Letters

Cathy McMorris Rodgers just voted against increasing the stimulus from a one time payment of $600 to $2,000, marking the first time she has voted against anything put forth by Trump.

Shame on Spokane County Board of Commissioners Al French, Mary Kuney and Josh Kearns for ignoring the most glaring unmet need during the COVID-19 public health crisis: rental assistance. A simple Google search on rental assistance will show the numerous local, state and national stories on evictions and housing insecurity renters face while they have been laid off work, had work hours drastically reduced or are sick and dying.

The next time a conservative elected official decries Medicare for all as "socialism," ask them these questions: "What type of healthcare do you have?" and "Who pays for it?"

This is in response to a Dec. 26 letter by Ron Shores ("Socialist police cars?") in which he complains about the Spokane City Council’s decision to buy 4 Tesla Model Y’s for police cars.

I know Mr. Trump is upset by losing. It’s all he talks about. Unfortunately, that is a done deal for him and he should try to save his actual legacy by working to help the public.

Ever heard of a doctor from Shriners Hospital coming down to serve cookies to children at the Salvation Army on Christmas Eve? Me either, until tonight when I met Dr. Chris. There is hope for the world.

Joe Biden, in naming officials for his incoming administration, betrays a manifest prejudice against incompetence, unlike Donald Trump's record of appointing at least incompetence in the area that the candidate would oversee when he could not find someone actively opposed to the agency's mission.

I want to thank the city of Spokane Valley for the Christmas gift I received in the mail Christmas Eve Dec 24th telling me they will be proceeding with the roundabout on Sprague and Barker and will be taking my front yard for this project. Now wasn't that a nice Christmas gift?

I have just one question:

Perhaps historians will say that if in the time of COVID we had a president who didn't call it a hoax or suggest we inject ourselves with Lysol or the like then things could have been different.

Christmas morning I was building the fire with the newspaper. Somehow in the busyness I had missed Sue Lani Madsen's column ("Three days of joy for a family to recall, celebrate," Dec. 24).

I just hope that my congressional representative reads the article by Hal Bernton in the Dec. 21 Spokesman (COVID leaves a heavy mark east of the Cascades").

Thank you for publishing the names of letters to the editor authors. This way I can avoid the M.D. who concludes in “What will history say?” (Michael A. Judd) on Christmas Eve that 260,000 (80% of the 325,000) Baby Boomers killed by the pandemic aren’t worth the economic disruption or the deep emotional trauma of having to resort to remote learning to save lives.

Garith W. Krause commends Cathy McMorris Rodgers for supporting the state of Texas’s effort to nullify the votes of citizens in other states ("She did the right thing," Dec. 20). Krause thinks this was “the most constitutional way” to proceed, “the constitutional choice.”

I was surprised and disturbed by a recent letter from Spokane doctor Michael Judd, M.D. ("What will history say?", Dec. 24). In his letter he downplays the effectiveness of wearing masks and quarantining, and suggests that history will show that our attempt to save the 1% who contracted the disease and died from it (325,000 to date and growing at about 1,500 a day) has ruined the American way of life for the other 99%.

"The Electoral College has spoken…I congratulate the president elect, Joe Biden…" Who could have known these words by Mitch McConnell would bring tears to my eyes. Is it possible we will have a new day of reason and civility in our nation.

It seems pathetically ironic that, in my opinion, we have a white-collar criminal pardoning other white-collar criminals.

Michael A. Judd asks what what history will say about our COVID-19 response (Dec. 23).

Every day, we hear of local bars and restaurants shutting their doors due to financial strain caused by the pandemic. But what is the city doing to help?