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After reading the latest Washington Daily News story on the City Council discussing possibly outsourcing the police department’s dispatching duties to the county, I would like the Daily News to do a story comparing the sheriff’s office and police department. How much money will really be saved and at what cost to public safety?

I am glad you are moving Sound Off to different pages in the paper. I get to read more of the paper now. I used to just read Sound Off and the obituaries, but now when I search for Sound Off I actually read more of the paper.

With all the doom and gloom about education cuts, I thought the lottery was going to save education. Where is the education lottery money going?

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