Regarding the Thursday article, “Casino sign is too tall? Too bad”:
If there have not been any complaints yet then let me be the first to complain. There are no large billboards allowed visible from I-5 or any other interstate freeways or most major state highways in Washington. That is state law enacted in the 1960s after a hard-won battle with billboard companies. If you want to see how the interstates can become billboard alleys, parts of I-15 in Utah, parts of Missouri and parts of Idaho serve as examples of what happens with weak or non-existent laws.
Apparently a big loophole whereby Indian tribes can buy land and transfer it to trust status could turn many interstates in Washington into billboard alleys. That’s just not right, and if it really is an international issue then why couldn’t the government of any country, Iran for instance, buy land here and have it subject to its own laws rather than U.S. federal and state laws?
I’ll never visit the Stillaguamish casino as long as they have this “I don’t care what anyone thinks” attitude, and I’m not going to buy anything advertised on the billboards, either. The best outcome would be for the Stillaguamish Tribe to go bankrupt due to lack of customers, but I know that won’t happen.
Mark Cotter
Bothell
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