LETTERS 04/28/08

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Mr. Moore amusingly stamps these testimonies as from the “under-credentialed” when his own scientific credentials deserve a big question mark.

Eulea Tharp

Blue Springs

Editor’s note: Because the makers of “Expelled” declined to show the film in advance to newspaper reviewers, The Star ran the only review of the film available through its news services — a pan by Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel.

Carl Peterson should go

Attention, Hunt Family: Are any of you paying attention to what’s gone on at Arrowhead these past years?

While steadily raising ticket prices, Carl Peterson has failed to deliver on any of his promises. He’s chased away top-caliber players (remember John Tait?), drafted badly and thumbed his nose at long-suffering fans, who are sick of his arrogance and excuses.

Jared Allen should have been a mainstay of the Chiefs’ rebuilding efforts. Instead, he is taking his considerable talent, character and leadership abilities to Minnesota.

We’ve seen enough head coaches, staff and players pass through Arrowhead to know that the Chiefs’ problems start and end with Peterson.

If we promise to forgive whatever dirt Carl may have on the family that explains his job security, will you take the first and most important step to rebuild the Chiefs by showing King Carl the door?

Carole Damon

Kansas City

So much for Clark Hunt bringing any intelligence to the Chiefs front office. How could he let a proven loser, Carl Peterson, give away a proven winner, Jared Allen?

With Peterson’s draft track record, Trezelle Jenkins comes to mind. The Chiefs literally gave away a young pro bowl player that the Chiefs could have built around if it were not for Peterson’s oversize ego.

I bet the total I.Q. in the Chiefs front office is not as high as Jared’s age — 26.

Michael A. West

Leawood

Leawood coyotes

I read with interest and empathy the dilemma faced by the city of Leawood to control the coyote problems in its southernmost housing developments (4/20, Local, City to discuss coyote remedy”). I am sympathetic to Leawood residents who have lost cherished pets to coyote predation.

In my view, the problem is significant and far-reaching. I suspect that the Kansas City metropolitan area ranks near the top of metro areas nationally in urban sprawl, perhaps just after Atlanta. The true costs of unchecked sprawl are not just the incursion of houses into former wildlife habitat but the extension, maintenance, future replacement and ongoing administrative costs of expensive low-density urban infrastructure, including streets, bridges, interstate highways, utilities, public transportation, public works and police services.

I wince when I fill my car with $3.60 gasoline, but I think there’s hope. The silver lining in that cloud may be better than we think in terms of our built environment. As the true cost of gasoline moves to a parity with that paid by European nations, I suspect that egregious urban sprawl may ultimately be stopped or dramatically controlled, even in the Kansas City area.

Gas prices of $7 or $8 a gallon may just hold some great benefits for the future of American cities.

Chuck Stewart

Westwood

Vicki Bishop of Leawood (4/23, Letters) writes that she is an “animal lover,” but has not seen her cat, Soccer, in five months. She blames the coyote population.

A true “animal lover” would not let a pet run loose. City ordinances against allowing pets to run free are widely ignored in the case of cats.

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