This is in response to a guestview dated April 8 by Carol Crown.

In her op-ed, Crown is apparently in awe of the new Seneca Niagara hotel and lavishly praises the Seneca’s accomplishment.

She criticizes Frank Parlato’s opinion that the new 26-story, 604-room Seneca hotel building and the profit coming from it should have gone to the local American people of Niagara Falls. It should be paying taxes. It should be American-owned. Not owned by a foreign nation, because we have such poor leadership in Albany.

Crown, however, disagrees vehemently.

She writes referring to the Seneca hotel: “By the way, I don't care how it got there, but that new building downtown is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen rise from the doings of man on the good earth of Niagara Falls.”

Ms. Crown is awfully pleased when foreigners build grandiose structures. Very good. She should then be fairly agog at the goings on in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

However, I wish to remind her that, like the many new buildings in Niagara Falls, Ontario, the new Seneca-Niagara Hotel, which Ms. Crown calls a “new building downtown” is not located on the “good earth of Niagara Falls.”

True enough, that “good earth" upon which it sits used to be a part of Niagara Falls, N.Y., USA, but today it is on foreign soil, as Albany gave it away to a sovereign nation. Perhaps the correct way of saying it would be "the good earth of Seneca."

Albany, is the problem, Crown, and perhaps you should care how it got to be that only foreigners can build grandiose structures in our midst while the people in Niagara Falls N.Y. are virtually broke.

Shellene Reich

Niagara Falls