Enough noise over wood smoke

It seems the Daily Herald continues to be a personal soapbox for Mr. Kenneth D. Dubinski with his nearly weekly letters about wood burning stoves.

They have become redundant and appear to be an outlet for a personal pet peeve. Now you have given him front-page coverage and again shown how biased your newspaper really is.

It's ironic, but the stories and letters you print from Mr. Dubinski actually promote what he is against. The next fire I start in my legal outdoor fire pit will be ignited with a rag I call the Daily Herald.

My family and I are also forced to breathe unhealthy air on a daily basis. Yes, I would venture to say that everyday life is a danger.

From household detergents, cleaners, disinfectants, to the even more toxic auto emissions, chemical spewing industrial parks and ground level ozone. How about it? Let's just ban existence!

There is an ever growing disease in this country that hides behind the "rights of people" banner that wishes to ban anything and everything it doesn't approve of.

It encourages governments -- federal, state, county and municipal -- to "protect' the people and save them from themselves!

Let's face it. Americans are slowly having their individual freedoms stripped from them in the name of the politically correct.

There are many more serious problems to be solved in the world. The evils of wood burning stoves are not one of them.

If you need a cause to feel useful, find one of them and go for it, but please stop cluttering the editorial pages.

Mitch Gora

Elk Grove Village