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Personal information security at riskWe as a country, both government and business, commit enormous resources to keep our computer systems and the data they contain safe from exposure. Now our current government has seen fit to open all its systems to a bunch of unvetted 20-somethings with no oversight or transparency, and it appears we are heading for the worst government-sanctioned hack of our personal data in modern history.Anthony LouieBethlehemDon’t let political labels divide AmericaA divided people is a weak people.
Our weakness is being used against us. As long as we don’t take responsibility to find a way to build bridges with people who have differing views but common concerns as we have, we continue to make ourselves vulnerable. It is a lie that “conservatives” and “liberals” are monoliths.
The labels “red states” and “blue states” — labels that, in kind, have been applied to local voting districts and neighborhoods — have done an outstanding job of imprisoning our collective psyche in that lie. The bedrock of democracy is the union of, by and for the people. We must free ourselves.
Christine M. CondonBethlehemSusan Wild was a voice for womenAs of July, 50.65% of the residents living in Pennsylvania are women.
I have been a U.S. citizen and a resident of Pennsylvania my entire life.
I have witnessed 14 men take the oath to the highest office in this country. I have never been represented by a woman in the Senate. However, I have had the privilege to have Susan Wild represent my district in the House of Representatives.
She made history back in 2018, when she was elected as the first woman to represent Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District. It gave women a new voice in Washington.I have followed her career over the last six years.
She provided weekly emails to her constituents, informing us of her work in Congress. She visited local businesses throughout the district to address their concerns and attended community events. Her priority was to the people she represented in her district.
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, she worked to protect women’s health care. She introduced a bill titled Access to Family Building Act, which would guarantee access to reproductive services, such as IVF treatments for couples.
Women lost their voice the day Susan Wild was not reelected.Ann LeeWhitehall TownshipAdministration should do analysis on climate change issueA Feb. 18 op-ed from a Philadelphia environmental nonprofit casually labels Energy Secretary Chris Wright as a “climate change denier.
” That’s a falsehood.Wright on many occasions has publicly stated, in speeches and in print, that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide contribute in some degree to the warming observed during recent decades. Like many reputable scientists, he questions whether the contribution of CO2 to that warming is large enough, and the reduction available through U.
S. climate policy are significant enough, to justify the vast expenditures and disruptions demanded by alarmists in the environmental nonprofits.The atmospheric physics around CO2 are better understood now than they were in 2009, when the Environmental Protection Agency defined it as a dangerous pollutant — in a process that was at least as much political as scientific.
The failure of intervening administrations — including Donald Trump’s during his first term — to perform a thorough and objective cost-benefit analysis on the issue has been a glaring dereliction of duty. Perhaps Wright and his colleagues will take on this political hot potato. It’s long overdue.
Peter O. WelshAllentownTrump’s actions on Kennedy Center deserve public outcryAmid all the democracy-shattering orders President Trump has issued, one has received minimal media attention. While most have worldwide and national significance, the fact that he fired the director of the Kennedy Center and took over the chairmanship of the board is chilling.
This deserves a public outcry along with his firing of critical government employees.When will America wake up? It is almost too lateMarie EverlethSouth Whitehall TownshipRussia’s aggression similar to Germany’s before World War IIIn March 1936, Germany remilitarized the Rhineland. In August 2008, Russia occupied Abkhazia and South Ossetia (in Georgia).
No one stopped Germany or Russia.On March 12, 1938, Austria was annexed as part of the German Reich. On March 18, 2014, Russia annexed Crimea (from Ukraine).
No one stopped them. In 1938, Hitler wanted part of Czechoslovakia, claiming the Germans living in Sudetenland were mistreated. Germany, Italy, Britain and France went to the Munich Conference (Czechoslovakia wasn’t invited).
On Sept. 30, 1938, the other countries agreed to cede Czech territory to Germany. England’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went home waving a piece of paper, claiming “peace in our time.
”On March 15, 1939, Germany invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia. Emboldened, Hitler demanded part of Poland. Poland refused.
On Sept. 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II.On April 12, 2014, Russia invaded eastern Ukraine and later annexed it.
On Feb. 24, 2022, Russia invaded the rest of Ukraine. In 1946, we prosecuted German leaders at Nuremberg for waging an unprovoked war of aggression.
Does the United States still stand by what we believed in 1946?David AmbroseMoore TownshipThank you for great newspaper contentI am on my third cup of coffee and just finished reading the Feb. 19 edition of my Morning Call newspaper. Yes, I am retired, and yes, I still read a paper delivered to my doorway.
It is a must-read edition. Sadly, so many of us get our news from fast clips on our electronic devices, selecting only the most sensational news, but by doing so, you are missing the essence of the written word.Kellie Walenciak’s Your View, “I’ve Benefited from DEI .
.. ,” rings clear.
The headline should be “DEI doesn’t replace merit — it reveals it.” Her piece is well written and informative as she describes her journey as a beneficiary of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, along with others.Moving on to David Brooks’ column.
“Stop calling these people populist” serves as an educational and historical lesson that helps us understand political terms and ideology. Conservatives, in particular, need to read this article. Are you a conservative or a nihilist? If you don’t know, look it up, or better yet, read this article.
Ann BrownLower Saucon TownshipThe Morning Call encourages community dialogue on important issues. Submit a letter to the editor at [email protected].
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