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What a royalty check!
I just want to thank Chesapeake Energy for the royalty check we received.Because the certified letter went undelivered on a Friday, I was left to speculate and fantasize for the next 16 hours about the unlimited ways to spend our good fortune. I called my mother-in-law in Ohio excited that we might have some extra money to take care of her in her senior years.The letter finally arrived on Saturday, and, much to our surprise, our windfall check was for $1!Oh, well — don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.I guess our sleepless nights with lights shining into our bedroom windows and the never-ending noise is a simple reminder that, if it seems too good to be true, it is. Our relatives across the country got a good laugh out of it at least.— Lynne Harmon, Fort WorthTalk radio fanAccording to Tim Madigan’s article on talk shows, they are bad, and we shouldn’t listen. (See: "Are media talkers stirring up a hornet’s nest?," Oct. 11) They tell us things that are incorrect or untrue.
For 60 years, I have watched the Star-Telegram slowly go downhill, getting more and more liberal and thinner and thinner. Now I can hardly bear to open it because all I get are liberal columns; the conservative side is sent to the online paper.For years, I listened to the Dems call George Bush every nasty name imaginable; he couldn’t do anything right, and the news media loved it.The TV news is so biased, along with most of the talk shows, I don’t turn them on.So where do I go? I listen to talk radio. It is informative, and I can finally get a conservative side. Yes, they get loud and yell, but that’s what I want to do when I hear or read one more thing that Obama has messed up or ignored.— Sharon Meshew, BedfordRR cargo alarmismSafe transportation of hazardous materials is not only a recent priority of American railroads. (See: "Railroads join efforts to cut risks of hazardous cargo," Oct. 11)In 1907, the Bureau of Explosives, a section of what is now the Association of American Railroads, issued the first rules for safe transportation of hazardous materials. In 1908, the Interstate Commerce Commission, now the Department of Transportation, adopted those rules.If the Star-Telegram article was intended to unnecessarily alarm readers, it was probably effective. This article about transporting chlorine included a photograph of seven tank cars near a hospital.Those tank cars were all low-pressure tank cars that could not be used to transport chlorine. Because chlorine is shipped as a liquefied gas under pressure, it must be loaded in special high-pressure tank cars.The article indicated that liquid chlorine becomes a gas when it is exposed to air. Actually, it becomes a gas when it is released from pressure, whether exposed to air or not.Almost all tank cars are owned or leased by shippers. Railroads only own tank cars they use to transport their own materials.
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