Letters to the Editor for July 19
Where’s the fiscal responsibility?Re: the June 20 article “Bill that could slow renewable energy vetoed.”
Which is more fiscally responsible: spending $165B per year on damages or $37B per year for mitigation and prevention? Allowing climate disasters to keep worsening or taking positive action to lessen them?People are also reading… With 8 in 10 US adults reporting they have personally felt the effects of extreme weather in the past five years, it’s time Arizona Republicans realize they and their families are among them.
Other 2nd Amendment-preservation ideas for legislatures: law enforcement “response-time contests” with large monetary prizes, withholding of funds to states and communities that try to regulate firearms, subsidies to communities for the training and arming of teachers and designated older students, and distribution of miniature gun lapel pins to all school children.
I believe politicians and preachers should stay out of our bedrooms and our exam rooms. Respect a mother’s freedom to choose what happens to her own body.TEP foot-draggingRe: the July 15 article “Corporate morals and regulatory negligence.” That’s why I’m speaking out to oppose the Biden EPA’s latest proposal to create more regulatory red tape governing a class of fine particulates known as PM2.5. What the EPA proposes will kill jobs and hurt agriculture, manufacturing and other industries that are central to our economy in rural Arizona while doing very little to improve public health.
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