Making Lodi livable and lovable
Editor: Shortly after arriving home Tuesday from a full morning of shopping, I received a phone call from Costco that an unidentified lady had found my credit card on the ground and returned it to them. I want to thank her and the other honest citizens involved who make life here in Lodi livable and lovable.
NORMA JOHNSON Lodi
Medical profession working together
Editor: AMA, Hurray! It is no secret that organized medicine has, for decades, worked hard to discredit, demean and ridicule the chiropractic profession.
So, with the terrible opioid epidemic getting worse, big med has been forced to find a better way. It’s been there all along. Spinal manipulation is now looked at through unbiased lenses and it is considered perhaps the most effective, safest and least expensive mode of treatment available.
The American of Physicians also agree with this assessment. So, let’s see — safest, most effective and least cost. Did you know that back pain is the No. 1 cause of disability in the world?
When MDs and DCs work together, patients benefit. We can sure make a dent in the opioid crisis.
DOUG GERARD Lodi
In agreement with Paden’s column
Editor: Would the wire services pick up the article by Gwin Mitchell Paden on April 27 on the Editorial page, “Where is my Country?”
For years I have been praying for our leaders, but it seems they are like a married couple who are always fighting. Who suffers? The children of course, and we are those children.
In commenting about our educational system, it seems watered down. What happened to proper English?
The companion article featuring a 15-year-old’s prayer speaks also of watered-down religion.
God help us! May I even say that?
MARILYN MOORE Lodi
President misguided on federal lands
Editor: Remember singing “Home on the Range” in school? Now anyone who wishes to live where the buffalo once roamed may do so. Once more President Donald Trump throws wise actions by prior chief executives into the dustbin of history.
According to an April 27 article by Yahoo News staff writers, the president acted to remove vast tracts of lands, mainly in the Great Plains and West, from protection as national monuments:“
President Donald Trump signed an executive order last Wednesday directing his interior secretary to review the designation of dozens of national monuments on federal lands, calling the protection efforts ‘a massive federal land grab’ by previous administrations.
“It was yet another executive action from a president trying to rack up accomplishments during his first 100 days in office, with Saturday marking that milestone. And it could upend protections put in place in Utah and other states under a 1906 law that authorizes the president to declare federal lands as monuments and restrict their use.“
During a signing ceremony at the Interior Department, Trump said the order would end ‘another egregious abuse of federal power’ and ‘give that power back to the states and to the people where it belongs.’ ”
Despite his lofty statement, the president actually has just given wealthy ranchers, land developers, oil companies, and mining firms free rein to destroy some of the world’s last expanses of wilderness. The order also dooms hundreds of wildlife species to extinction. Pollution will further poison the earth, sky and water. Many monuments were set aside during the Theodore Roosevelt administration. He was an avid hunter — and, as are most hunters, a conservationist.
City boys aren’t interested in remote areas where a two-holer outhouse is a luxury. They certainly won’t hunt for supper, either. The president shows how ignorant he is of American values and history. His executive order is an abomination.
LANGE WINCKLER Lodi