Lindenwood University likes to claim it's private, but at $22,305 per year to attend the school, many of the students are taking taxpayer money in one way or another to pay such exhorbitant tuition to go to the private school.

It was also convenient of Mayor Mark Eckert and Co. to condemn Westview Baptist Church across from the campus so Lindenwood could get it on the cheap.

Leonard "Bud" Argus

Belleville