IN YOUR VIEW: Traffic, the TEA visits & organic milk

As Odessa’s population grows and the city expands to the northeast, residents and businesses are running into issues concerning drill sites.

• Melissa Archer Howell: The population is growing and the city is expanding because of the drilling.
• Cresencio Aguilar: Odessa-Midland is the next metroplex!
• Jessica Fajardo: ‎:/ I miss when Odessa was small and there wasn't horrid traffic. We get bigger businesses expand our school's get crowded but the schools stay small and teachers are overwhelmed with large classes. Expanding our schools should be what wr need to focus on.

The Texas Education Agency plans to intervene in both Ector County and Midland school districts next week due to some deficiencies in their programs, but both districts said they are ready for the visit.

• David Conway: The lord high and mighty school administrators should eat plenty of humble pie after this visit from the TEA. I know the administrators will cowardly shift blame for their failures on those "Awful teachers" that complain and resign because of all the micromanaging from these rear echelon warriors.
• Linda Butler Duralia: There sure needs to be a lot of intervention into this ECISD disfunctional system
  TroyMelissa Sparks: ECISD needs a lot of help! I can not speak for OHS but Permian is awful!

An outbreak of bacterial infections on the East Coast illustrates the popularity of raw, unpasteurized milk despite strong warnings from public health officials about the potential danger.

• Amy Bailey Bower: Lies... Raw Milk is GOOD for you unlike the milk pumped full of hormones.
• Marc Benigno: raw UNPASTEURIZED milk is dangerous.
• Melissa Archer Howell: Milk is good for you if consumed in the right amounts. Besides what are you going to eat cereal with?

Pecos joined Fort Stockon in banning companies and residents from using single-use plastic bags in the town. Do you think Odessa should adopt something similar?

• Linda Luvw Belk: No!! It's an individual decision not the nannies of the city government to determine what sacks I use. I actually prefer paper rather than plastic myself.
• Fernando Ravílob: That's a great idea! Leaving the choice to individuals is great, until you realize they're too lazy to pick it up off the Walmart parking lot when they drop it.
• Jimmy Maddox: Absolutely!! Come take a look in the field across from my house!!!
• Brittany Luedecke Sawyer: I reuse all of my plastic grocery bags. I think banning them is a gross misuse of power and infringes on personal rights as well as rights of retailers to choose which types of bags best suit their business.