Fully functional

Frank Watson ("How to Improve our Country" Aug. 30), you make an excellent suggested use of a windfall, using it to increase the development of alternative energy sources and more fully recyclable packaging. However, you lose the argument by suggesting we stop investigating the alleged undermining of our democracy by our current president. Without a fully functional democracy, we would be far less likely to achieve your sustainability goals.

Toward the democracy goal, as reported in last week's Whitman County Gazette, the Pullman Chapter of The League of Women Voters is holding a voter registration drive on Sept. 12, from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. in Terrell Hall on the WSU campus.

--Mark Olson, Seattle