Why is the City Council not doing its job?
For the past several weeks, the call to the council has been Gaza vs. Israel. Now, a resolution may go to the study session. Our council, all Democrats, are NOT toeing the party line. Our Democratic President has put on the table, as well as Israel, peace initiatives that bring the hostages home. Hamas has rejected it. Why are you working on an agreement against your own party? We have more important issues like an $18 million deficit in our city budget. What does an agreement prove? What a waste of time. Please consider no resolution and just do the government work we elected you to do. Support your party and our President. This is soapbox diplomacy. Just stop this. You have the authority to do so. It undermines the President. Show up at council on April 9 to voice your concerns.
Andrew Kunsberg
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Aerial view of the proposed Rosemont Mine/Copper World site planned by Hudbay Minerals Inc. in the Santa Rita Mountains, southeast of Tucson, on May 11. The flight was coordinated by the Center for Biological Diversity and carried out by EcoFlight. Hudbay is doing grading and land clearing on private lands it owns there and eventually plans four open pits. The site also includes roads that existed before Hudbay’s work began.
Copper World dangers
Hudbay Corporation’s 2022 Preliminary Economic Study for the proposed Copper World mine complex details their plans to use sulfuric acid to process copper ore. It’s seldom mentioned or publicized, but millions of gallons of excess acid will be produced, which will be transported by truck from the mine site for resale. How will Hudbay respond to hazmat spills near the many schools, businesses and homes along the haul route? Another East Palestine, Ohio scenario? Mass evacuations? Or, once the trucks leave the mine, they are no longer their responsibility? Does this sound like a good idea to anyone living in Pima County or to the emergency responders that have to clean it up? What’s more important, a few hundred jobs and Hudbay’s profits or our safety, health, public welfare and tourism?
Ruined views forever, heavy truck traffic, toxic dust, toxic spills, toxic stormwater runoff, draining and polluting our aquifer; the dangers from this ill-conceived mine menace just keep piling up!
For more disturbing facts, visit www.rosemontminetruth.com.
Rick Johnson
Sahuarita
Unrealistic oversimplication of global issues
Re: the March 25 letter “Bidenflation.”
This letter oversimplifies a global issue, laying blame at the feet of President Biden. The letter writer laments the rising cost of eggs and finishes with, “Looking back, eggs were consistently priced while Trump was in office.”
On the same day was a story on the declining numbers of seals and sea lions globally. Root cause? Avian flu. Quote: “The worldwide bird flu outbreak that began in 2020 has led to the deaths of millions of domesticated birds and spread to wildlife all over the globe.”
So, is the root cause for the rising cost of eggs Bidenomics or a global flu outbreak that has killed millions of chickens that lay those eggs?
Like so many of the challenges we face, this is a complicated issue. We run risk if we oversimplify a complicated world. Needed is a broader lens to assess the safest, most accurate and fact-based path forward.
Jennifer Jones
Downtown
Is America for sale to the highest bidder?
As a registered voter in Arizona, I am deeply concerned about our country’s future! Has anyone really thought about the price of another Trump presidency?
North Korea, China and Russia, among others, only care about our demise. They will all contribute to another Trump presidency. They will own Trump, and the price we will pay will be the end of democracy as we know it. Beware of false prophets! Our country’s soul is at stake.
President Biden is a good man with only love for our country. Choose wisely.
Pamela Fauxbel
Green Valley
Border chaos
Re: The March 25 editorial cartoon by Al Goodwyn
The cartoon depicted President Biden sitting on a switch marked “executive action,” implying he could “throw a switch” at any time and use executive action to stop undocumented immigration, but refused to do so.
This is simply untrue. 8 U.S. Code 1158 says, “Any alien who is physically present in the United States, irrespective of such alien’s status, may apply for asylum in accordance with this section.”
Last month, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation that would have increased funding to screen asylum seekers and significantly strengthened border security, but on orders from Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson refused to give the bill a hearing because Trump didn’t want President Biden have a “win” on the border issue.
Trump and the House Republicans don’t want the border crisis solved because it’s such a good issue for them.
Roger Voelker
Southeast side
You said it, you own it
Re: the March 22 letter “Why would any woman vote Republican?.”
Last week, I read a letter to the editor that quoted a response from Arizona State Senator Sonny Borelli regarding whether he would oppose efforts to restrict access to emergency contraceptives. His response was, “Like I said, “women should not need contraceptives because Bayer invented aspirin.” He continued, “Put it between your knees.” It was vulgar, archaic, disrespectful, disdainful and so very misogynistic. Maybe he thought this was an amusing reply. It was not. Most women were not laughing. I found it insulting.
Perhaps the women in District 30 felt the same way.
What kind of man who swore an oath to stand up for and represent his constituents, makes such an uncaring and callous remark? What other things will he be willing to take away from women? We can’t be sure, but we now know what he is willing to say. Our reply is that thousands and thousands of women and men say this: “We will remember in November,” Mr. Borrelli. You can count on that!
Sally Mayersohn
Northwest side
Why I will be voting for Jette
It is so disappointing and unsettling to learn that Pima County Attorney Laura Conover engaged in unethical and unprofessional conduct and has to be monitored by the State Bar for a year to make sure she completes remedial classes and modifies her behavior. I supported Conover in the last election and had high hopes. But we continue to learn more about the problems she has retaining staff in her office and now this! The good news is that there is an election coming up in July, and we can vote her out. I recently learned that a lawyer named Mike Jette is running for County Attorney. He is challenging Conover in the July Democratic primary. Mr. Jette is an experienced, ethical prosecutor with an unblemished professional record. This is why I will be voting for Mike Jette for County Attorney.
Kathleen McNaboe
Downtown
What really matters
Our school system is giving up and starting to shut down. I have nothing good to say about Tom Horne, but if you look at the big picture, he is a symptom but not the problem.
In Arizona, we treat education like waste treatment or prisons. It’s something that must be dealt with, but spend as little time or money as possible.
We need to start over. We need a leader that wants to make things better. Most of all, we need to change our mindset to a good education for everybody is a good future for everybody.
Spend the money, support the staff and keep politics and religion out of schools.
The goal would be to have a state that all teachers would want to work in. Maybe try paying $10,000 off their college debt or paying a retirement fund for every year they teach in Arizona.
Robert McNeil
Midtown
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