Letters: $4k to take out bamboo, it's hard to be an IU football fan, things to think on
It's hard to be an IU football fan
Why is it so hard to be an IU football fan? This has nothing to do with our ability to play football, any die-hard fan fully understands the travails on that front and 200 words wouldn’t scratch the surface. This mussing has to to with operational ineptness.
We promoted being the FIRST school of infomatics in the entire country and yet even with meager crowds 25,000-40,000 you cannot text, make a phone call or do any normal activity on your mobile device at a football game. At the Indy 500 with 300,000 plus you can, why not at the stadium?
IU corrals you to order food and beverage on line and yet guess what … it’s impossible — the lines are ridiculously long and the entire program is inept. Lastly, you can access Assembly Hall for restrooms, which is great, but they close an hour before kickoff and the Gestapo-like attitude if you are a minute late is incredulous. The oversight personnel are still in place the entire time the facility is “closed” so it makes no sense.
It’s hard to be a fan for numerous reasons but we are still showing up, why make it so difficult on your customers? It’s small thinking in a very big space.
Brent Hutton, Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina
More information on Medicare coverage
A recent column from Dr. Robert Stone of Medicare for All Indiana left out one very important fact. Original Medicare has 20% uncapped coinsurance, which kicks in after the annual deductible is paid. If you have only Original Medicare and your annual deductible has been paid, a $100 approved service has coinsurance of $20. If your approved service is $200,000 your coinsurance is roughly $40,000. If you have repeated issues or a major issue you could be ruined financially.
Medical expense is the leading cause of bankruptcy in America. You can learn more in the fine print sent annually in the publication Medicare and You (128 pages for 2023) available at www.medicare.gov.
Brad Erman, Bloomington
Bamboozled by the city
News spread as the city threatened citations and then substantial fines for yellow groove bamboo in the city. Not wanting to wait for a citation in the early winter when we would have difficulty finding someone to do the work, I quickly had our yard service tackle our sizable stand of yellow groove bamboo. After over a week’s work and an over $4,000 bill, the bamboo was gone.
Then we learned the city decided not to enforce the ban unless there were complaints. The irony is it was only after the bamboo was removed that neighbors commented on how they missed the beauty of the bamboo.
Now I wonder, will the city accept my over $4,000 invoice as payment for future property tax bills? After all, it was done under the city’s threat and supposedly for the city’s, not our, good.
Earl Luetzelschwab, Bloomington
Notable quotes shared
Notable quotes worth consideration ... "Men have been found to resist the most powerful monarchs and refuse to bow down before them but few indeed have been found to resist the crowd, to stand up alone before the misguided masses." (Hannah Arendt, 1906-1975)
Think Nazi Germany. How are the masses being persuaded today? Tomorrow? "What you excuse you enable. What you enable you encourage. What you encourage you empower. What you empower you embolden. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil."
Dan Lindsay, Bloomington
This article originally appeared on The Herald-Times: Letters: Why's it hard to be an IU football fan; cost to remove bamboo
