To the Editor:
    Regarding your article "Taxpayers shocked at re-evals", I read with anticipation, then utter disappontment. 
    Neighbors and friends, like me, had our home values adjusted upwards.  These homes had already been properly valued last year. 
    According to Robert Shiller, of the Case-Shiller index, home values nationwide dropped approximately 30 percent during the Great Depression. 
    The Case-Shiller 20 city index shows that as of June, 2009, home prices have dropped over 30 percent from 2006 levels. 
    The question that your writer did not ask or address-How in the world can Madison home values go up while the national average shows a decline worse than the Great Depression? 
    Maybe your reporter could check home sales in Madison for 2008, and compare with appraisal values? 
    The article did not inform much-please try again.
Carlos Serrate
Madison
Via e-mail

To the Editor:
    The Morgan County Retired Educators Associators would like to give a big and heartfelt thanks to Rena Holt and the merchants of Rutledge and Madison for the items that filled a beautiful basket for our State Conference on May 6 to May 8, 2009.  This basket was used in the auction sponsored by the History Committee.
    Again, thanks and we hope we can count on you all again.
    You just don’t know how much that meant to us.
Clarice Woods
President, Morgan County Retired Educators Association
Via e-mail

To the Editor:
    Regarding the letter from Dave Belton, I would like to illustrate his economy with the truth, replacing principle with political bias.
    Mr. Belton stated, “our President who told adoring masses in the Middle East that whatever we once were, America is no longer a Christian nation.”

To the Editor:

To the Editor:

To the Editor:
While visiting in Madison recently, I picked up a copy of the Morgan County Citizen. I really enjoyed reading it until I got to the page that screamed out “The Politics of Hate” by Celia Murray.