2 weeks Ago
Do you think Trump’s people care about the middle class? So, Donald Trump, the mob boss causes a monetary panic with his dart board tariffs and jets off to Florida to play footsie with the Saudis at a cost of $3 million to taxpayers. Of his 12 weeks in office, he has spent 10 weekends traveling to his refuge in Florida to play golf. Do the math, he has cost taxpayers $30 million thus far for his golf outings.
I wonder if Musk is watching. When Trump is in D.C.
, his main focus is on signing his intimidating executive orders, 124 to date. His retribution tour extends from generals to everyday citizens and the press. When did a president get so much unparalleled power? Where is the oversight from Congress? Trump is moving us very quickly to an authoritarian, plutocratic form of government.
This is reminiscent of Hitler and Mussolini. It is encouraging to see citizens supporting the “hands off” campaign , but only Congress and the courts can reign in Trump and his wealthiest-ever Cabinet, who are worth in excess of $460 billion representing the top 0.0001%.
Do you think these people care about the middle class? Alan Cipriani, Lafayette Pause development before it’s too late Thousands of new apartments, hundreds of new cars. Same but Increasingly crowded streets and unsafe walkways — Boulder, stop — take a pause! Our wonderful Boulder is slowly changing from a beautiful garden town to an increasingly crowded urban dense zone. Think of the sight of the Millennium Hotel with open space and tennis courts to be replaced with barrack-style cell block student housing.
Thousands of new apartments with thousands more on the way. Hundreds of new cars on the same and now increasingly unsafe streets . Overcrowded parks.
Stop. It’s time to take a pause . It used to be that new apartment dwellings had open space around them and some type of park in the middle of the development but that’s no longer the case.
It’s now designed to get as many apartments as you can into a space. Yes, we do need more affordable housing and some of the developments include a percentage of affordable housing. But many of the developments and apartments are expensive and offer great returns for big off-site real estate developers.
I urge the City Council to take a pause and I urge the Boulder citizens to stand up to this increasingly dense population surge which is changing the very nature of this beautiful town we live in — it’s not too late but it’s going to be soon. Avinash Clay Phipps, Boulder Seniors go hungry while CU football thrives I agree with the Letter to the Editor, “Sanders new contract is obscene,” published on April 3, that Coach Deion Sanders’ new $54 million contract is obscene. Especially given that within one mile from CU, there are more than 200 low-income seniors living in a facility with a dining room that has been closed for three years because “there is not enough funding to keep it open.
” Yet CU can dole out a $54 million salary — obscene? I agree but also shameful, considering CU received over $100 million from the State of Colorado while seniors go hungry. Irene Hillson, Boulder Headshot cropping is amateurish blunder The puzzling editorial practice of frequently showing headshots of persons in which only the face from the nose up is shown and the lower part of the head is cropped out looks ridiculous. Back in the prehistoric days when I received my journalism degree, this now seemingly fashionable practice would have been seen as an amateurish blunder.
Please use the additional pixels to show people’s whole faces instead of making them look like Kilroy. Earl Noe, Boulder.
