No mold for me
Editor, The Commercial:
Mold is abundant in nature. Without it, we couldn’t have pizza, fondue or cheeseburgers, though it seems unlikely the kind of mold found indoors would make for a very healthy cheese.
The fuzzy visitor, which is easy to spot on walls and ceilings, also gives us Legionnaires’ disease and no end of respiratory worries. When it appears in a home or office, it is not something to ignore, unless it’s not your home or office and there are more pressing matters, like not paying employees or haggling over which roads not to fix with all that casino tax money.
Any such ignored threat at a courthouse might return with teeth if it leads to filings that will be adjudicated in cleaner courtrooms. A friendly consultant may dismiss the matter as less than urgent, but that would be foolhardy advice: a Texas county had to shell out $750,000 in August because it had seen fit to ignore just such a problem instead of paying $2 million to fix the A/C.
Independent reporting for Pine Bluff & Jefferson County since 1879.
The eventual outlay didn’t include the added cost and inconvenience associated with closing offices for extended periods while shifting operations and employees to safer surroundings.
So what? It’s still not in my office. Have some pizza.
D.H. Ridgway,
Pine Bluff