Letters: Mom shouldn't need GoFundMe to pay for baby's gunshot injury

Baby shouldn't need GoFundMe after being shot

I read the May 9 story, "Gunfire into Columbus homes, businesses on the rise, with lives threatened, lost," with concern.

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Then I got to this phrase and I was appalled: "But Aurisa's leg began to abscess as a result of her injury, and the little girl had to have surgery April 8 to remove the bullet. Wimberly said her health insurance would not cover the cost of the $18,182 surgery, so the family began a GoFundMe fundraiser to pay for Aurisa's recovery."

How in the world could it not be medically necessary to remove an abscessed bullet from a 1-year old's leg?

This mom should not have had to start a GoFundMe campaign for that. Our healthcare system is broken.

Cassandra Freeland, Columbus

Replacing parking meters with kiosks a cash grab

Soon to be gone will be one of my fond pleasures in life: finding a parking meter with time remaining on it already paid for by someone else.

I bet a major motive for the city in replacing parking meters with those kiosks was increasing parking fee revenues.

More: Time has expired for Columbus parking meters: Rest to be replaced with kiosks this spring

This is no different than a lawyer billing more than one client for the same time and mileage when traveling to the courthouse to attend to multiple cases, a practice deemed akin to stealing and thereby unethical per attorney disciplinary rules.

Jerome R. Schindler, Columbus

Mail carriers skipped the route and work

Regarding the May 9 letter "Postal Service moving in the right direction":

On May 2, I mailed eight Mother's Day cards from the 43228 post office located off Georgesville Road.

As of May 7, not one of them had been received.

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Four of the cards had addresses in Ohio — Marysville; Thornville, and two in Glenford; two cards were addressed to North Carolina; one was to Idaho; one to Canada.

More: Widespread USPS delays in mail delivery leave Columbus residents frustrated

On May 9, I inquired about the non-delivery — at the same post office — I was told that the employees probably didn't come to work!

Joanne Davis, Columbus

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'Fragile facades' threatened by banned booksAs a teacher, it is always with great interest in which I read articles about banning books in our public schools.

Opinion: Frenzy won't stop kids from reading 'contraband.' They will just get creative.

I always walk away wondering the same thing about book banners. Should your child's reading of a book cause the foundation of your family values to crumble, then I suspect shoddy craftsmanship was the problem, not the book.

Joe Blundo: Banning books deprives readers from making their own decisions

Had you been putting in the quality time, attention and care into your relationship with your child, reading the book would be mere fodder, used to support your family values.

If your family's relationships are weak, then maybe a book could influence your fragile facade.

Michelle Hughes, Columbus