Celebrating tax funds for Valley

Editor:
How sweet when the federal dollars roll into South Texas! After all, aren’t we all part of the United States? Don’t we pay taxes?
So, Brownsville’s PUB will have dollars for an improved sewage system.
And, there were hints from U.S. Rep. James Oberstar, a leading member of the House Transportation Committee, that South Texas needs road improvement.
Now, for several points.
If Brownsville and South Texas are so willing to receive those kinds of federal funds, why the reluctance to strongly get behind a national health care-single payer plan?
And, not all road dollars are wise, and federal money will be involved if the West Loop Parkway ever gets built. No federal money should go for that scheme; instead, the plan should die, and be replaced by a much less-costly biking, hiking and nature trail.
Celebrate federal funds for sewer systems and some, not all, roads.
Advocate federal funds for a national health care-single-payer system.
Advocate federal funds for that biking, hiking and nature trail.
We are “in it together,” and we pay taxes, so those federal dollars are ours!
Use them for health and necessary transportation enhancement, not pollution, neighborhood ruination, noise and
concrete and asphalt.
Eugene “Gene” Novogrodsky
Brownsville
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Let’s respect traffic laws

Editor:
It’s an embarrassment that in a city as great as Brownsville, those who live in it drive like savages who can’t be more respectful with traffic lights and speed limits.
We’re always in a hurry; we can’t get out of our homes on time. Let’s try to become better every day.
Cristina Montero
Brownsville
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