Letters

I have made at least a half dozen trips up the Texas and Louisiana coast over the past 10 years, have seen the many refineries and petrochemical plants around St. Charles, Beaumont, Port Arthur, the Houston Ship Channel, Baytown and Corpus Christi. I always return home grateful and relieved that where I live, the Rio GrandeValley, we have none of those. The defunct 1970s’ small Brownsville Union Carbide refinery left its legacy as a designated superfund site due to its nationally significant hazardous pollution of soils and/or groundwater.

On Memorial Day weekend I saw parades and marches and a gathering of people, and speeches given by our leaders to honor those who have given the ultimate sacrifice for our country. I remembered my father, Manuel M. Moreno, who served during WWII.

The U.S. housing market is cooling. Median home prices have declined more than 9% from record highs last summer.

Rep. R.D. “Bobby” Guerra wrote recently about the need in Texas for bilingual education and many legislative proposals to accomplish this. I’d like to offer my perspective.

Your guest editorial from the infamous New York Times wants someone to rein in the renegade Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is not beholden to anyone. That’s the way the Founding Father wanted it to be. The Supremes are accountable only to the Constitution, and that was and is the plan.

Republicans in the House of Representatives are now proposing laws to fix banking regulations due to the recent large bank failures. These Republicans won’t tell their supporters that it was their guru Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress who got rid of the regulations put in by President Barack Obama in the first place.

Remember the days when mass shootings in this country were rare events by rogue actors? Those days are long gone, as American-style mass gun violence — four or more people shot in a single incident — occurs daily.

We read nothing but daily accolades and opinions from the media that mostly fit Marxist narratives under the guise of pretending to be against these oppressive ideologies. It seems to be the core of a propagandized campaign to “fundamentally” destroy America.

I don’t know about you, but my attitude sucks! I’m just plain tired of what I see and hear every day, and I need to rant a little bit about it.

I’m 71 years old, survived Vietnam and listen every day to people ask what’s the matter with our country. I have a good friend who’s 89 years old, did three tours in ’Nam and was on the battlefield in the jungle fighting every single time. When I asked him two years ago what’s happening with our country his answer was quick and simple: Too many people look at every Third World country and their problems are no jobs, not enough housing, no law enforcement, no schools and not enough food.