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Thursday, Nov. 05, 2009

Bee's pro-advertiser bias clearly shows in editorial

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The editorial regarding the North County Corridor is unfortunately highly biased and should be viewed accordingly. The Bee is a business and cannot antagonize its main customers that buy ad space. Those customers and The Bee both benefit from growth over farmland, even though the average citizen's quality of life is degraded.

Growth brings in more people, who need more jobs, which attracts more people, who need more jobs, ad infinitum until all prime farmland is covered, as in Los Angeles.

Breaking into farmland north of Kiernan Avenue beyond existing status opens up thousands of acres to development to the Stanislaus River.

I am biased also. I believe that the prime farmland in the Central Valley is a national treasure of more value than all of the national parks combined. It should be so treated since it is both a source of food nationally and ground water recharge locally. Because some growth seems inevitable, make it up, not out. Transportation means should be restricted to present spheres of influence.

VANCE C. KENNEDY
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