In response to “Taxes for All" which appeared in the Jan. 20-26 issue of North Country This Week and "Stop the Blame Game" which appeared in the Jan. 13-19 issue: I have read the “Blame Game” Sound Off and I don't see anything in it that denies that these institutions are tax exempt. The writer expressed an opinion regarding what they contribute to the Village of Potsdam. The "Taxes for All" Sound Off sounds like sour grapes. Maybe the writer is a landlord that cannot rent their properties. That may or may not be the result of universities building and offering housing to their students, which one might find is what students want (a place to live comfortably on campus.) Now, I don't know anything about the writer's properties or if they are a landlord in Potsdam. What I do know is that when my daughter returned to Potsdam to get her Masters (just a couple of years ago), we looked at many apartments in Potsdam together. What we found was that about 70 percent of them were in what I would call third world conditions, with slanting, creaking floors, dripping sinks, showers that were cobbled together with duct tape and hoses, and other awful conditions. She did eventually find a decent apartment to live in. Maybe these conditions are part of why students seem to prefer life on campus.