Fourth Street has needs
When on God’s green earth are they going to repave Fourth Street from Garfield to Lincoln?
Clearly the vendors and owners need customers and when they head downtown. The street is horrible to drive on and clearly in need of repaving. Any input? Thanks and stay safe.
Kyle Gomez
Loveland
Lake Powell Pipeline will promote Utah water waste
Colorado should challenge the Lake Powell Pipeline (LPP) because it would promote Utah’s wasting of precious Colorado River water when deliveries to other states are being cut back.
Colorado and other states heavily rely on Colorado River water. Due to climate change and the megadrought, some deliveries have already been reduced and caused economic hardship. Unfortunately, despite this new reality, Utah politicians and the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) are pushing to approve the controversial LPP before President Trump may leave office in January. BOR recently released a biased environmental study that fails to analyze any water conservation alternatives.
Washington County, Utah, where I live, would receive the LPP water. It uses an average of 302 gallons per capita day. In contrast, Denver uses 142 and the national average is 138. The county refuses to implement reasonable water conservation measures that have been successful elsewhere.
The LPP may violate the Colorado River Compact by transferring upper basin water for a lower basin use. Its construction would harm public lands, scenic vistas, and wildlife such as threatened Mojave desert tortoises.
During this pandemic economy, with high priority public needs short on funding, this $3 billion LPP boondoggle should not proceed without a fair analysis of alternatives that are likely to be cheaper and less environmentally destructive.
Richard Spotts
St. George, Utah
Antifa uses fascist tactics
Regarding confusing left and right: The idea that fascism is right wing is a misconception driven by the left’s big lie.
I believe the root of this misconception comes from the violent political fight that took place in Germany between the communist left and the national socialist known as the Nazi party in the 1930s. Now we call the Nazis fascists, but they were socialists and like the communists a branch of Marxism.
While Nazis were to right of the far left-wing communists, they were still left wing. For more detail, read Dinesh D’Souza’s book “The Big Lie,” which exposes this misconception in detail.
Antifa claims to be against fascism while using fascist tactics. They are clearly a trained and well-funded communist operation trying to destroy the America. For example, it didn’t just happen that piles of bricks showed up in multiple cities during the planned riots. They hate you, they hate me, they hate liberty, and they hate America. The leaders and funders of this terrorist organization need to be quickly arrested and prosecuted.
Merle Thowe
Loveland