RICHARD LYONS

Dear News Hours Friends, Normally we watch and learn from all of the News Hour, but we don't understand the use of the time for the "West News". It seems like a fast read of news from everything west of Washington D.C. and it passes too fast and without the thoughtful analysis that usually goes with your News Hour. The only news from the west tonight that I heard, though due to the speed, I might have missed something, was a short mention of a hospital group in California, I think. To me, who lives in the Seattle Area, you need to choose two or three issues and delve deeply into them. More on Boeing's legal and technical future; development of a special shelter called "Mary's Place" by Amazon; frightening possibility of allowing Old Growth Timber harvest in Alaska; The Native American call for removal of large and important dams on the Lower Columbia River. You can find this kind of important real western issues in all the Western States by in depth study of the local newspapers and choose three or less topics that you can cover carefully. So if this is what this part of the program really is, make it in depth and important to the residents of the western states, not a flash-by international news cast as it was tonight. Thank You. We have appreciated you for years, so keep up the good work. Sincerely, Elizabeth Lyons