A little research on coal miners would have gone long way

I want to thank Mr. McKinstry for the excellent letter he wrote in response to Rashaad Thomas’ letter on blackface miners.

My grandfather was a coal miner all his short life, dying in 1943, two years before I was born.

The coal dust he breathed every day he worked led to his death, and he, like the miners Mr. Thomas condemned for appearing in a photo with black faces, had a black face every time he exited the mine.

A little research on the part of people who are quick to condemn would have made all the letters unnecessary, and the ill feelings non-existent.

Feeling sympathy for the soot-covered workers in mines

In response to Bruce McKinstry’s letter, I have to agree about coal dust. As a veteran of a clean-burning nuclear plant I was given the opportunity to tour a coal plant in Northern Arizona.

Just from using the hand rail and walking the grounds, my hands and shoes were covered with black dust.

When operators from the coal plant toured our plant they couldn’t get over how clean everything was. I can’t imagine having to work in an actual mine and having coal dust cover my entire body.

Part of the problem in eviction crisis is the quality of judges

has had several stories recently about the “eviction crisis” in Arizona.

I’ve seen a more serious problem. In previous years I have been both a tenant and a property manager. And in both situations, I saw Justice Court judges who do not have any real education or experience with law. They were either ignorant or simply chose to ignore

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Landlords were not required to maintain properties or follow other parts of the Landlord/Tenant Act. And tenants who tried to get what they were paying for were ignored.

Perhaps a landlord/tenant mediation service after the regular court process could solve this?

My personal dream would be to hold judges personally liable for costs resulting from their improper decisions.

Build a border wall to protect Americans? Are you kidding me?

Gun deaths kill 96 Americans every day and 35,141 every year. Of the dozens of American children who have been slaughtered while they attend school, not a single one — — has been killed by an illegal immigrant!

Close to 330 million people now live in the United States and between 10 and 15 percent of them do not have any or adequate health insurance.

If the president of the United States wants to protect its citizens, as he is constitutionally required to do, he ought to start by supporting health care for all and a gun culture that protects our people.

Anything short of that, including his

Cheers to Democrats who proposed the Green New Deal to tackle climate change. However, there’s not a word in it about family planning, advancing women’s rights, or regulating immigration to slow population growth.

In 30 years, the U.S. population projected to increase by 30 percent.

Let’s quit fooling ourselves. There’s no magical “green” pathway that can stop the destruction of our planet without reigning in human population growth. is