Three cheers for Mary Lou Reddick Public Library’s safe lending program
Keeping us reading through it
The Mary Lou Reddick Public Library in Lake Worth is showing great community spirit by continuing to serve patrons. The library is closed, but library card holders can reserve books online and pick them up. Three cheers for the library.
- Fletcher Phillips, Lakeside
Focus on the Texas positives
Your printing of Dana Milbank’s column about President Donald Trump’s failures in this crisis is nothing but inflammatory journalism and shows your obvious lean. (April 4, 6A, “How a bad situation became a catastrophe”)
Why don’t you publish something about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his hyperbole, asking for far more ventilators than the state is projected to need? Why don’t you print stories showing how our stay-at-home practices bent the curve and shifted the disease numbers and saved lives?
We are so lucky to live in Texas, where our governor will protect our borders and make sure we don’t let more of this disease be imported.
- Thomas Purgason, Arlington
Consideration for all seniors
I appreciate that many stores are opening to seniors before others can enter, but not all seniors rise so early. My suggestion to Costco and other stores is to open 9-10 a.m. for seniors. I don’t think others would miss out on anything by waiting a little longer to ravage the store so no one else can get toilet paper and sanitizing wipes.
- Nancy Williams, Fort Worth
Jerry Jones shows his priorities
Once again, Jerry Jones has demonstrated how desperate he is to win another Super Bowl with the signing of Aldon Smith. Jones does not care if he gets a championship by hook or by crook. In the case of Smith, it is with a crook.
- Daniel Kolb, Grapevine
I don’t need more news
I’m fondly recalling the days of my childhood, when TV news came on at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. and there were only four local stations. It is safe to assume that we have an extreme excess of news, sports and TV “journalists.” How much money could be deferred to relief efforts just from the salaries of the overly opinionated media?
I am empowered by my public school and graduate education to form my own judgments and opinions. I do not require hourly replays of the same newsworthy items.
How about it, media moguls?
- Paul Lowry, Fort Worth
They just keep going lower
I read the story Monday about scammers targeting Americans’ coronavirus relief checks. (6A, “IRS warns of scams targeting stimulus payments”) As a seasoned citizen, I am disgusted by anyone who would try to steal stimulus payments from innocent people. I hope there is a special room in hell to accommodate all the companies and people involved.
- Tim Tannheimer, Grand Prairie
How can anyone blame Trump?
I didn’t vote for President Donald Trump, but the briefings from him and his team reassures me that they are handling this crisis appropriately.
I am amazed when I read the letters from people who accuse the president of being more interested in his TV ratings than lives lost or call him racist because of the early travel ban but then say he was slow to respond.
It seems people prefer being spoon-fed their information by biased TV news. No governor, senator, House member or hospital system was prepared for this pandemic despite warnings over the past 10 years. It’s time to grow up and stop blaming the president.
- Jacqueline Barowitz, Grapevine