Does Edward Achorn have any other thoughts besides a container port at Quonset Point as a viable economic-development plan? Seems all he writes about is how NIMBYs have prevented this glorious solution to all of Rhode Island’s problems.

Most Rhode Islanders recognize that, because of the U.S. balance of trade, containers arrive but never leave, since we import far more than we export. Ports all over the Eastern Seaboard are littered with empty and unusable containers piling to the sky and rusting. How can this problem be avoided? I dare The Journal to print photos of those ports with their container junkyards.

Let’s not forget that, should we follow Achorn’s advice, many an unwanted species of plant, animal and marine creature would also arrive at our shore and despoil our environment. Does he have a workable solution to this issue? I suppose our economy would grow by creating new jobs to eradicate these pests. Boy, that’s some growth proposal.

We need more than a one-trick-pony position out of our major newspaper’s deputy editorial-pages editor if we are going to find solutions to our economic problems. What other ideas has he for improving economic development and how to use Quonset, if not as a container port?

ROBERT TORMEY

Jamestown