Herald-Leader flooded with letters

With a single AP photo and a two sentence caption, the Lexington Herald-Leader appeared uninterested in reporting on our I Love Mountains Day rally.  The paper has since been flooded with calls and letters criticizing their  poor coverage of this important event.  Eleven of these letters were published in Saturday's editorial page.

Clean water matters

The Herald-Leader can cover every aspect of meaningless news but can't provide adequate coverage of an important issue to all Kentuckians: clean water.

There was a rally in Frankfort on Feb. 14 in support of the "Stream Saver Bill," but there was no news story in the Herald-Leader. More than 1,200 Kentucky citizens and taxpayers who actually want to protect Kentucky's water attended, but the Herald-Leader seems only interested in covering meaningless stuff.

Having clean water and protecting against a water shortage should be more important issues to Kentuckians than deciding what to buy their sweeties for Valentine's Day.

What is wrong with the Herald-Leader? Has it been bought, as legislators in Frankfort have?

Clean water and air matter, not profits for coal mining executives and their bought flunkies.

Linda Sizemore
Richmond

Disappointed in paper

The Herald-Leader's lack of significant coverage of the large rally on the ice-covered steps of the state Capitol on Valentine's Day is very disappointing.

Attempts by legislators to ignore such input from citizens trying to get a hearing on the "Stream Saver Bill" may be attributed to their being in bed with surface-mining interests. I hope the Herald-Leader is not subject to the same sordid connections.

Maybe the rally was too peaceful and friendly. Civil disobedience or a few arrests might have made better news copy.

John Payne
Berea

Publish Berry's speech

What a shame that the Herald-Leader did not see fit to give more attention to the huge rally that took place in Frankfort on Valentine's Day. More than 1,200 people from all over the state came to protest mountaintop-removal in Eastern Kentucky.

Kentucky author Wendell Berry gave a wonderful speech, which, at the very least, deserved publication in the paper. People from Eastern Kentucky were there to testify to the devastating effects of mountaintop removal, which is ruining their drinking water and turning their beautiful land into a horrible moonscape.

I'm disappointed that the Herald-Leader did not provide more enlightening coverage of this vital issue.

Dianne Shuntich
Richmond