the long ago reformers who railed against government corruption and pork barrel politics, the expense scandal that's engulfed Senator Mike Duffy has surely put

The Editor, Re: "Would our MLAs take one for the team," News, May 17. Who should step down? Too bad, so sad, Ms. Clark, democracy has spoken. Perhaps you should get a real job? Oh, yeah, there are none in the B.C.

The Editor, Re: "District updates inclusion policy review," News, April 9. I read with interest the comments of Kathy Champion, director of instruction and learning services for Richmond School Board.

Well, I was wrong. Along with pretty much everyone else, I thought the election last week was going to produce a result exactly the opposite of what actually happened. Polls were uniformly incorrect and created an entrenched impression that the B.C.