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Written by: Suzanne Schneider

Published: 28 May 2008

Created: 25 May 2008

Last Updated: 03 July 2008

If you like Thai food the Kour Thai is a must.

We have been frequenting the Kour Thai since it opened last year. To begin with the exterior needed work but the food has always been great. The restaurant is small and the decor is what you would except – clean and neat.

Now the grounds are really shaping up and the food is still worth the drive from Kelseyville. The service is excellent and the staff are some of the most pleasant people I've met.

Never had Thai food? I challenge you to try it. The menu is in English – with descriptions of each dish. You may also ask the chef.

No doubt you have heard Thai food is hot and spicy. Not necessarily so. You can get the food with as little "hot" as you like.

The Kour Thai is the place to go in Lake County for Thai food.

Suzanne Schneider lives in Kelseyville. Kour Thai is on Hwy 20 in Lucerne.

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Written by: Tom Slaight

Published: 27 May 2008

Created: 25 May 2008

Last Updated: 25 May 2008

Thank you to the Lake County News for publishing my letter questioning the information that we are given concerning Lake County air quality.

The comments my letter received, however, were troubling. One comment from a reader alluded to some vague, unexplained notion of a contrail conspiracy. Others took the bait and responded to that diversion, instead of my letter concerning air quality and accountability.

There may be no quicker way to sabotage a legitimate issue than to simply mention the loaded word, “conspiracy.” Having local officials and politicians define their terms and support their statements seems to me to be quite reasonable. That was the issue and it still is.

Tom Slaight lives in Cobb.

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Written by: Dave Gebhard

Published: 26 May 2008

Created: 24 May 2008

Last Updated: 25 May 2008

America, the country of creativity and the cradle of innovation, is committing suicide by using voodoo economics. Running negative import/export balances of payments, and paying for a war on the installment plan, is idiotic. A home or business would be in bankruptcy long before now. The deficit can only go so high before the debt service or interest, exceeds the realistic ability of taxpayers to pay. After all, we need money to run the country in the future.

Are our lawmakers public servants or our deciders? Are their real masters the rich and corporate bigwigs? Why else would they pass tax cuts for the wealthy knowing that someone else must pay the freight, which by default is the middle class, because the poor by definition, cannot. Who else benefits when death taxes for those with estates over $3 million are cut? Who benefits more from laws governing business and banking, than the rich? When health, safety and clean air regulations for businesses are made voluntary not mandatory, the public good suffers.

Finally, regarding health care, billions are spent each year without covering 44 million Americans. Those who are not covered are automatically covered by the taxpayers. We need to have a single-payer health care system to include all Americans and their medications. In addition, we need also to include temporary immigrant workers in the tax base. Thus, they contribute and are covered while working here. A precedent is the bracero program of times past. Weed out the criminal element and give temporary work permits to the healthy for a three- to six-month period.

America needs to find a leader who believes in Democracy, the public interest, and the greater good. One who believes in bottom up stimuli and economics, instead of trickle-down or supply side.

Dave Gebhard lives in Lakeport.

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