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Our unhoused neighbors

I am a pastor and advocate working with our unhoused neighbors. I see firsthand the living conditions that some call home. I experience their stories of how they got to where they are and how they would like to work, if possible. I see joy and community and I see sadness and sorrow. But what I do not see are activists encouraging people with money to continue to live on a cold wet ground in the winter. I do see caring, compassionate people trying to work through a broken system. This is the time for our city to become united, not draw further apart. This is the time for faith-based organizations to step up to become part of the solutions working with our elected officials and communities. This is the time to educate one another around the causes of homelessness and what we can do together to create solutions. It is time to accept that we do not have all the answers. This is hard work. However, if we will listen more, ask our neighbors what they need, instead of deciding for them, then just maybe together we can become stewards of our tax dollars. This is how we will begin to make progress on one of the greatest crises of our time.

Columnist Larry Wilson on Schiff and Biden

I could not agree more with Stan Olsen, in Letters for an. 19, concerning Larry Wilson’s partisan screeds. I have given up on reading most of them. I did read his take on Adam

Schiff and couldn’t disagree more. After the Russian disinformation, I cannot listen to Schiff’s false diatribes anymore. As for his use of “slimy” and “evil” to depict Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, I think it is a perfect example of the pot calling the kettle black! Frankly, that terminology should be beneath a journalist.

Biden’s press conference

I was amazed and intrigued Jan. 19, watching and listening to President Biden answering questions for two hours. He mentioned all of the good things he has accomplished in his first year; he doesn’t believe in polls and he wants to know one thing the Republicans are for. When he answered one short question with “I am not a socialist” my brain reminded me of a quote from a previous time when President Nixon said “I am not a crook.” I believe everything but law and order wasn’t mentioned.

Voting rights bill

I’m confused. If Democrats (and the media) were so gleeful that Biden beat Trump so handily, and with more votes for Biden than have ever been cast in our country’s history, then why do we need a voting rights bill? And if all was accomplished on the up and up, as they say, and voting was so easy, and more Black voters put Biden over the top, and there were no voting infractions or discrepancies, then what is the voting problem? It appears that the Democrats’ voting rights bill may actually be more aptly named a voting rules bill, perhaps designed to skew things in their favor for future elections?

Florida bill on critical race theory and White guilt

Your headline “Florida could shield Whites from ‘discomfort’ of racist past” Jan. 19 is a terrible distortion. The bill attacks the idea of collective guilt, but demands that Black history, including slavery, be taught in schools and that there be no discrimination by race, color, religion, sex or disability. It further insists that no race is superior to any other. Does that sound like a racist bill?

Don’t blame social media

RE “L.A. sees 397 killings; worst in 15 years” (Jan. 14):

LAPD Chief Moore is really blaming social media for the highest number of murders in L.A. in 15 years? Not one mention of the thousands of convicted felons released early from prison in the last two years? Or the permissiveness of the politicians allowing rampant rioting and looting in the streets in the name of justice and equity then shamelessly kneeling down for the cameras to show solitary with these criminals? It’s so much easier to vilify tech companies than to reverse the broken policies that led us here.