Letters to the Editor for March 3
Liars and the lies they tellThanks to the Dominion voting machine lawsuit we now know that the so-called “journalists” at Fox News, Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham, et al, and their employer knew full well that there was no merit to Trump’s claims that the 2020 election results were fraudulent, yet they pushed the lie constantly on television.
FICO, the pecan farmer in Sahuarita, uses on average 20,000 acre feet of water per year. That’s 6.5 billion gallons of water to produce a few million pounds of pecans. The proposed Copper World project by Hudbay plans to use less than 6,000 acre feet of water and will create thousands of new jobs and billions in economic activity. The economic output and number of jobs at a pecan farm don’t come anywhere close to what a copper mine will produce.
I applaud the writer for his enthusiastic support of continuing the very popular free transit policy, which was adopted by our Mayor and Council almost three years ago. By doing so, our elected officials made transit in Tucson a public good, similar to roads, police, fire, parks and schools, i.e., no one can be excluded from using transit.
Annually, the city has a total revenue of well over $500 million, compounded with annual increases. The task is to either find less than 2% of that revenue or find other revenue sources to underwrite the annual operations budget.
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