COLUMN: Cause for concern

Bill Brooks’s column reminds me of the columns we used to write in our junior high newspaper, though we were better writers. Normally I ignore his modern day version of the Salem Witch Trials but I caught sight of the RV story and was shocked at what modern day column writing has become. Did he really mean to imply that a company should question whether an older adult should be allowed to make a purchase? Does he have a questionnaire he gives senior citizens in order to sell them a house? How does he determine if they are competent to enter into that kind of contract? That seems like it really flirts with discrimination to me but then if he is as good a real estate agent as he is a writer, there is nothing to worry about.

CATHERINE MATHESON

Coeur d’Alene