Dear Editor: The smoking ban may be very useful in dealing with the downtown bar owners and the Tavern League. The city and the university spend an inordinate amount of time trying to find solutions to Halloween that will protect private property and public safety.
They may never have the right answers, but unless the tavern owners do then they had better assist the city and university.
Since the liquor sellers are really the only ones to profit from Halloween downtown, they need to bear the costs currently borne by property taxpayers as a whole.