Read the Express-News letters to the editor for May 20.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans have held the debt ceiling hostage to garner concessions from Democrats, a reader laments.Recently, I took my grandson to his elementary school fair and stood in a long line so he could play one of the most popular games, laser tag. The kids were assigned to groups, issued weapons resembling assault rifles and pretended to kill each other on the playground. The last kid standing was declared the winner.
In relatively the same period, my school district removed library books and Texas Republicans proposed prosecuting librarians for “obscene books.” And now, our governor has proposed pardoning a man convicted of murdering an armed protester in Austin.. Maybe we should cut Gov. Greg Abbott and Republican legislators some slack: It’s easier to attack librarians than criticize the National Rifle Association.
But maybe a librarian could help them see the irony of children reenacting mass murder on a playground with a flag at half-staff in front of the school.“Our aquifer is in trouble,”I would like to know if the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, could be held responsible for supplying potable water to all residences and businesses affected if the septic system fails and wells in this area are compromised.
TCEQ should be held accountable since it is the agency responsible for the permit going forward. For a long time there existed a moratorium on developments over the Edwards Aquafer recharge zones, evidently this is no longer the case.
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