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Workers miss support

Dear Editor, Nearly 60 million people may say they would join a union today, if they could. The problem? Big business and woefully outdated laws continue to undermine the right to collectively bargain. Just take the “Right To Work” Laws, for example; Across the country, anti-worker legislators are relentlessly fighting to pass right to work, which has a more than 70-year track record of lowering wages, reducing benefits, and making work more dangerous. Right to work is a Jim Crow relic that was designed to keep white and black workers apart, playing on our worst fears to keep ...

School of thought

Dear Editor, A San Francisco news item of March 19 states that “as America reels from its latest spate of deadly hate crimes and racism, educators and civil rights leaders in California called on the state Board of Education to approve the nation’s first state-wide model ethnic studies curriculum for high school students.” This in my opinion will be a massive waste of resources with little if any positive results. It will be, if approved, just another step in educators supporting families plus trying to educate their children. The problem is not the lack of teaching in schools, ...

How many phone numbers are there?

Dear Editor: I would like to address the issue of bringing in another area code. It seems like technology is going backwards. When I was a kid, we had a short number like 859J. Then it got longer and went to RA3-4209 and then to 723-4209. Now they want to make it longer yet. Why is this? I would like to call the attention to mathematicians and math teachers about this issue. I cannot believe that all numbers going with 814 are exhausted. Unless I am mistaken, it seems like there would be a lot more number combinations than there are phones in the 814 area code. I ...

Morning in America

Dear Editor: At the instant it is mourning. If it can happen, it will happen. At the moment no one knows the point of inflection when it occurs, but it does. What will happen, by year end, 2021, Joe Biden, et al. will be removed from offices. One knows such to be true via three levels of critical path, to be good enough, not just good. Level I. A case for so doing exists. At best, media, “election irregularities.” Facts: suppressed overwhelming voter/election fraud, Joe Biden and company are not legitimate. Level II. A platform insurmountable for its removal. Said instrument, ...

Speed is a major factor in car crashes

Dear Editor, Many people use statistics to prove a point favorable to their position on a topic, but some fact-checking can shed more light on those statistics. A case in point is the letter from Tom McCarey, writing as a representative of the National Motorists Association in the March 30 Times Observer, in which he voices his opposition to legislation allowing community police departments to use RADAR in speed enforcement. He states that according to data from the NHTSA, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (which he misidentifies incidentally), that only 1.6% of ...

Vote no on bill

Dear Editor: Contact your Representative and tell them to vote no on House Bill 606, RADAR for municipal police. RADAR is only for money, not safety: this bill is a tax on every driver. What is the motivation for giving municipal police RADAR? The RADAR lobby says in order to make it easier to enforce speed limits. But the speed limits are politically set at unsafe speeds of between 8 to 16 mph slower than the speeds people safely drive, to make it easy to write tickets. The House needs to put an end to the enforcement-for-profit-not-safety racket that has infected Harrisburg. ...