Mayor and gov both fall down

Middle Village: Our progressive mayor and governor are always trying to outdo each other as the people’s champion, yet they both seem to fail when most needed. Mayor de Blasio has failed the NYCHA residents, who are some of the most vulnerable New Yorkers, with faulty boilers and lead paint exposure. He then seems to be failing vulnerable public school children by selecting a new chancellor who has a checkered past and allegations of not doing much to assist black and Latino students in San Francisco. Yet de Blasio has the time to travel to Iowa, Texas and other locales outside of New York City to further himself and his progressive agenda.

Gov. Cuomo talks a good game and positions himself as a “man for the people.” He visits Puerto Rico three times, pledging all forms of financial support and repair crews, yet refuses to fully fund a number of fundamental state programs and is invisible when so many New Yorkers have been without power due to two severe storms and the repair crews being elsewhere. Maybe it’s time for New Yorkers to remember all this come future elections. Joe Cimino

Stick and stones

Bronx: President Trump has an adolescent-like propensity to give derogatory nicknames to those he dislikes such as “Pocahontas,” “Crooked Hillary,” “Little Marco” and “Rocket Man.” After Robert Mueller makes public his long-awaited investigation’s findings, and the truth regarding Trump’s dealings with the Russians is finally exposed, let’s use “Benedict Donald.”

Carlos Martinez

Top secret

Port Washington L.I.: I have it on impeccable inside information that the May summit between President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is already a done deal. Kim will agree to destroy all of his nuclear weapons, and in return President Trump will give him Stormy Daniels’ phone number.

David Gould

Income, not race

Copiague, L.I.: I’ll second Voicer Thomas Mullen that minorities are not singled out by cops. The city where I lived was accused of racial discrimination in stopping cars for “fix-it tickets.” The city attorney (black) and chief of police (Latino) did the research and concluded that fix-it tickets were highest in the zip codes where poor people drove junkers and lowest in the zip codes where professionals had new cars. Within each zip code, there was no appreciable difference in the percentage issued to people of color versus whites, based on each race’s share of the population.

Too yucky

Manhattan: I’ve been a loyal News reader for over 40 years, but when did The News turn into Fangoria? It’s bad enough that every other day the center page is an ad for knee replacement with a photo that would make George Romero proud, but now on page 13 of Saturday’s paper I’m subjected to the picture of a tumor the size of a kangaroo! Please stop with the gore! (P.S. Can we please stop with “Between the Lines”? It’s the most unfunny comic I’ve ever read.) Frank A. Bianco Sea Cliff, L.I.: I’m glad Kevin Daly had successful surgery to remove a 30-pound tumor from his abdomen, but did the Daily News really need to show us a color photo of a doctor holding the tumor in his arms? That was absolutely disgusting. I still feel nauseous. Knock it off!

Lynne Larsen

Calm down on guns

Manhattan: We are hearing a lot of opinions on the Second Amendment, which is sacred to those of us who target-shoot and hunt. I have served as an assistant district attorney, law secretary to a state judge, and mayoral assistant, and I am a life member of the NRA. I have handled gun cases as an ADA and as a defense lawyer. I have studied a plethora of reports and treatises on weapons, and have served in the military as well. But I am fully appreciative of the need for common-sense regulations, and I have been a speaker at several gun organizations where I have been roundly booed for even making such a suggestion. I am not doctrinaire about gun control, but the demonization of the NRA is just plain wrong. There are about 5 million NRA members, including mostly very normal and, in some cases, wellknown Americans. Let’s take a deep breath, stop the rhetoric, and try to come up with some real solutions to violent crime.

Sidney Baumgarten

Justifying Jew-bashing

Forest Hills: Voicer Jorge Sierra seeks to justify the unjustifiable. Tamika Mallory cannot claim to have been unaware of Louis Farrakhan’s fanatic, irrational anti-Semitism, which has been on open display for decades. Unfortunately, the women’s movement has been thoroughly tainted by too many radicals (including Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez) who either openly engage in anti-Semitism or turn a blind eye to it when it’s on the left and not on the right. Mallory is just another sad example of trying to excuse the inexcusable.

Sara Miller

Cuomo’s clean break

Brooklyn: Re “Al aboard! Gore helps Andy elex fight as Nixon eyes run” (March 10): The announcement of $1.4 billion in major clean energy awards is substantial and deserves applause. It is good execution on a piece of Gov. Cuomo’s existing Clean Energy Standard announced in 2016. However, if Cuomo wishes to truly be the face of state resistance to federal failure on climate, he has to go bigger and bolder. He has two perfect opportunities to secure his legacy: He can push the passage of the Climate and Community Protection Act, which would commit New York to reaching 100% renewable energy by 2050, and he can throw his weight behind a fee on corporate polluters, raising up to $7 billion a year to fund that transition. Cuomo has been doing a good job moving New York from a walk to a jog on climate, but he can inspire other governors (and act with the urgency climate science tells us is necessary) by committing to an all-out sprint toward the renewable economy of the future.

Daniela Lapidous

Direct hit

Manhattan: Thank heaven for the Daily News still pumping out unfake news and printing a charming if prickly piece like Marco Greenberg’s March 11 Op-Ed, “How Donald Trump helped my marriage.” The whole piece captivated me quickly. No one has so succinctly painted the picture of the orange ball wrecker as “a bankrupt casino operator,” which is where Trump has always stood in my mind. Thank you, Marco, for this apt picture in print! Ellen “Windy” Lytle

Tariff talk I

Staten Island: Voicer Paul Mellen quoted President-elect Lincoln who, speaking in Pittsburgh on his way to Washington in 1861, made the following statement: “The tariff is to the government what a meal is to the family; but, while this is admitted, it still becomes necessary to modify and change its operations according to new interests and new circumstances.” While Trump’s tariffs are not even off the ground, those circumstances caused modifications and changes at this point in the way of exemptions for Canada and Mexico. Australia, the 28-member European Union and Japan seek exemptions as well. Does a trade war loom ahead?

Michele Corelli

Tariff talk II

Islandia, L.I.: Is Voicer Paul Mellen aware that tariffs were the only method of taxation during the lifetime of Alexander Hamilton and that the federal income tax was first (and only briefly) instituted during the Civil War? Comparing our President to these two great statesmen is like comparing a jet airplane (Lincoln/Hamilton) to a hot-air balloon (Trump).

Michael D. Angiulo

Farewell, Daily News

REUTERS Eastchester, N.Y.: To the Daily Snooze: This is the last straw. I will never pick up this once-great paper that I have been reading since 1941 when The News was The News. Today, you are nothing but an opinionmaker. I don’t need to read your socialist propaganda anymore. Goodbye, Jimmy Powers, Mr. Patterson and all the old reporters who were reporters.

Ralph Valente