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McMahon is a wolf in sheep’s clothing The U.S. Senate must reject Linda McMahon’s nomination to serve as U.
S. Secretary of Education. As we saw in the U.
S. Senate confirmation hearing, Linda McMahon lacks the qualifications, experience and judgment required to oversee our nation’s education system. The Secretary of Education should champion public schools, protect our students from discrimination, and ensure equal opportunity for all students and educators.
Linda McMahon has no experience making decisions about K-12 education, student loans, or IEPs and special education — key qualifications to running the Department of Education. Her would-be boss has called for the elimination of the entire department! We need an Education Secretary who we can trust to protect and uplift all students. I urge our Senators to vote NO on this nomination rather than hiring the wolf to guard the sheep.
Joan Tomek, Erie Renaming the gulf is dangerous This dustup about what to call the Gulf of Mexico goes far beyond the label you see on Google Maps. Millions of people have their lives and property threatened every year by hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. Ambiguity over what to call that body of water will at some point result in confusion over the expected future course of a hurricane.
As a result, someone will not take the appropriate preparations, and people will die. James Ramer, Boulder Trump is destroying our public lands I don’t know if people are watching, but our public lands are under a flurry of threats from our current President. Upon taking office, he issued executive orders that are an obvious threat to the lands many of us cherish and seek to protect.
One such order reverses Biden’s protection and opens offshore drilling, in the Arctic and elsewhere. Recently, he nominated a Denver–based oil and gas lobbyist, Kathleen Sgamma to lead the Bureau of Lands Management. And Trump will be reviewing a list of public lands, very likely including ones in Colorado, that will probably either eliminate or reduce their acreage.
And yes, he is also making it more difficult to designate protected lands like national monuments. Please, keep watching! These executive orders are his play-tool that will destroy our lands. Jen Cornell, Boulder ‘Unproductive: In Support of Civil Servants’ I am a proud former ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park , and I recently wrote the following poem on the ongoing assault on our dedicated civil servants who protect our national parks and forests.
The included quote references an email sent to employees to try to push them to accept DOGE/Musk’s buyout. And now the mass firings in the U.S.
Forest Service and National Park Service have begun. If you care about these places, it is time to make your voice heard. And then go outside and enjoy our public lands, a wonderful shared heritage and a gift worth fighting for.
“Unproductive: In Support of Civil Servants” Said the richest man to ever live to the civil servants, “The way to American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector.” To save a life on mountainside or river’s edge? / Unproductive. / To educate? To inspire? / Unproductive.
/ To build trails for the enjoyment of the people? / Unproductive. / To fight wildfire? / Unproductive. / To protect forests, fish, birds, plants, four-legged things.
/ Unproductive. / To make magic? / A memory: me, an elk, a child. A life forever changed.
/ Perhaps two. Perhaps three. / Unproductive.
Elsewhere in government...
/ Clean water. Air to breathe. Safe food, medicine, factories.
Housing and health. Roads and bridges. Air traffic control.
/ Unproductive. He, unelected, knows better. / It’s all / Unproductive.
400 billion dollars and still chasing more “productivity.” / He may need that elk, bugling among the shimmering aspen, more than that child ever did. / But that would be, / Unproductive.
The heart, however, knows that service is a highest calling. We, the American masses, see you, thank you, need you. / For you have something he does not, despite the hoarded billions: / Caring and a calling beyond oneself.
Adam Auerbach, Boulder.
