Letters

Several letters to the editor are begging to be called out.

One year ago, 19 children and two teachers were murdered at RobbElementary School in Uvalde. It was a day of unimaginable shock, grief and fear as the tight-knit community confronted a senseless act of violence.

The community Olympic development program limped into Harlingen after scandal and charges of embezzlement ran the program out of Brownsville. The Harlingen Old Guard cynically put together a board of outcasts and misfits on whom I was included until one fellow board member began bad-mouthing me all over town and made all kinds of untrue accusations, but it’s led me to have other responsibilities, or should I say, as God planned, I was asked to write a business plan for the program, justifying funding of $25,000 a month from the Harlingen Economic Development Corp.

Is higher education doomed in Texas because of current Republicans at the state Capitol? Let’s consider two bills promoted by our lieutenant governor and others.

Recently, actor Hugh Jackman shared the news on Instagram that he recently underwent testing for skin cancer following a checkup. This was not his first experience with a potential basal cell carcinoma; he has opened up about undergoing procedures to remove this common type of skin cancer several times over the past few years.

The data are clear: A third of Texas’ nearly 8 million children are immigrants or the children of immigrants. In our cities, like Houston, the number is about half of our children.

Immigration policy has divided the United States for several decades. Much has been written on how our polarized politics prevents us from moving forward in reforming our immigration laws and fixing what most characterize as a broken immigration system.

During the heights of the pandemic every politician used the trucking industry for their personal political benefit.

Four-and-a-half score years ago, on May 10, students in Berlin and throughout Germany displayed their patriotism to the world by purging their libraries of subversive and degenerative ideas. The summer night glowed with works by Einstein, Freud and Kafka as the flames purified the nation. These authors, but not all, were spared the conflagration of Nazi Germany.

This is my response to Bill Williams’ letter to the editor dated May 1.