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To the editor: I am appalled that our city council wastes time on things like last week’s open hearing to consider censuring city councilor Darcy Long-Curtis. They look like a bunch of fifth graders picking on the new kid. Or is this because she's not all sweet and smiley towards the Neanderthals on the council?

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A city police sergeant working graveyard heard someone shaking a can of spray paint in the wee hours of Friday morning. Not long after, two teens were in custody, one of whom admitted to over 100 instances of graffiti. The Dalles Police Sgt. Dan Nelson was “sitting dark” in his patrol car downtown when he heard the rattle of a can of spray paint within a block of his location.

A bunch of years ago a friend of mine gave me disc and said, you’ve gotta check these guys out. The band, The Gourds, was named after the monetary unit of Haiti, and the album was called Cow Fish Fowl or Pig.