Letters

I am not a Texan, but the Rio Grande Valley is my home and the place I will die. As such I owe and give it allegiance, pride and thanks for how easy it makes my retirement. However, most recently it deserves my anger and embarrassment.

Please, county residents, open your eyes to what is being done to our home taxes. The appraisal district has risen home prices an average of 35% or higher. This will only raise our taxes significantly.

Being ignorant basically means being uninformed. Educated people, and even those we consider scholars, can be ignorant. Albert Einstein admitted he was ignorant about certain things when he said, “The more I learn the more I realize how much I don’t know.” And Socrates likewise said, “All I know is that I know nothing.”

Emotion and common sense. We react and decide on emotion, but is that wise?

“This jury was a joke” — Marco Rubio.

There is certainly more than enough hate in this country to go around. Another certainty is that it is accomplishing nothing, but you have to ask history, is it justifiable? Who is accountable for what we have become?

In 2023, school choice went mainstream. So far, Iowa, South Carolina, Utah, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Oklahoma and Nebraska have enacted substantial measures to empower parents and students through educational freedom.

Erika De Los Reyes’ reporting on the nursing shortage’s impact on the Rio Grande Valley has it right. She states, “The solution to the nursing shortage problem is education” (May 14). While nursing programs across the state and country are seeing declines in enrollment, Western Governors University’s Michael O. Leavitt School of Health has expanded its nursing prelicensure program to meet the increasing demand for new registered nurses — which is estimated to reach 1.2 million new nurses by 2030 according to the American Nurses Association.

Ever wonder why so many folks are teeming at our southern border today?

Poor Ned Sheats; he hates Donald Trump for the deaths caused due to his slow response to the COVID pandemic. I guess poor ol’ Ned conveniently forgot Operation Warp Speed that got Moderna, Phizer and Lily producing the COVID variant drugs in record time, by Dec. 18, 2020 according to one website, saving millions of lives. Not like Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who sent sick patients back to nursing homes to infect the rest of the population, causing hundreds of deaths in New York state.