1 week Ago By Letters to the Editor
I was deeply disappointed to learn that Stanford Children’s Hospital is a major sponsor of the , a group that on athletic fields. Given the hospital’s commitment to children’s health and well-being, this support seems counterintuitive. Numerous studies have highlighted the .
Artificial turf fields contain chemicals that can harm children through touch or inhalation. These chemicals also leach into the environment and pose risks to water quality and ecosystems. Additionally, artificial turf are heat islands, leading to increased temperatures and air pollution.
And it coats our Earth with nonrecyclable plastic. It is concerning that Stanford Children’s Hospital would support a practice that endangers the very children they are dedicated to serving. I urge the hospital to reconsider its position and prioritize the long-term health and safety of our community.
Re: “ ” (Page A6, Sept. 5). Simply disagreeing with the tax policies of Kamala Harris does not make her unfit to be president.
On the other hand, being an and should make someone entirely unfit to serve in the Oval Office Our corporations are not being overtaxed; they are making . The so-called “death tax” is , and it only applies to people with an actual estate to bequeath. Taxing “ ” is quite fair because the extremely wealthy do not actually earn any wages.
Why shouldn’t someone with incredible wealth and massive disposable income pay the same percentage in taxes as the middle class? It must be great to have enormous wealth and receive all the benefits that taxes provide but rely on loopholes, tax shelters and lobbyists to avoid paying their fair share. Kamala Harris has made abortion a premier issue. However, the United States already has of younger people.
China has already shown that limiting population creates serious problems. If abortion becomes even more common, birth rates will increasingly drop. This will reduce the pool of working taxpayers who are needed to expand the already bloated welfare state.
Is this wisdom? Thinking people do not vote for Harris. Re: “ ” (Page A6, Sept. 6).
Regarding Condoleezza Rice as presidential material, she had her leadership opportunity. As secretary of state, Rice gave face to the Bush administration’s false assertion that Iraq had (or soon would have) weapons of mass destruction. This falsehood justified the go-to-war strategy of President George W.
Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and war strategist/intellectual Paul Wolfowitz. For her part, Rice stared Americans in the face and , “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” Take a look around and see where we are now.
The lie-induced Iraqi war cracked the Middle East. Rice owes Americans 10 years of silence, not tenure in the White House. Republican vice presidential nominee “lamented that school shootings in the U.
S. have become ‘a fact of life.’“ It should not be a fact of life.
What cowardly resignation. But that does not surprise me, given that the Republican ticket lacks backbone and leadership to deal with this national disgrace. They continue to defend the NRA and the gun lobby while spouting “thoughts and prayers.
” Banning assault weapons and standing up to these lobbies is a huge first step in dealing with this national disgrace. However, that requires common sense and courageous leadership — things that are clearly lacking with Vance, Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans. Once again, we are hearing of the horrific experiences of schoolchildren due to the negligence of our country to create stricter gun control laws.
Related Articles The events at Apalachee High School on Sept. 4 show the terrible reality we live in. School should be a place where every student feels safe and protected, but that has not been the case for decades in our country.
Children should not have to carry the burden of frequent active shooter drills or live through school shootings in an environment where they are supposed to flourish as individuals. We need to be a country open to change for the betterment of our society and the safety of our children. Be the voice of the children who suffered from gun violence in a supposed safe place.
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