TCU leadership is doing the right and difficult thing to fight coronavirus

Doing right in a hard time

Thank you to Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price, TCU Chancellor Victor Boschini and TCU athletic director Jeremiah Donati for making tough decisions that no previous leaders have faced. Kudos to the coaches and staff throughout the sports world and TCU for helping their athletes through this difficult time. Thank you for all you have done to make Fort Worth a safer city for our residents and TCU a safer university for its students.

Also, a shout-out to retired TCU athletic staff members Jack Hesselbrock and Frank Windegger. Hesselbrock, who recently retired as senior associate athletic director for sport management, started as a student 36 years ago and was in athletic administration for 30 years. Windegger spent 45 years as a TCU athlete, coach and athletic director. Thank you for all you have done for TCU.

- Richard Sybesma, Fort Worth

The writer is the retired longtime TCU swimming coach.

Inconsiderate of seniors’ needs

As an 81-year-old with some physical problems, I recently went to the grocery store during the 7-9 a.m. time frame designated for senior citizens.

My local Tom Thumb was fairly crowded, and I asked the checker if it was always this busy during the senior time. The answer was no. Younger people come during the designated time because they think the store puts more items on the shelves for seniors.

This is not true, and workers are disappointed at the disrespect shown for our older neighbors. I am, too.

- Gil Williams, Mansfield

No Siers cartoons for me

Do you realize how petty, sophomoric, politically partisan and unprofessional Kevin Siers’ editorial cartoons make you look? Why is it necessary to depict the president with a fat face and tiny hands? The Star-Telegram should be ashamed for publishing Siers’ work.

- Ron Brown, Fort Worth

It’s all about the fame

No longer is there any question about the president’s motivation. While thousands of Americans lie sick and dying, he monitors and celebrates the ratings for his televised briefings. How pathetic.

- Alan Abeson, Fort Worth

Trump obviously has this

Please, you “Never Trumpers,” stop complaining. Be thankful we have a successful businessman in leadership rather than a career politician. He knows how to face downturns as well as upswings. He also knows how to assemble experts to advise us. To the author of a critical letter Thursday (9A): If you don’t like President Donald Trump’s daily briefings, don’t turn them on. You are destroying yourself by harboring such hate.

I’m grateful to hear what the experts say daily, as I worry about our country and our world.

- Anna Clayton, Granbury

He was warned in January

I had a good chuckle over a Thursday letter to the editor that praised President Donald Trump’s handling of the pandemic, musing, “Can you imagine the predicament we’d be in had he lost the election four years ago?”

If Hillary Clinton were president, we wouldn’t be in this situation. She wouldn’t have rambled on about some “miracle” making the pandemic disappear. We needed a leader to get out in front of this, not lag behind it, as Trump has done.

- Elizabeth Tye, Arlington