Stop whipping on our institutions

We need to stop whipping our local institutions. After all, they are all we have and most of them do a very good job.

We, the media, can find better ways to sell newspapers.

The most recent round of whipping was on Merced College. Yes, there may have been a better choice for the location of seminars, however we are sure they weren't the drunken orgies implied by one person who was quoted in the paper.

Merced College is not the only one who has felt the whip. On regular occasions the whip has been used. County government gets it and so does the city.

Mercy Hospital has felt the whip many times, despite its effort to bring better medical care to the community.

UC Merced has been like a sacred cow, but recently when Steven Kang resigned there was a hint in the front page story that his resignation was due to some underhanded means.

Other people have felt the whip, District Attorney Gorden Spencer was driven from town and Larry Morse has had to reread about his son multiple times from start to finish.

Dee Tatum, former CEO of the county caught the whip as did his successor.

In all fairness the use of the editorial pen should be like a sword with two edges.  One for those who do wrong, but when one for those who do right, and we should read about it too.

Our community suffers from many ills. It must take care of many people who are unemployed...not because they want to be unemployed but because there are no jobs and it is cheaper to live here than almost anywhere else in California.

Our community suffers from a lack of income, but there is no community that we know of, that is more generous when it comes to helping the needy.

Our community suffers from a lack of educational resources, but there is no people who would do more for their schools, and for such a poor community, it is amazing how often we have taxed ourselves to provide for better educational facilities.

Our community respects and admires its institutions and the people who work in them.

If there is any whipping to be done, let us look first at those outside our community who make the decisions which unfairly penalize us; because we are in the valley and because so many immigrants have chosen this place as home.

Turn the whip on the whippers, who are so blind that they can not see the sty in their own eye while they try to pick the splinter out of their neighbor’s eye.