Hey, Ed, there’s never anything negative in your BackTalk column about Bencivengo, and I’d like to know why. His salary is going up and my taxes are going up. Why doesn’t he take a challenge from us senior citizens and lower his pay, lower than Mayor Gilmore’s, and lower his cabinet’s salaries because we’re in such a bad time in Hamilton, we owe so much money. And what about buying all this new equipment? Did they ever hear of fix and repair daily?

Hamiltonian

How ’bout it, Mayor: Would you and your cabinet members be willing to take a cut in salary? And what about applying some of the windfall in school state aid toward tax relief?— Ed. Note