A star of human decency

Editor, Index-Tribune:

Terry Province’s “Other Voices” (10/24) comments make grateful reading. For me it’s helpful being reminded the study of economics was long known and considered as part of political science, studies of human choices.

The barren worries over numbers conveniently forgets a forward looking moral basis of necessary and legitimate social sharing represented in ideas like a “living wage.”

In our society so desperately polluted by “unearned increment,” resources purely achieved by speculation and often outright graft the simple and useful humanity of a living wage is the most modest of antidotes.

Reading of the passing of Donna Lewis who I really knew only slightly reminds one of the opportunities and obligations of citizenry. For me she was a star of human decency and our village is more than just a little poorer with her gone.

Ned Hoke OMD

Sonoma