Downtown solution

After reading Tom Henderson's editorial on March 29, I'm offering to write an editorial for Tom once a month so he won't waste space writing a babbling mess and he can have a day off to recharge his brain cell. I'm not sure what his point was ranting about parking, driving, drinking and DUIs. The only thing that made sense to me was the colossal waste of $33,000 to have someone tell us there is no parking problem. I'm sure this individual is laughing his ass off as he tells his friends that somebody paid him an insane amount of money to tell them nothing is wrong!

Getting back on track, I can only deduce two things from his editorial: Tom is sitting somewhere downtown late every Friday and Saturday night in his faded green 1963 Volvo with three hubcaps and cracked windshield secretly gathering notes on people, or he's one of those stumbling out of the bar, burning rubber all the way down Main Street, yelling obscenities and hanging his bright white cheeks out the window.

Does no one have a solution to downtown? Let's try this. There is no parking problem (obviously). All owners and employees who work downtown should be parking in the off-street parking lots and let customers use the Main Street parking. A highway goes right through downtown, which shouldn't be a rutted piece of crap, and the city needs to provide huge incentives for businesses to locate there. End of story!

Mark Lorenz

Clarkston