We have heard much lately from the city administrator on the effects the tax cap would have on city services. If the line on spending had been met with some fiscal responsibility, we would not be faced with this choice. The money that is being squandered by City Hall to purchase overvalued land and buildings for ill-conceived city projects is mind-boggling.

One example of senseless spending is when the city spent well over $1 million to purchase the land, demolish the buildings, and construct the edifice at the entrance to Lewiston from the Longley Bridge.

So what did we get for our money?

A few garden hoses that are squirting water, only a supposed “place of pilgrimage” made of bricks and granite. Lewiston’s answer to Stonehenge.

Another example is when the city bought the land and building of a radiator shop on Lincoln Street, and moved that business to Canal Street. Then the city bought that and built a new shop for that business on outer Lisbon Street.

I feel bad for the proprietor of the radiator shop; after three times, he must be perplexed as to what to use for a business name on the letterhead of his billing invoices.

In times gone by, it was the peasants with pitchforks who rose up against any oppressor.

Lewiston needs a little of that rebellious spirit right now.

Jim Bossie, Lewiston

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