Opinion

I see, with apprehension, the rate of COVID infections and deaths in the country rising fast, apparently hitting the unvaccinated disproportionately. Then I listen to Republican leaders telling their followers not to get the vaccine ("they're not effective"; "they're dangerous"; "it's a conspiracy", etc.).

Just like the Cold War with the Soviet Union, we are currently in an arms race with a deadly enemy: COVID. We won the Cold War by acknowledging the threat, and made sacrifices to stay ahead of the weapon escalation curve til we won.

I do not understand why people are so quick to embrace the latest fad, Critical Race Theory. What we have is something developed by a group a lawyers. No scientists, no sociologists, psychologists, or any other -ists.

By Dr. Luis Manriquez and Kirby Weythman

A second generation of dreams from the Lish family now affords us this prime candidate, Mike Lish, to advocate for small and medium-sized businesses as well as schools to hear the voices of parents, students and teachers with impunity. His family is invested financially to see Spokane prosper for all who choose to make this their home as his parents immigrated here to the United States for those same opportunities.

I wish you would stop making such a big deal about “bringing back the Chronicle.” Believe it or not, a lot of us hate reading the newspaper online and refuse to do so, so unless the Chronicle that we knew and loved comes back in print form then it hasn’t “really come back” and we don’t care about one more thing that has to be deciphered on a digital screen.

We have a lot of items to be recycled every week -- plastic, cardboard, etc. We always fill up our recycling can every week.

Don't let Realtors and developers buy City Hall! Once again the Spokane Association of Realtors is spending big on the City Hall races as they just spent $100,000 in the primary to buy two seats on the City Council. They don't represent the best interests of our neighborhoods, our residents, our city or even most Realtors.

Bob Strong’s “What ended worldwide slavery?” (July 11) completely ignores the crucial role that people of color played in the abolition movement in Britain and the U.S. Black abolitionists such as Olaudah Equiano in Britain and Frederick Douglass in the U.S. worked side by side with white abolitionists such as William Wilberforce and William Lloyd Garrison in their countries’ respective abolitionist movements.

In World War II, Americans lost 405,000 lives. Uncle Sam asked and sometimes ordered residents to black out their windows so as not to become targets for our enemies. Travel was restricted. Gas was rationed along with sugar and coffee. This was war.

“Climate scientists warned us. When will we listen?” (Eugene Robinson, July 6) opinion piece asks, “One simple question for climate change skeptics: What is it about 121 degrees in Canada that you don’t understand?”

I have thought for weeks, how do we bring healing to the United States? My conclusion is not preposterous. What would America look like without political parties?

As a retired faculty member and citizen of this state, I was enraged to read that the high-paid head coach of the WSU football team is refusing to get vaccinated for COVID ("WSU'S Rolovich not vaccinated," July 22), despite the university's mandate that students, faculty and staff be vaccinated for fall semester 2021.

It is time again for us to vote for the best leaders to run our city. The real trial was the challenge of the last 18 months and the pandemic. All citizens and businesses needed to work together to try to get through this very trying time. It was a time for teamwork and everyone doing their part.

In the public debate about the risk/benefit ratio of getting the COVID-19 vaccine, misinformation from people who have no idea what they are talking about is dangerous. ("State Rep. Rob Chase’s anti-vaccine comments removed from Facebook," July 21)

In our everyday lives we face risks all the time. When we get out of bed in the morning we face risks. We could fall over and get hurt and other bad things could happen, and these risks increase as we get older. I am 80 years old. So we weigh the risks of getting out of bed versus what would happen to us if we just stayed in bed.