Letters: These Trump skeptics hope people know what they are doing

Trump skeptics hope people know what they are doing

Re: “Trump’s return to White House is what we need,” Nov. 1 letter to the editor

A letter writer, sadly, like so many others, believes that having Donald Trump in the Oval Office will miraculously reduce prices. Maybe she isn’t aware that Trump does not preside over OPEC, King Soopers, Nabisco, General Mills, and other sources of the food and gas chains. God forbid she’ll need a new cell phone in the next few years. With the proposed exorbitant tariffs Trump intends to impose, anything coming from China will strain folks’ pocketbooks even further.

Witnessing Kamala Harris’ concession speech, reminded me why so many voted for her — dignity, poise, grace and optimism — attributes that any president should exhibit. Now we’re left with what my father always called “an empty suit”.

Candy London, Denver

With the re-election of Trump I’m convinced that our generation’s time – I’m in my 80s — has passed. The values I admire, the qualities of character I respect, seem to be relegated to some kind of antique standards shop. We’re decidedly outta style.

Looking around I figure we’re relegated to a kind of glassed-in porch, a comfortable spot for sure but one safely out of traffic. Our circumstances are comfortable, our standard of living mostly assured (I hope), our opinions tolerated but quietly disregarded. We’re superfluous, rocking in the swing while rolling our eyes like our grandparents did.

I hope the younger voters know what they’re doing (but quietly doubt it). For them I leave these words I heard often: “I told ya so!”

Harry Puncec, Lakewood

Don’t forget that beautiful Russell Wilson win

Re: “Nix embraces challenge of facing K.C.’s defense,” Nov. 7 sports commentary

Troy Renck does mention the losses the Broncos suffered at Arrowhead, Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve “Spagnuolo owns five home wins against Drew Lock, Teddy Bridgewater and Russell Wilson.” However, when he mentions our one win, “Broncos beat the Chiefs in Denver last season, ending a 16-game losing streak to their rival,” he does not give credit to Wilson, the winning Bronco quarterback. Wilson deserves that credit and he made my day. It was a great win, 24 to 9.

Dea Coschignano, Wheat Ridge

Don’t choke out downtown Denver

Decades ago, when Denver downtown was losing big businesses to the satellite business centers like Inverness and the Denver Tech Center, a big sit-down with Denver planning and the CDOT Director resulted in an effort to increase travel capacity and efficiency into downtown.

Corporations liked working downtown, but the difficulties and costs of operating downtown could not be ignored. Corporations were relocating to suburban centers.

I think the recent major conversions of downtown streets to improve mobility for other travel modes has increased congestion and increased travel delays to and from downtown for employees, retail customers, freight (movement of goods) and business services. Fewer people want to work downtown.

The large loss of parking for retail and restaurants is reducing retail sales. The mayor and Planning/Public works has forgotten that the economic engine of downtown depends on the efficient movement of people, goods and services. Apparently, the city has given no consideration to the loss travel efficiency, the congestion, and the added pollution much less the frustration, of having a business, corporate or retail, downtown.

The city competes for a piece of the economic pie not only with nearby cities, which are offering lower costs but also globally. Denver is choking its downtown with its changes in vital infrastructure and making it more expensive to have a business downtown.

The mayor must understand what drives the gross domestic product of downtown Denver. And every decision the mayor makes must factor in the economic impacts to the GDP.

Philip Demosthenes, Denver

Which is it DPS? Too many or too few?

Re: “DPS must avert a ‘full-blown crisis’,” Nov. 4 news story

At first the Denver public schools stated that they are getting too many immigrants coming into the state. They claim they need a new school building yet they are closing old schools. They want to close more schools now because there’s not enough babies being born in this area. Kind of sounds like the administrators don’t know what they’re doing. That’s normal for any big corporation or business. Meanwhile, I’m sure the teachers will be the ones that suffer.

Leroy M Martinez, Denver

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