The News horses around again

Blauvelt, N.Y.: I have been reading the Daily News for over 50 years. One of the reason I did was the expanded charts and results for the New York racetracks (full pages). The other newspapers in town at that time did not come close to the information the Daily News had. When you started the campaign to save the horse-drawn carriages, you at the same time started to kill the horse racing business in New York. You reduced the charts and results to two columns about 2 inches wide. The Daily News had become like any other newspaper.

This disappointment almost made me stop reading the paper. To my surprise, on weekends you now have a full page for the charts and results for Belmont. I hope this continues. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Richard Delle Femine Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: So glad to see the return of the Belmont horse racing charts to your sports section! Is it too much to hope you’ll print the Saratoga charts this summer? Bob English

Welcome back, ponies

Locust Valley, L.I.: Thank you for the expanded coverage of thoroughbred horse racing that you started providing again in New York’s Hometown Paper. Belmont Park is one of New York City’s jewels. The Sport of Kings provides regal pageantry, the horses are majestic, and the participants are colorful — all that and you can bet on the races, too!

Van Cushny

A returning reader

Bergenfield, N.J.: Racing coverage returns to the Daily News. Well done! Now I can renew my subscription. Al Schwarzler

Nazi nineties

Brooklyn: To Voicer Lourenço Lemos: Seriously? How many 92-year-olds did the Nazis send to the gas chamber?

Andrew Feinstein

Never Hillary

Maspeth: In Hillary Clinton’s “resistance speech,” she said she was “almost our President.” No, Hillary, you never were almost our President. Joanna Hughes

Sign of the times

Brick, N.J.: Watching all the anti-Trump protesters on May 1 in New York City, I believe they should have been carrying signs saying “Criminals, Lawbreakers, Losers, Deadbeats, Democrats and Chuckie Schumer against Trump.” Bill Lynch

Trump’s tyrants

Jamaica: President Trump is meeting with these tyrants because he is building hotels in their countries. His daughter Ivanka is promoting her clothing line in these countries also. What are the Republicans doing? Nothing. When are the people of the United States going to realize that the President does not care about us? Shame on the Republicans! They are glad he is building up the Department of Defense. Again, shame on them! Charlene Black

Outrageous Colbert

Tampa: I am appalled at Stephen Colbert and how he could say the things he did about our President. If this had been said about Barack Obama, there would be so much outrage, he would have been °taken off the air. I believe he needs to be taken off the air for his so-called jokes. If this is what CBS’ programming promotes, I don’t need to watch anything on the network. Colbert needs to give a public apology and then step down. We the people are sick and tired of this crap. Show some respect; Donald Trump is the President. Susan Kretchman

Speak up, Stephen

Brooklyn: Kudos to Stephen Colbert for saying the truth about this so-called President. Trump has said far worse. I think some of his cronies are upset because the truth hurts! Elisha Rubinstein

Kick him off the air

Boynton Beach, Fla.: Stephen Colbert should never be seen on TV. CBS should be fined for having this garbage on TV. Make him an example for any stupid comic that would say this stupid opening. Stewart Tenzer

Lincoln’s wise words

Hollis: How ironic that the very President who Donald Trump, in his recent ramblings, tried to degrade may have posthumously offered him the best advice. It was Abraham Lincoln who said, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubts.” For me, and I am sure millions of Americans, Trump has long removed all doubts about his mental capacity. But when, in his recent interview with CBS’ John Dickerson, he seemed to suggest that slave-owing Andrew Jackson was a better President than Lincoln because the Civil War occurred under the latter’s watch, he sealed the thought, at least in my mind, that he is a total fool. Leonard Wills

Hung up on race

Brooklyn: Political correctness is out of control (“Butcher surrenders on hate-crime charges for noose ‘joke,’ ” May 3). It is completely ridiculous to charge this man with a hate crime. I have no way of knowing with certainty if he meant his joke in a racist way. But even if he did, it does not rise to being criminal. I don’t believe for two seconds that the target of the joke was shaking after the noose was handed to him. That is most likely a ploy to bolster a civil suit sure to come. I live in Ditmas Park and there has been a surge in white people moving into this predominantly black area. Tensions are running high for many. On a daily basis, I witness whites being degraded and threatened by angry black residents who want the area to stay black. Nobody is arresting these people for their blatant racist rhetoric and threats. Jamie Connor

Tag it right

Brooklyn: I appreciate Shaun King’s reporting (“Cop who killed Jordan Edwards should be arrested,” column, May 2). He is an asset to your newspaper and to our city. However, why is this story tagged with a “teen violence” label on The News website? From all accounts, the teens involved were anything but violent. If you want to be fair and balanced, where’s the tag that says “police violence”? Right, I won’t hold my breath. Please remove the “teen violence” tag. At the very least, it’s misleading. At worst, it’s highly disrespectful to Jordan Edwards and his family.

George Sosa

Stop the fear and bias

Philadelphia: In my opinion, the policeman or policewoman simply had a gut feeling that the young men were criminals or hiding drugs. Or the officer was struck with fear. That’s why the shots were fired. Find out how fear and bias are countered. That’s all that will work in a country with deep roots of racism. You will discover the link with capitalism, an economic system that engineers divisions among workers. Profit is lowered by worker unity, and capitalists around the world can’t allow that to happen. Kristin Jaros

Watch the oncoming train

Flushing: I have to ask (“Subway train hits man in face at Upper West Side station,” April 30): Did the train jump up to the platform to hit him? It was his own fault. First of all, he had to be too close to the edge of the platform. Plus, when I turn my head, it doesn’t stick out past my shoulder. So, he has to be leaning out over the ROB CARR/GETTY IMAGES track looking for a train; to be caught unawares, he had to be deaf and/or looking in the wrong direction. And please tell your reporters that the conductor does not drive the train, the motorman does. Thanks to this man’s stupidity, they were both probably taken out of service even though neither of them did anything wrong.

Maria McComiskey

Editorial response needed

Coram, L.I.: Re: Voicer Larry Pearson’s letter concerning Bengals player Joe Mixon’s overreaction to a woman who attacked him: Pearson accurately states that The News left out a number of circumstances (the woman was drunk, Mixon does not drink, Mixon was starting to walk away when attacked) that most certainly would have mitigated Mixon’s position to some extent and shown a responsible, fair and balanced journalistic approach rather than totally ruining the man’s reputation in an effort to only sensationalize. In my many years of following (and contributing to) Voicers, I have never once seen the editor or story writer respond in counterpoint to any Voicer objection to a News story or editorial. I understand a reply cannot be made for every disagreement, but it is certainly a pretty poor reflection on the newspaper when factual representation is challenged. Somehow, I thought accuracy was important to the paper’s editors and staff.

Dennis G. Griffin