Wait, Granger, Trump: Are you paying for the F-35 or the border wall?
An essential question about Trinity River Vision
I have long supported the Trinity River Vision project as an inventive and visionary solution to Fort Worth’s flooding potential. Our city has grown by leaps and bounds, and on paper, it is not hard to see why we need it.
One does have to wonder, however, how long we can go without implementing the solution before the flood it is supposed to prevent occurs. We have had some of the wettest years on record, resulting in area lakes being full for the first time in a decade.
Do we have a flooding problem of a magnitude this project is needed to prevent or not?
- Daniel J. Haase, Fort Worth
Granger/Trump message at odds with reality
In Saturday’s mail, I received a flier with a picture of an F-35 fighter on the front and a picture of Rep. Kay Granger with President Donald Trump on the back, alongside three bullet points: rebuilding our military, supporting veterans and fighting for Texas jobs.
But Saturday’s paper included an article about cuts to the F-35 to help pay for the border wall. Trump said Mexico would pay for the wall, but now it looks as if the residents of Fort Worth will help pay for it, while losing local jobs.
The F-35 is vital to the economy of Fort Worth. Where is Granger on this bad decision?
- John Edstrom, Fort Worth
It’s about personal decisions
In her column Friday, Cynthia M. Allen confuses being pro-life with being willing to intrude on a woman’s right to control her own reproductive system. (13A, “Democratic candidates: No room in party for pro-lifers”)
I am a pro-life Democrat. I cannot imagine a situation that would cause me to terminate the life of a viable fetus. But I don’t have the temerity or hubris to extend that belief to anyone else. And the state shouldn’t be permitted to impose that belief, either.
If you don’t like abortion, don’t have one.
- Rosemary C. Lindsey, Fort Worth
Find me one person ‘celebrating’
Where is Cynthia M. Allen hanging out? No one I know on the “progressive left” is “literally celebrating the destruction of humans in their earliest stages of existence.” What a horrible thing to say.
The pro-choice position is that abortion should be safe, rare and legal. I understand that your friends face a dilemma, but there is no reason to make false, hateful and demeaning accusations against the group they wish to be a part of.
- Karin Cagle, Fort Worth
Keep politics out of it, Mac
Thanks to Mac Engel, I can’t escape your hyper-partisanship even in the sports pages. He cannot resist taking shots at our president.
His Friday column on the Astros cheating scandal spoke of the “stupid “ comments by Astros owner Jim Crane. (1B, “Astros’ apologies provide laughter and little else”) But Engel couldn’t stop there, adding, ”Can’t knock him too much; this tactic has worked for our president quite well.”
If I can’t escape your liberal views in the sports section, your readership will be dropping by at least one more.
- Gary Pinkston, Arlington
Realities about Arlington taxes
Don’t drink the Kool-Aid on Arlington’s tax increase, folks. Once this tax goes into effect, it will never be withdrawn. Officials want you to pay to have old buildings torn down so developers can move in and build. Codes enforcement already allows the city to condemn the structures and tear them down.
Your property taxes will not go down. Don’t let them tell you that if the increase doesn’t pass, services might be cut. Save the tax increase for when we really need it.
- Howard Kotarski, Arlington
Please, don’t get rid of it
You are doing your elderly and longtime subscribers a terrible disservice by ending the Saturday paper. A lot of elderly people don’t have computers, and trying to read the paper on a cellphone is extremely frustrating.
The paper continues to get smaller and to cost more. I pray that you will reconsider this idea.
- Sandra Box, Fort Worth
This story was originally published February 18, 2020 at 5:00 AM.