Category Archives: Letters to the Editor
Renewables are good global business | Letters to the Editor | azdailysun.com
The Daily Sun on 4/26/17 carried an interesting article concerning China’s commitment to developing clean energy and maximizing efficiency of current technologies. The bottom line was that their actions represent… Read full letter: Renewables are good global business | Letters to the Editor | azdailysun.com
Continue readingTaxes for religious schools not right | Letters to the Editor | azdailysun.com
Our Founding Fathers separated church and state for a reason. They had witnessed “divinely inspired” monarchs brutally suppress new ideas and religious clerics torture and execute men of science. Those Source: Taxes for religious schools not right | Letters to the Editor | azdailysun.com
Continue readingRepresentatives Should Be Part of Climate Solution
Thirty-four members of Congress, with Republican Carlos Curbelo taking the lead, have formed the Climate Solutions Caucus, which looks to solve the climate crisis by invoking a carbon fee, a solution also being advocated by the Citizens Climate Lobby. Fossil fuels would be taxed at the source — oil wells, coal mines, natural gas fields […]
Continue readingDemand road fix in national parks | Letters to the Editor | azdailysun.com
As a former superintendent with the National Park Service in Arizona, I know the maintenance backlog at our national parks is indeed $11.9 billion. The NPS is required by Congress Source: Demand road fix in national parks | Letters to the Editor | azdailysun.com
Continue readingViolence Not Protected by First Amendment
The discussion of different beliefs and political philosophies should be encouraged in a free society, and especially at a university campus. But making threats of violence against university professors is reprehensible and not protected speech. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes opined “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire […]
Continue readingThorpe and Barton Not Representing Us
What kind of representative government do we have in Arizona? The state legislature recently passed bills to block citizen initiatives, making it nearly impossible for Arizonans to put their own laws before the voters. (Arizona Daily Sun, March 19, 2017) At the same time, we have representatives Bob Thorpe and Brenda Barton who won’t meet […]
Continue readingMeals on Wheels a Lifesaver
March 18, 2017 – Arizona Daily Sun I feel pretty strongly about lots of things in the Trump Budget. But the one that really hit hard, the one that shocked me and then made me cry and continues to make my blood boil was Meals on Wheels. My mother lived alone in a small Iowa […]
Continue readingFour Freedoms Under Attack
March 18, 2017 Arizona Daily Sun In the year of my birth, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that the “Four Freedoms” would guide the policies and actions of our country: • Freedom of speech • Freedom of worship • Freedom from want • Freedom from fear These are the values that helped us prevail […]
Continue readingMilitary Spending, Domestic Cuts – Wrong-headed
March 5, 2017 – Arizona Daily Sun Where does President Trump get his information? Yesterday, 3/2/17, he talked about “endless defense budget cuts” and the need for “improved defense” on the Gerald R. Ford nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Russia has one conventional powered aircraft carrier with less capabilities than the 10 nuclear powered U.S. carriers we […]
Continue readingWhy Not Medicare for All?
March 12, 2017, Arizona Daily Sun: Now that Ryancare has shown itself to be worse for the country than Obamacare, the experts are arguing who the proposed act hurts the most. My suggestion is that Trump adopt Medicare for ALL! He can call it Trumpcare and be a hero. We would finally have universal healthcare […]
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