Local architectural firms have strangle hold on Springfield

In regards to your story by Regina Wang on the local Architectural firms. I wish she would have asked the following questions to those firms complaining. Do you only bid work in the Springfield School District area and no where else? I think common sense would tell you no. They bid work all over the region and have no problem beating out another “local” business in an area in which they are not located.

Right now they have a strangle hold on Springfield. Try asking some simple questions to the city building department like “do I need to put sprinklers in a building I am thinking of renting” and they will tell you to go hire a local architect to get the answer.

Mike Cook
Springfield

SHOCK AND A-h-h-h-h-h...

I am shocked by those who vote against their own best interests. I am shocked by union workers who belong to a gun club that contributes millions to a political party that has declared war on unions. I am shocked by veterans who support that same gun club
while it persists in running ads with seditionist language against the federal government.

Have you toured the cemetery lately where hundreds of young men who lost their lives in the first civil war are buried? Follow the money. What a country we would have if that ad money was donated to food pantries or Medicaid expansion. What if the ad money was used to promote economic growth so we would not have to fight over nickels? Any and all of these things would promote economic growth instead of harming it as those ads do. We would truly have a nation with liberty and justice for ALL.

Jan Lancaster
Springfield