Mailbag: Smart meters are an invasion of privacy

What is happening to Glendale Water & Power?

These smart meters will infringe upon our privacy even more, and as an American citizen, I don’t want to receive a letter telling me that their “new smart meter” that was installed zeroed in on my wash day, and that I could have reduced my wash water intake by washing the whites and darks together in one load! Or that I left two lights on instead of one while on vacation. I certainly don’t live in a socialistic country yet, nor do I want to.

If we need to build more dams, then why haven’t we? Year after year, we become less free, because our elected officials ignore the real solutions to our energy and water problems. We need our tax money to be used more wisely, creating ways to save these trillions of gallons of rainfall that have been forever lost and wasted.

What we don’t need is another created “bureaucracy department” to grade its consumers, and if these smart meters are going to infringe upon our privacy even more, these departments will flourish. My home is my “castle,” so I resent “big brother” wanting to move in with me! And it saddens me that everyone is going along with it.

We need real and long-lasting solutions to solve this crisis, not one that is designed to control each and every household. This plan just chips away more of what’s left of our freedom.

EDWINA L. HUGHES

Glendale

What happened to the timing?

It is with relief that the construction project on Grandview Avenue and Kenneth Road in Kenneth Village has finally come to an end.

It seems, however, that there is now another problem at this intersection. On a recent evening driving west on Kenneth Road, I found myself in a line of 10-plus cars stopped at the red light. It subsequently took the duration of three green lights for me to get through the intersection. The next day, with a stopwatch in hand, I timed each green and red light at the intersection. The Grandview green light (Grandview Avenue heading north and south) lasted about 30 seconds. The Kenneth green light (Kenneth Road heading east and west) lasted about 17 seconds.