Since you’re leaving Fort Worth, Dickies, we Texans should just wash our hands of you | Opinion
Don’t even want to see the name
I couldn’t believe the announcement that Dickies is moving to California. (Nov. 24, 1A, “Iconic Fort Worth brand Dickies moving HQ to California”) Why? It doesn’t make any sense because so many companies are moving out of California.
Fort Worth needs to remove the name from Dickies Arena immediately. Fair Park in Dallas needs to find someone else to make clothes for Big Tex. There’s no need to promote companies that don’t like Texas.
- Jim Villwock, Aledo
State doesn’t protect its workers
On the news that Dickies — an iconic Fort Worth brand for 100 years — is moving its headquarters to California, Mayor Mattie Parker suggested that the company will regret leaving a business-friendly environment. Why, Mayor? We have few worker-protection laws. The state even banned cities from passing ordinances requiring water breaks for outdoor workers during the summers.
I’m saddened Dickies is leaving after a century.
- Aram Azadpour, Grapevine
Not the right women here
I take issue with the conclusion of a Nov. 24 letter-writer that the U.S. has fallen behind other countries because we haven’t elected a female president. The issue is more that the major political parties have not nominated a woman acceptable to the masses.
Hillary Clinton was generally disliked, to the point she squandered a huge lead and Donald Trump won. She carried the baggage of failed socialized medicine and, of course, the “basket of deplorables” comment about Trump supporters.
Kamala Harris’ problems included a bloodless coup, promising to raise corporate taxes and running on ”joy” while turning to Trump bashing. Spending a billion dollars bashing Trump and hiring celebrities was never a recipe for success.
We are ready for a woman to be president, just neither of these. Bill Clinton may be right that a center-right woman will be first.
- Charles Andrews, Fort Worth
What MAGA really means to me
What is a MAGA Republican? If you support or accept the support of Donald Trump, you support authoritarianism, extremism and racism, reject fair and free elections, are defiant toward law enforcement and promote political violence.
- Leslie J. Smith, Grapevine
Support principals and teachers
To solve education problems, first, the principal must be in charge of the school. Second, the teacher must be in charge of the classroom.
And the primary responsibility for the superintendent and staff? To help principals and teachers be more effective and efficient in their essential roles.
- Omar Winter, Fort Worth
Gateway Church is an outlier
It’s interesting that attendance and financial contributions have dwindled at Gateway Church after sex abuse allegations against founder Robert Morris. And yet, many evangelical Christians condemning Morris couldn’t wait to vote for a presidential candidate who makes Morris look like an innocent choirboy.
- Jack Bowen, Fort Worth
Just what is a ‘serious’ law?
A Nov. 19 Chicago Tribune editorial in The Star-Telegram’s online edition, “Trump’s immigration deportation plans need compassion and a dose of reality,” argues that we should “deport those in noncompliance who have broken ‘serious’ laws.”
If a law is not “serious,” it should be repealed. The Tribune argues that the U.S. “has not meaningfully enforced its own laws for years,” but ignoring laws and flippantly calling some “serious” and others “nonserious” is subjective and unfair.
- Mark Swanson, Mansfield