I helped pay for Globe Life Field, and I have to pay to see it?
Seniors who get better
Every day, we see the daily update of new cases and the death count from COVID-19 in Tarrant County. Almost all deaths are older citizens. So we’re hanging on day by day to see when our turn is coming.
How about printing how many seniors contracted the virus and recuperated? It might make some of us feel better to know that contracting the virus is not necessarily a death sentence.
- Donn Caldwell, Fort Worth
Keep the loony left out
Newspapers are struggling — we all know that. The Star-Telegram even asked for money to help continue operations. A few letters have been printed asking you to ease up on the liberal commentary. And yet on May 16, you printed a screed from Harvey Wasserman, who is far out in left-loony land. (6A, “Nation must prepare now to vote by mail”)
There are plenty of good columnists and reporters, but if you want to keep only half your readers, publishing commentary from writers like Wasserman is one way to do it.
- Jeff Murray, Weatherford
How you look at numbers
One of the big issues with the coronavirus reopening debate is that both groups are correct from their points of view. If you’re comparing more than 90,000 deaths to zero or have friends and family who died, the number is massive. It’s just that if you consider the U.S. population of 330 million, it’s about .03% of the total.
As more becomes known about who’s most at risk and how better to treat the effects of the virus, there’s no reason things can’t start reopening in a sensible way.
For instance, a Dallas Cowboys game could have 30,000 fans in attendance rather than the usual 90,000 but not be shut down altogether.
- Thomas Reagan, Arlington
Dangers of mail-in voting
A Tuesday letter writer (10A) is right that military voters don’t cheat with mail-in ballots, but what about the corrupt officials handling those ballots? Perhaps she has forgotten that Democratic election officials in Florida in 2000 made a concerted effort to throw out overseas military ballots on technicalities, fearing they would favor George W. Bush. Republicans had to go to courts to get those ballots counted.
Mail-in ballots open the door to “ballot harvesting” from senior centers and retirement homes. The collectors typically have party affiliations and are being paid.
- James R. Anderson, North Richland Hills
Another charge for taxpayers
So, beginning in June, I can pay the Texas Rangers $25 and tour their $1.2 billion toy. (May 20, 1B, “Rangers offering Globe Life Field tours in June, July”)
Wow — no baseball games in sight. A big, overpriced facility, partially funded by taxpayers. And they want me to pay to see it? It defies logic and sanity.
- Dave Waldrop, Hurst
It’s just gotten deeper
President Donald Trump drained the swamp, but now we have mud. And the mud is worse than the swamp ever was.
- Gary Schwartz, Arlington