Comments on: Corps of Engineers Rejects Request to Deepen Harbor https://capecharleswave.com/2013/07/corps-of-engineers-rejects-request-to-deepen-harbor/ Your Online Newspaper in Cape Charles, Virginia Fri, 07 Aug 2015 21:55:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Deborah Bender https://capecharleswave.com/2013/07/corps-of-engineers-rejects-request-to-deepen-harbor/#comment-16410 Mon, 22 Jul 2013 23:21:49 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=7741#comment-16410 “The request was made in April 2012 by Town Manager Heather Arcos, who wrote: ‘During the past year businesses in the Harbor have lost significant contracts due to the lack of sufficient depth for moving goods from the Harbor.’ Arcos did not specify which businesses were losing contracts.”

Which businesses, Ms. Arcos? Tell us which businesses. Of course she didn’t specify which businesses — because there were none!

]]> By: Mike Kuzma, Jr https://capecharleswave.com/2013/07/corps-of-engineers-rejects-request-to-deepen-harbor/#comment-16381 Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:49:25 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=7741#comment-16381 Thank them for their “input.” Wish them a nice week. Never let them into our area again, after we DO IT OURSELVES. De Tocqueville was most impressed by the American ability to do what needed to be done, without going hat in hand to the Government. Liberals took us back to that supplicant status. Reject it.

]]> By: Bobby Roberts https://capecharleswave.com/2013/07/corps-of-engineers-rejects-request-to-deepen-harbor/#comment-16235 Sat, 20 Jul 2013 16:29:11 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=7741#comment-16235 Another example of the federal government pulling back from rural areas. No more grants for rural sewer lines, more hospital consolidation, decrease in rural low-income housing dollars, removal of channel markers—all signs that federal dollars are only going to be spent where the most people live. The days of subsidizing rural economies might be over. We don’t like it, we don’t agree with it—but we better get used to it.

]]> By: Spencer Murray https://capecharleswave.com/2013/07/corps-of-engineers-rejects-request-to-deepen-harbor/#comment-16219 Sat, 20 Jul 2013 11:41:57 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=7741#comment-16219 So let me see if I get this: The channel won’t be there unless the business is already there, and the business won’t come unless the channel is there. Go figure. The fact is that the US Army Corps of Engineers only has money for year-long studies here. We build infrastructure in other countries, mostly ones that hate us. Good grief, Charlie Brown.

]]>